Eunos Chump

Paid my first ever visit to the Beaulieu autojumble today.  I had to go alone as nobody else fancied walking around acres of land for hours on end, looking at obscure fragments of cars.  No problem though, it left more room in the car for bringing home crap! First tempting bit of tat was this stuffed badger umbrella holder... great for infuriating the Mrs and terrifying the boy and animals.  It would have been a mistake.  There was a fox too, you can see it in the background.  And some cow skins.  Lovely for decorating the house. How about a missile?  I'm not sure what it acutally is but it was ace.  There were quite a few cars for sale too, I'd assumed they'd be overpriced and some of them certainly didn't disappoint (£10K for a late 90's E430?), but there was serious temptation for the person with £3K in their pocket.  Nice 80's S-class Benz, '95 Jaguar XJR (supercharged 4-litre V8), plus some mint Austin ...

It was my birthday recently, so I put my cash towards this portable media player: It's a Samsung YP-R1 and look, it's got a gingerbread man and a coffee cup! Neither of them are any more than animated icons but you don't get either on the leading competitor (the name of which I cannot bring myself to type).  It was quite a bit cheaper than that other device too, and has twice the memory.  The interface is a tad fiddly though, and it took me some time to find the option to shuffle tracks at random - such basic stuff should be on the home screen rather than daft icons.  Another useless feature is the Beat DJ app, which lets you put sound effects and stuff over your tracks.  I had a few minutes fun putting cliched samples such as 'ahh yeah!' and handclaps over Mozart's Requiem, but I doubt I'll ever use it again. It does support BBC iPlayer though, and I've watched Mad Men on it this evening (ignoring the 50" TV in the same room).  I love ...