24/7 news on just about every platform imaginable. Yesterday I talked about football back in the 1970s and was reminded in those days how difficult it was to get results.
I well remember telephoning a special results number where you had to listen through minutes of results before getting the one you wanted. Now you just log onto the internet and get a minute by minute rundown on any match.
And this year the ZX Spectrum is celebrating its 40th birthday. I remember having one of these machines. The games they had were very very basic but this was something new.
I remember the Spectrum had wobbly rubber keys and you could programme (or that probably should be program) games. I used to buy magazines that had page after page of programming in tiny type. You had to input all this and if you got as much as one character wrong the blessed game wouldn't work. Games also came on cassettes that you put into a cassette player which was attached to the Spectrum. There was a horrible screeching sound as the programme want into the Spectrum and once again it might or might not work.
And who remembers those bat and balls video games where you moved a bat up and down to hit the moving sphere or ball? When I left my job in Beccles, Suffolk, to move to the Midlands my fellow workers wanted to buy me a gift and chose between two that they thought would be appropriate. One was an electronic tennis game for the television and the other was a engraved tankard.
They went for the tankard which disappointed me at the time. But now I realise it was very much the correct choice.
I don't remember what happened to my ZX Spectrum. It may well be in a cupboard collecting dust somewhere.
Another thought came into my head. Who remembers sending phone signals designed to give a message but not cost anything.
I well remember going on a long journey and giving three rings of a phone to let relatives know that we had arrived safely.
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I try to keep away from politics. I really do. I know it upsets some people when I make political comments but sometimes I just can't help myself.
Getting up yesterday morning, I turned on the news to hear two stories. One was the lack of support by the Government for HRT treatment for women and the second was about radiation problems in the past for men subjected to nuclear tests.
Apparently Boris Johnson has promised to support both of these things. He has stood up in Parliament to promise to support them and - in true Boris fashion - has done absolutely nothing.
The MP talking about the HRT situation urged people to contact their MP to try to ensure that treatment for the menopause is made more readily available. Only problem here in South Norfolk is that our MP Richard Bacon doesn't respond to contact from his constituents.
I am still waiting for a reply to an e-mail I sent him last November basically asking him why he doesn't reply to letters/e-mails sent to him. So I won't be holding my breathe that any action will be taken on these or many other issues.