Podcast

Just a quick one. It's podcast time again although my podcast site seems to have gone all to cock. I'm working on it. In the meantime, if you haven't done so already, you can subscribe from the podcast site, via iTunes. Just click on the 'podcast' link at the top of the YBATYD blog page. The podcast is available to you now.

It's been a busy weekend as we went to see the panto on Friday followed by the traumatic experience of Christmas shopping yesterday followed by the slightly more enjoyable activity of going to see the new James Bond film, Casino Royale today. It was really pretty great although a million miles away from the glittery, cross-dressing extravaganza that the panto was.

You can't beat watching hairy blokes in dresses, dancing though.

Postings, pubs and pies

Ooh my posting is slipping again. Sorry about that. I've got no excuses. Anyway, as I've got your interest I just wanted to say that I've had some nice feedback about the podcast. Now I know it's not the best (yet) but I shall persevere and hopefully you'll be laughing. Or tittering. Or smirking - slightly.

Please let me know if you have any problems listening to the podcast, either on the podcast website or via iTunes. There is actually an old podcast feed on iTunes which I need to try and get deleted. the correct one has the (currently two) most up to date shows on and had a 5 star feedback on there too!

Well, time for some more wine. I'm still savouring the gorgeous salad dressing I knocked up earlier. God I'm a talented individual. In fact I must tell you my recipe for homity pie sometime. It's a classic, old English dish and one I'd never seen in a restaurant until Friday night when a load of us went to a renowned pub for a hearty meal. The food on offer was amazing and the setting is pure, old-fashioned English pub. And no, none of it is fake. It's a truly wonderful setting and still full of locals as well as the 'outsiders' who have come to sample the highly rated food. However, the most memorable thing for me was the appearance of homity pie on the menu. I was so chuffed, although I didn't order it in case it was better than my own version!

So thank you to the The Bear inn at Alderwasley in Derbyshire. It was worth the long journey to get there and any pub that serves food including wild boar and homity pie is alright by me.

Cheers.

Podcast at last!

It's here! The YBATYD Podcast has landed. Actually, it arrived two weeks ago and those eagle-eyed readers amongst you may have seen the subtle little link to the podcast site at the top right of this page.

Episode 1, however, is really just a pilot show with no real content. Mind you it's worth a listen. Episode 2 is far better. It's even got a proper structure to it and everything! Now the YBATYD Podcast will be broadcast every two weeks (or as near as I can muster) and will be in two parts.

Part one will be a review and update of all the recent postings from this 'ere blog. Part two will be an exciting look at some of the amusing, weird and bizarre stories from the web as well as any strange websites I think you may be interested in. You lucky people.

Now there are a couple of ways to listen to the YBATYD Podcast. Either way, you firstly need to click the podcast link on this page. This will take you to the YBATYD Podcast website. From here you can either choose to listen to any of the shows directly from the site or you can click on the Subscribe button which will then subscribe you to the show via iTunes. How chuffing marvellous is that?

There really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Podcast ... possibly?

How much drivel can you stand? If it's not bad enough reading the pages of tripe that I churn out on this 'ere blog, I'm considering a YBATYD podcast. I actually did a couple of trial podcasts a while ago but having just taken delivery of iLife 06 for my Mac, I can now produce something decent. Er, I hope.

Now the thing is, a)who would want to hear it? b)will it have enough content? c)can I be arsed? I reckon I'd have to rely on plenty of humorous stories and info from t'internet alongside my own creative genius. Ooops - modesty alert. Well, I'm working on some bits 'n' bobs right now, so if things work out then I may well give it a go. Of course the YBATYD blog will continue whatever happens, so don't go chucking yourselves of bridges/tall buildings/coffee tables just yet. Crikey - I do like putting pressure on myself don't I?

It's not easy being a hero.

Podcast baby!

Oh yeah. My horrendously intermittent podcast is back - well for July anyway and you can hear it now. The slight downside is that it's really just a ten minute advert for the You're Born and Then You Die blog - which you're already reading.

Never mind eh? Just subscribe using the little Subscribe in iTunes button on the right of this page and you're sorted. If you don't have iTunes (you're a simpleton) you can catch all the shows at Podcast.net. Just click on the title of this posting.

Enjoy the podcast and just wait until the next one which will be even better. Mainly because it won't just be me reading out some posts from this blog!

You lucky people.

Oh happy, happy, joy joy

Marvellous. In my last post, depression was my friend due to the incredibly miserable weather. Well, the sun is shining in England and life is good. Agreed, it's still freezing cold, windy and dark by 5pm. However, the sun has been beaming down on my balding head and endorphines have been coursing through my brain like HP sauce through a sieve. As a result I am one happy bunny. Also, my big birthday is only a week away and despite it being a 'big' one, I'm still as excited as a small child at the prospects of presents and beer. Yes, even as a child I would enjoy a pint or two of fine, room-temperature ale. Roll on the big day.

All this excitement has been caused by nothing more than the sun. Isn't that brilliant? Only one thing could upset me now - not getting any comments in response to my posts. Well, would you believe it? I have! I'm so chuffed. And what's even better - my valued respondent had actually been listening to my podcast. So thank you so much for your very positive feedback. It's really very much appreciated. One downside - the next podcast will be a few weeks as my free podcast software has 'expired' so I need to actually pay for some new software. But I'm going to re-mortgage the cat and perhaps sell all my clothes in order to pay for it.

Don't despair, I'm not going anywhere.