Under todays milk delivery I found a note from the milkman. I have read it several times but have decided it must be cryptic like a crossword. See if you understand it.

Dear customer,

In order to maintain the efficiency and allow the business to increase, it will become necessary for certain delivery days for milk to be dropped.

In the next few weeks, Wednesday’s milk will be delivered on Tuesdays. This will involve extra milk being delivered on Tuesdays.

Also, to allow me to visit my son in Cornwall, every 4th Saturday will be delivered on Friday, on these occasions Wednesday’s milk will be as normal. Newspaper customers will still receive papers as normal.

There will be a trial of this next week, with no milk deliveries on Tuesday next week, and extra milk will be delivered on Monday.

Thank you again for your custom

What do you make of it?

I was looking for some public domain images today and came across some World War II posters. Most were quite entertaining to read (Although at the time they were taken very seriously), and made me glad that we are not suffering food shortages and rationing. Not yet anyway.

The poster below made me wonder if we will end up like this again with the price of petrol the way it is. Here in the UK, petrol is currently £1.18 a litre ($2.32) and it is madness. In the USA it is only about $4 a gallon which seems a little unfair on the British really.

Maybe we are destined to go back to the horse and cart, at least carrots and hay are still affordable.

Have you been following the latest series of Britain’s got talent?

If you answered no, you have missed some cracking entertainment with original acts such as signature and Kate and Gin wowing the crowds. I have to say I was more than a little surprised at Kate and Gin getting through when put up against the singer Dean….. I can’t remember his surname. He was very good but do you not think people are getting a bit bored with singers taking all the TV airtime?

Joseph, Oliver, Nancy…. Tom, Dick, Harry…. why doesn’t Lloyd Webber pay for his own auditions and do it in private instead of making the public endure it. I know some of you will adore the musical shows but they are getting a bit too much. I’m not sure if I can stand a full week of the Britain’s got Talent judges. Piers Morgan, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell.

My wife however will be riveted to the TV all week… No change there then

Signature audition can be seen below

and Kate and Gin

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Quite by chance I found pandora.com, a site offering to create a personal radio station for me. I am always a little skeptical about freebies but this had a very strong appeal and I gave it a go. Well, I am now completely sold on this site and have hardly touched my “old hat” internet radio sat in the corner. I will tell you a little about the site pandora.com and why I think it is a winner.

The site is incredibly easy to use, is flash based and loads quickly and cleanly. The music is streamed at 128 kbps so you will definitely need a fast broadband connection to enjoy the site properly. You are greeted with a very simple interface that even I found simple to use. One click on the “Create a new station” button presents you with a text input box asking for a choice of either song or artist. Once your choice is entered the site then creates a radio station for you. It will match similar types of song or artist to your choice and play them accordingly. I found it to be remarkably accurate to my musical tastes and rarely turn it off - in fact it is playing right now.

The songs and artists are chosen using details from the Music Genome Project and it works very well as a free internet radio format. After a short while you are asked to register (free) to continue listening to your music choices. I was disappointed to see that this feature is currently only available to US residents but managed to circumvent this problem by Googling a US Zip code and entering it on the registration form. The site now works perfectly with no cnnection or streaming problems at all.

As each song plays you are shown a thumbnail of the album that the song came from along with options to give the song a thumbs up or down, bookmark the song and also purchase the song/album from Amazon or itunes. There are various other options available to users. These include the facility to share a song or station with a friend, find shared stations and use pandora with Skype. I have not explored the Skype option as yet.

To finish, I have to say I am very impressed with pandora.com and will continue to use the site as long as it is available. If you like a few tunes while you work, you could do a lot worse than visiting pandora.com