Battery - and more coverage of Chip Week!!

I love my phone, but it does have a tendency to overestimate the battery capacity.

20 hours remaining?  It'll eat that in time it takes me to take a photo.

And for some reason the last 10% lasts an amazingly long time (in comparison to the other 90%) - it'll hang on 3% for ages while you frantically do whatever it is you need to do on your phone before the battery dies.

In other news, chip week (french fry week for US readers) is now over, and I hope you took part via fried potato consumption.  I beg you to watch the below fantastic video from a chippie in Birmingham, it is fantastic.

 

 

And while I'm talking about videos, I've published a new one today - I say published because it's been made for about two weeks, but I have been really quite busy lately, plus my PC has died so I'm resorting to using my partners computer.  In this one I put on a variety of professional-quality accents and invite you to guess what they were.  Do let me know how you got on!

 

 

I hope you've been enjoying my series of interviews with YouTubers on my blog, I've really enjoyed doing them and engaging with some other (far more talented!) creators.  I am in talks with two more people about interviews but they haven't been finalised yet so there may be a slight delay before they appear on here.

 

If you haven't seen them already check the interviews out below:

TeaMakerJason



Brutall

TheNickCrompton

 

It's Chip Week!

It's Chip Week!

To kick off a week of chips, I've made a video about my dinner tonight - the polish delicacy, Devolay - with chips!!

For more info about Chip Week, head over to http://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk - they like chips there, and all variety of potatoes.  On their Chip Week microsite there's even competitions to take part in.

As an aside, I had chips for lunch too.

With scraps, no less.

I love Chip Week.

Chip week is coming! (aka French Fries)

I have no idea why I took this photo.

And it's out of date now as my beard has disappeared.

Anyway...

Did you know that it is Chip Week from the 17th to 23rd of February 2014?

In support of chip week, I will be eating lots of chips.  Not because I enjoy them, but because I believe in a British chip.  If only because a chip from overseas (a french fry should I say?) will have gone cold by the time it gets here.

Okay - I love chips.  I love thick chips from the chippie, accompanied with a piece of battered haddock, doused in so much salt and vinegar that if you breathe the air nearby you choke with the strength of vinegar.

I love the thinner fries, with salt or ideally chip spice (it's a Hull thing).  Or the really dinky thing ones you get with a manufactured burger from McDonalds - yes, it's maybe not the healthiest thing in the world for you, but it's cheap and it's tasty, and now and then that's what you want.

And chips dunked in thick chip shop gravy are gorgeous.  Coated in ketchup, or even salad cream - not my first choice, although salad cream is surprisingly good on a bacon sandwich - tartare sauce is good on chips too.  What's your favourite chip dish?

For more information, and to vote for your favourite fish & chip shop, head over to http://chips.lovepotatoes.co.uk/

While I'm writing this post, I just wanted to say that my blog posts might be a bit erratic for the immediate future - a relative has been taken into hospital over the weekend and I'm not quite sure how things are going to pan out, but it is likely to result in some changes to my routine, in the short-term at any rate.  I do aim to blog 3-4 times a week (and currently I've actually got a few spare posts half-written to give me some space) but I'll have to see how things go.  The reason for blogging is for myself - I like to write, and I like to be creative, I know perfectly well that I'm not going to become the most popular site on the Internet, or make a living through these scribblings, it's a hobby I enjoy (and thank you very much everyone who does take the time to read them!) - but ultimately it is a hobby, and I may need to put it on the back burner just for a little while.  Hopefully not, hopefully I can keep blogging as normal, or nearly as normal, but I don't quite know what's around the corner.