We should never have gone!

23Mar20

Timing is everything and we picked the wrong time to visit Julie’s parents in New Zealand.  We haven’t been back there together for seven years. We made a big mistake, we should never have traveled all of that way and I’m truly sorry for the stress and anger we caused with certain members of Julie’s […]

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Tags: Air New Zealand, Auckland Airport, Australia, Boris Johnson, Captain Scarlet, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Disaster Movie, Graham Mack, Heathrow, Hitchin, Jacinda Arden, LAX, LHR, London, Los Angeles, Mysterons, National Express, New Zealand, Premiership, Self-Isolation, Singapore, Singapore Airlines, Trump

Unclean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19Mar20

  We are being told to self-isolate in New Zealand. Although we got into the country just before the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, brought in compulsory 14 day isolation for visitors, she’s now suggesting we should self-isolate anyway. The reason we made this trip to Julie’s home town for the first time in seven years […]

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Tags: 14 days, Air New Zealand, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Jacinda Ardern, lepers, London, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Self-Isolation, Singapore, Singapore Airlines, United States, Vancouver

When You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going – Winston Churchill.

13Mar20

The Global Coronavirus Pandemic is just one of a series of unfortunate events that Julie and I are dealing with right now. Things started to go wrong in early February when we realised the extent of the COVID 19 outbreak in China. The first part of our holiday, which we’d booked months earlier, had us […]

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Tags: 777 300, Air New Zealand, BBC, Blog, Burbank, Coronavirus, COVID 19, feedback, Fix Radio, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, journalism, LAX, Los Angeles, Media, News, Radio, Radio.Fix Radio, Travel, USA, Worldwide Radio Summit

Bag To The Future

07Apr18

I think I’ve come up with a great business idea. If you’re an entrepreneur, you should steal this. We’re moving to a smaller flat soon, so we’re trying to get rid of as much stuff as we can. Everything has to pass the, “Do we REALLY need this?” test. So far we’ve sold my Dr […]

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Tags: bags, Blog, Dr Who, entrepreneur, feedback, Fender, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, marketing, Marshall, Media, Music, News, Radio, rental, Samsonite, Suitcase, Travel

Betrayed On Entebbe

14Feb18

I should be in Africa right now. In May I got an email from a bloke called “James” asking me how much I would charge to speak at “Radio Week” in Uganda. Apparently it’s a three day conference for people working at radio stations in East Africa. It’s taking place right now at the Imperial […]

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Tags: Blog, BOBf, Cats, Computer, Entebbe, feedback, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, Kampla, Media, medical, News, Next Radio, Nigerian Prince, Photography, Radio, Radio Week Uganda, Royal Institution, Vacinations, work

The Storm With No Name

19Jan18

The Met Office outdid themselves this week. They are useless at predicting the weather. That’s a shame because that’s the only thing they have to do. To try and distract us from how bad they are at their only job, a couple of years ago, they announced that they’re going to give names to storms. […]

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Tags: Blog, Computer, feedback, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, journalism, Media, Met Office, News, Radio, Storm, Travel

Budget Airlines

31Oct17

Are airlines cutting too many corners to save money? If someone in my car hasn’t fastened their seatbelt, a light comes on and beeping starts that doesn’t stop until everyone is belted up. On the plane back from Iceland recently, I noticed that planes don’t have that light and beeper. Just before you take off, […]

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Tags: Airlines, Blog, feedback, Google, Iceland, Inspiration, Internet, journalism, Media, News, Politics, Radio, Travel

boozyJet

16Aug17

The British can’t handle their drink. They get drunk any chance they can and even brag about it. They drink the most, when they’re on holiday. The first chance they get is at the airport. When I catch a flight early in the morning, I’m amazed at how packed the bar is. About 270m passengers […]

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Tags: Airports, Alcohol, Australia, BOBfm, Britain, CAA, Drinking, Easyjet, Graham Mack, NZ, Ryanair

Apocalypse Yesterday

10May17

Like a “zombie apocalypse”. That’s how one Twitter user described scenes at London’s Stansted airport yesterday.  Reports today say it was chaotic and some passengers even fainted. It was all because an X-ray machine broke down. It took nearly four hours to fix it. Stansted is the fourth busiest airport in the UK and is […]

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Tags: Airport Security, Blog, feedback, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, News, Radio, Stansted, Travel

Stop Taking The Tablets!

