Honestly, I bought a new DAB radio yesterday but something was wrong with it. It worked fine with the mains plugged in but as soon as I tried the 4 size 'AA' batteries, nothing! So I tried my rechargables in it, nothing, I even went out and bought some duracell extra super dooper powered nicam cells and still nothing. So, I took it back today and had to get a more expensive one as the original model I got had sold out. Not to worry I thought, but when I got home to try out the batteries, the damned thing takes 4 size 'C', so I need to go back out and buy some of them as nothing in my house takes a size 'C' anymore. And all this so I can listen to 'Planet Rock' whilst lying in the garden
 
It was with great sadness that I threw out a load of old clothes this morning. It wasn't that they didn't fit me anymore, it was more the history of the items that cast a furrowed line upon my fevered brow. The suit I used to wear to work, the old blue jeans that had gone through so many adventures, the lightwear beige golf slacks that I'd played the 'Old Course' in and the winter hooded parka that had saved me from freezing to death at Knockhill race curcuit one cold November day.  All those memories, lost, like tears in rain. Turfed out ignominiously in an old black bin bag