Earlier this week I had the pleasure(?) of popping in to Tenby's Famous £1 £1.20 60p Shop* in Tudor Square. I'd been in there a couple of times before - it's a little cramped but the walls and shelves are brimming with some really useful things from DIY hardware to stationery.

* The price went up in January due to the VAT increase (although if that was really the case it'd be the £1.03 shop) and now they're closing down one of the two shops in Tenby so everything's half price.

If you're one of the 'lucky' 'fraction of a percent' that have been selected to test-drive a new Facebook feature where the live feed becomes a realtime stream along the right hand panel then no doubt you'll have initially thought it was just you, a Facebook bug, and something to temporarily put up with.

Then you gradually realise that it's a new layout "feature".

Sonic the Hedgehog turns 20 today!

I've already posted a few blog posts about my old secondary school, Ryeish Green School in Reading, which closed last year.

The victim of political bitchfighting in the local council created a storm of anxiety over the school's future, causing parents to send prospective students elsewhere. The Conservative-led council then used this point to successfully close the school. That was the official reason given anyway, but it's pretty well known that Wokingham Borough Council didn't like the school having a catchment area that included parts of neighbouring Reading Borough Council's less-affluent residents.

Since my last post about the school, almost a year ago, there have been some interesting developments, namely "free schools" - a piece of Conservative "Big Society" policy that allows groups to open their own school, with full state funding but without the need for the local education authority.

If you were watching the BBC News Channel earlier you may have spotted this on the early release of tomorrow's (Wednesday 25 May 2011) Daily Mirror front page...

All looks reasonably ok there, but if you take a closer look at the Natalie Cassidy story on the left you'd have seen this...