Tom Blogs » radio http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:58:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Water powered shower radio http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/2011/03/24/water-powered-shower-radio/ http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/2011/03/24/water-powered-shower-radio/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:34:30 +0000 Tom http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/?p=1570 Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? A radio which connects to your shower and is powered by the water passing through it. The only problem could be if it slows down the flow of water, but apart from that it’s an ingenious idea.

You can see who sells it at www.google.co.uk/products or read more about it and it’s inventor on the guardian site: www.guardian.co.uk and see other products from the same firm here: www.tangogroup.net

]]> http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/2011/03/24/water-powered-shower-radio/feed/ 0 From Baldock, it's retro text the nation http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/2009/07/03/from-baldock-its-retro-text-the-nation/ http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/2009/07/03/from-baldock-its-retro-text-the-nation/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:50:14 +0000 Tom http://blog.tomsteel.co.uk/?p=858 I like to listen to Adam and Joe, but I listen to the podcast, not the live show. I have never joined in on their text the nation feature but many have, and they have a special jingle for it which is impressively composed and sung by the two of them:

Original jingle
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In last weeks podcast they feature a specialy composed version sung by an amateur choir from Baldock in Hertfordshire which is a town I know fairly well (or at least has a pub I know very well as you can see here, here, here and here). Unfortunately for the Choir Adam and Joe were not very impressed, you can listen to the choirs efforts and the following critique here:

The Baldock Choir
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Those poor 11-50 something year olds.

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