Richard Hobbs

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Browsing Posts published in December, 2008

I’ll start this post with “Minstresers”…

As you can see, this is a photograph of a Galaxy “Minstrel”, and a “Malteser” (made by Mars, I think).
Individually, they are great. Let’s not forget that fact.
However, together, eaten at the same time, they are amazing! We discovered this at University and decided to call the combined treat, the [...]

Last Monday night, I attended the monthly AJS & Matchless Owners Club Fenrunners section meeting and among the various things discussed and announced was the “Clubman of the Year 2008″ award (shown to the right).
Just so you are aware, this award is exclusive to the Fenrunners section of the owners club, and although I’m sure [...]

Wasteful packaging is something that kinda bugs me. To put it into perspective though, I don’t lose any sleep over it, and I don’t find myself thinking about it at random times during the day, but when I see an instance of wasteful packaging, it is slightly annoying.
The other day, a work colleague ordered a [...]

There are two things I’d like to talk about in this post… my Xbox 360 games console (which broke on Friday!) and the new(ish) game “Dead Space“.
As I’m sure you know by now, I’m rather addicted to my Xbox 360 games console (see NXE and my addiction to gaming!). On Friday night, however, it broke!!!!!!! What a [...]