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I’ve got a Bluetooth receiver plugged in to my amp via one of its phono inputs that I connect my iPad to for streaming Spotify etc. It was basically plug and play and does the job. As Richard says plenty to pick from on Amazon

Call My Agent! on Netflix a quality French comedy series

Green Day - American Idiot

Well they annoyed me late last month, then again yesterday and even more today, the pile of steaming excrement that are Ryan Air. Fair enough it's not their fault they had to cancel my flight back from Ibiza that I should have been on tomorrow but it's completely their fault that they are doing...

Pink Floyd - PULSE Concert from Earls Court 1994 being streamed on YouTube as a fundraiser

The Friends Of Mr. Cairo - Jon & Vangelis

Monkey Wrench - The Foo Fighters Perfect music to listen to whilst WFH [emoji41]

Or you could go down the 2 mouse route, 1 for the boring stuff and 1 for the gaming bit, rather than 1 mouse to rule them all. That's what I now have, an 8 year old Logitech Performance MX, which I think is the predecessor to or model below the MX Master, and has been a superb bit of kit...

To make this whole sorry saga worse the 'free parking' is only for Doctors and nurses at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh not the Pharmacists etc. who work there

If you are looking for old games to play then it might worth having a rummage in the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/software which has loads of old games you can play. MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, C64 etc. I haven't tried it but it's supposed to be fun :LOL:

Apparently in parts of Spain in lockdown people were renting their dogs out so people had an excuse to go out

According to one of the pharmacies the doctor’s surgery my wife works at deals with there are a couple of reasons for wait times going up. People are doing the equivalent of panic buying their medication by asking for a repeat well in advance of when they need it e.g. got 3 months supply a...

Likewise I didn’t know he was such an accomplished photographer or even interested in it until I saw the article in the Guardian. Some of his photos are on his Instagram account _kennyrogers

If you want to see on the TV exactly the same as on the laptop screen then really you should be be selecting ‘Duplicate desktop’ Extend desktop doesn’t duplicate the laptop display, it’s usually used to allow something like PowerPoint to be displayed on another screen but controlled from the...

Discovering that the sandwiches I’d bought at Sainsbury’s Local in Newcastle railway station on my way home tonight were not just cold but actually frozen. The initial clue was the lettuce in the first bite crunching when I bit into it and then not bending when I checked it