22Mar17

stly  Airport security checks are a joke. Now there’s going to be a muslim laptop ban. When you fly to Britain from the mostly muslim countries of Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, you’ll not be allowed to bring a laptop or tablet computer onto the plane with you. You’ll have to put […]

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Tags: Airport, Airport Security, Blog, BOBfm, Britain, check in, Computer, Egypt, feedback, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, Islam, Laptop Ban, Lebanon, muslim, News, Politics, Radio, Richard Reid, Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, Underwear Bomber, x-ray

They shouldn’t be looking for the black box flight recorders from EgyptAir MS804

21May16

When my laptop died a couple of years ago, I lost loads of important stuff. It was a wake-up call, now I don’t store ANYTHING on any of my computers. I only ever save stuff to Google Drive, the cloud storage system. Next time any of my computers crash or is destroyed, at home or […]

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Tags: 2CR, AFTRS, Aircheck, Black Box, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Computers, EgyptAir, EgyptAir MS804, Google Drive, Graham Mack, London Marathon, Mediterranean, MH370, Radio, Travel

How an air-conditioning mechanic in Sydney Australia became an award winning broadcaster in Britain; Part 219.

16May16

I didn’t make the best first impression with my producer when I got my first BBC job. In May 2010, I started as the Breakfast Presenter at BBC Wiltshire, based in Swindon. The local football club, Swindon Town, had just made it to the League One playoffs and were playing Millwall at Wembley. A few […]

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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BBC, BBC Wiltshire, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Central Coast, Radio, Swindon, Swindon Town, television

My John Lennon Connection.

28Feb16

I thought I had no real connection to John Lennon until now… For most of the 80s and 90s I lived in Australia and New Zealand and used to impress the locals with the fact that I was born in the same hospital as John Lennon. I was the frontman in a 60s cover band […]

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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Beatles, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, John Lennon, Liverpool, Liverpool Airport, Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Mark Lewisohn, New Zealand, Radio, Travel

UN-Changed Climate

30Nov15

A couple of years ago, Prince Charles visited Stevenage. He was chauffeured around in his own personal Range Rover, which drove up from London. Charles wasn’t in it at the time, he flew to Stevenage in a helicopter. This week, Prince Charles gave a speech at the UN Climate Change Conference and told a room […]

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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, carbon, Climate Change, emmissions, Graham Mack, hypocrites, London, Paris, Prince Charles, Radio, Range Rover, Republican, Skype, Stevenage, UN Climate Conference

First Time I Met The Blues

29Nov15

I was the victim of a crime on the mean streets of Chicago a few years ago. I was reminded of this today when I came across a Youtube video of James Bay playing in Buddy Guy’s “Legends” club. James is from where we live in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and it turns out that he’s also […]

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Tags: 21, Blues, Buddy Guy, Budy Guy's Ledgends, Buick, carded, Chicago, crime, February, Hard Rock, James Bay, mugged, USA

Home Truth

28Nov15

The War Office changed its name to the Ministry of Defence in 1964. Now they should just go ahead and change it back. The Prime Minister, David Cameron is saying that we should bomb Islamic State militants in Syria and that Britain cannot afford to stand aside. But we’re not standing aside, we’re doing our […]

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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Bahrain, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, David Cameron, Graham Mack, IS, ISIS, Islamic State, Kurds, MI%, MI6, News, Qatar, Radio, RAF, Saudi Arabia, Travel, Turkmen, UAE

Thanksgiving Turkey

24Nov15

Are the American public being manipulated? The U.S. has issued a worldwide travel alert for it’s citizens in response to what they’re calling an “increased terror threat”. They’re advising Americans to avoid crowded places. They haven’t closed any airports, cancelled any flights or told people not to travel. It’s a vague warning that doesn’t offer any […]

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A Brush With Serendipity.

05Oct15

There were a couple of weird coincidences on our anniversary weekend trip to Stockholm. As we were queuing up to get on the plane at Heathrow, I spotted a bushy eyebrow bloke. We always find these people fascinating. Why don’t old men trim their eyebrows? This bloke’s brows looked like two very scared, furry animals. […]

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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Camera, coincidence, Duty Free, eybrows, fish-eye, Heathrow, iphone, Krona, Photography, SAS, Serendipity, Sweden, Travel