Ordinary Gweilo

A few odds and ends.

Firstly, I am a little surprised to report that Henry was correct, and the junk faxes have stopped arriving since I registered my fax number with the “Do Not Call” people at PCCW. My main fear was that logging my number might actually increase the number of faxes, but fortunately that is not the case.

After my piece on April Fools, I came across of a copy of The Guardian for April 1st, and was almost fooled by their story about Peter Mandleson being in line to become the Chairman of the BBC. By the time I read the paper it had already been announced that Michael Grade had been given the job, so my first thought was that The Guardian had been fed incorrect information. However, closer reading of the story revealed that it was a joke, and the accompanying picture of him looking like a man possessed was also a bit of a clue, as were references to some of his ideas (more shows about dogs and the Today programme starting earlier). If the article was ever on their website it was taken down after April 1.

As for tailor-made furniture, things haven’t got much better. They came back to finish the job, but didn’t, and then several weeks later they returned and fixed some of the problems, but there are still two tasks outstanding. Quite disappointing.