Full Metal Wheelbarrow

Baldrick the Roomba is no more :-(

He's been behaving oddly for a while, not holding a charge and not cleaning properly, so we sent him off to the Roomba Mending People to see if they could make him better, but unfortunately he would have needed a brain transplant (PCB problems, for people more techy than me) and was beyond economical repair. Poor Baldrick.

The nice Roomba Mending People have offered us a part exchange for a B grade (ex-display or mended) Roomba 530 for a reasonable price though, so Baldrick the Second will be arriving tomorrow and there'll soon be a new little round thing to hide under the furniture and terrorise the cats.

The Roomba is dead. Long Live the Roomba! :-)

I've just seen on the BBC news channel, some of the opening ceremony for an obscenely expensive hotel complex in Dubai.

$7 million dollars worth of fireworks.

Is it just me, or is it really quite appalling to spend so much money on needless frivolities when there are people dying in Zimbabwe and Congo because they lack the basic necessities of life?