Okay firstly when digitial TV came out I was over joyed I though it was a fantasic idea, now I can  get channel 5 and all the other crazy cable channel, it would be like living in America. But it hasn’t really worked out that well. Yes I can get a whole load of new channels, yes it is a bit like how I would imagine living in America is like, constant reruns of Scrubs, american who’s line is it anyway and CSI.

The problem is quality when the signal was bad on anoglog, the picture would get a little worse, when the signal is weak on digital the damm thing stops. It just stops, some time just the image, sometime the sound, sometimes both. But it is completely unwatchable and depending on the channel it can be ever five or six seconds. This can completely destory certain programmes, exspecaily comedy, for jokes to work you really need to know the whole set up and the punch line, and timing is kind of important don’t you think. 

Anyway this has driven me to work damm it, the last two page I put together are anti aging products and endoscopic brow lift, and this was done whilst the TV was spluttering.

Don’t get me started on cushions.

OK, here’s the thing. So I’m buying this day bed, it’s brilliant, probably the best thing to ever come into my life. But it needs that kind of squishy, creature comforts sofa type feel to it. The solution was clear and simple- Big cushions, soft fabric, I was thinking maybe three, colour co-ordinated with the duvet cover.

Oh, if only it had been that simple. Here’s the thing about cushions. In the world there are many different cushions. They come in a variety of shapes and shades. This is so that the consumer has a choice about which cushion he or she can purchase. Except, and this is the important thing, this is very important, the only type of cushion NOT available is the type of cushion that looks even remotely like the one you want.

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I am not exaggerating when I say that I have been everywhere in the English speaking world looking for he perfect cushion. I’ve had cushion related adventures that would make your hair stand on end. I even once met this galaxies queen of cushions, who is identified once in each 3 generations by her enormous cushion needing hips.Yet in the fifty thousand miles I have journeyed across space and time I have seen nothing but cushions which hate me as much as I hate them.

I think it’s because cushions are quite a girly purchase, there’s something very artsy, cutesy, “ooh-this-matches-the-lampshade” about cushions. So cushion designers don’t feel the need to come up with anything sensible like, say, a blue cushion. Cushions come in “duck egg” and “aqua” or they have blue stripes interwoven with brown tassels and lace dangly bits. You ask for a simple object in a straightforward colour and suddenly you are sucked into the world of mincing fabric swaddled frippery.

In the end I went with my first instinct and shopped on line. And you know what, I do like my new cushions, I do. I’m looking at them now. Only thing is, they’re just ever so slightly, in a certain light, missing something. I worry that it may be tassels. I hope I’m wrong.

Prince Harry has just returned from 10 weeks at the front line in Afghanistan, something he had expressed a personal wish to do. He served with his regiment the Blue’s and Royals, part of the Household Cavalry, more normally associated with ceremonial duties in London.

Following much debate as to whether he would be able to serve in Helmand Province common sense prevailed and he carried out his duties, along with the other members of his regiment in a way that would be expected of any serving officer. It’s sad that a leak by an American web site has broken the media blackout, forcing a premature end to his tour of duty. 

Flying home to RAF Brize Norton along with two soldiers injured by an exploding mine. Prince Harry humbly belittled his own experiences having returned with no scars and referred to his two travelling companions as the real heroes. Although now separated from the troops he commands, I am sure that the experiences of combat that they have shared over the last 10 weeks will only strengthen the bond between them.

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