When are ‘No 1 Crisps’ not #1?

I suffered through a packet of “John John No 1 ‘Deep Blue Sea Salt'” crips for you.

Let’s start with the basic questions:

The world’s worst crips?
  1. What the heck is ‘deep blue sea salt’…?*
  2. Is it possible to buy a smaller bag of crisps? Is it possible to even make a smaller bag of crisps?
  3. Why do they taste so bloody sour?

* Apparently it is “from the coastlines of the Middle East”, which doesn’t sound very deep blue to me.

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Tech: Sonos Play 1 - one year on

Sonos Play

After a year with Sonos Play, what do I think?

To be honest, we almost never use it, preferring to play music via Apple TV. Given how frustrating navigating through AppleTV’s music app can be, that’s a fairly damming statement about the Sonos – or should I say about the Sonos’ software, which is the real problem. Because the player doesn’t really fit into the ecosystem, you have to do things differently to use it, and well, we don’t. Continue reading “Tech: Sonos Play 1 – one year on”

Magnum Signature Chocolate

Surprisingly bitter for a milk chocolate, with a short-ish sharp and intense sour aftertaste.  Ok mouth-feel and crumb.

Don’t like it.

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Apple: Apple's tone-deaf iPhone 6 battery replacement announcement

When is a replacement programme not actually a replacement programme?

Following a fairly justified public/media backlash about how Apple handles/manages battery life on iPhone 6s, just after Christmas Apple allegedly ‘solved’ the problem with a ‘message to customers about iPhone batteries and performance‘ which ends with an offer to set up a programme to start replacing batteries at a more reasonable cost – starting at the end of January 2018. Continue reading “Apple: Apple’s tone-deaf iPhone 6 battery replacement announcement”