Fairly well hidden, although it is available via a ring-back service, the Amazon customer service number is 0800 2796620 **now 0800 4961081**.

Home Delivery Network don't have a number anywhere on their website. Their telephone number is 0870 1545400.

** 4 December 2009 **
From the comments it seems like nothing has changed in the 3 years since I made this post. If you get any problems your first course of action should be to phone the retailer. Hassle them every day until you receive your delivery. If you spend time chasing HDNL yourself - phoning depots and customer service or even driving to the depot - the retailer gets off easy. And if they start putting the pressure on then perhaps things will change...

If you must contact HDNL then the latest advice, from a comment left here, is:

"dial the 0871 977 0800 number, it initially says it's an automated service but if you let it go through the options and do nothing you get the option to press * for the menu, if you do that and go through the options again you get to press * again to speak to a customer services advisor."

For those who were as frustrated as me at not being able to find a phone number for Lastminute on their website, their main call centre number is:

0871 222 3200

Their head office number is:

020 7866 9200

Concorde taking off from Edinburgh airport bound for Heathrow on 24 October 2003.



The video was taken with a Canon S45 while standing on the boot of my car, so it's not great quality. Gallery of concorde pictures here.

I've been playing with Google Video

The USAF displayed the B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber at the 2003 Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford, UK. It flew non-stop from its base in the US, circled the airfield once and then flew straight back. Unfortuntely it was accompanied by 2 fighters and the show decided to play background music, so you couldn't hear how silent it was, but it was still an impressive sight.

Taken with a Canon S45 so it's not great quality, but you get the idea.

As promised then, my initial review of the A701. Pictures to follow later this evening.

Normally I'm against companies announcing products months in advance, but in Mio's case it seems to have worked to their advantage. If I hadn't have heard about it last August I would by now have bought a separate PDA and bluetooth GPS unit. After 7 months wait though, I finally have an A701.

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Despite being one of the most famous guitar intros around, I hadn't been able to find a tab of Guitar Man anywhere, so there was only one thing for it - do some work myself for a change.

The Elvis version uses a standard dropped D tuning and the Jerry Reed one has the whole guitar then tuned down a semitone. I think it's pretty accurate, but this is my first attempt at tabbing so let me know if you think there's any mistakes.


E-3s|(5)-5------5-------|(4)s5--5------5-------|
B-5s|(7)-7------7-------|(6)s7--7------7-------|
G---|-------------------|----------------------|
D---|--------------0----|-----------------0----|
A---|-------------------|----------------------|
D---|-0----0----0----0--|----0----0----0----0--|


E-(4)s5--5------5-------|--4--4------3--------2|
B-(6)s7--7------7-------|--6--6------5--------3|
G-----------------------|----------------------|
D------------------0----|---------------0------|
A-----------------------|----------------------|
D-----0----0----0----0--|--0----0----0----0----|

E----------------5----|
B----------------5----|
G----------------6----|
D----------------7----|
A---------------------|
D-0----5----6----7----|

Your thumb hits the low D string on every beat, use your 2nd and 3rd fingers to play the E & B strings, and your 1st finger the higher D. Easy!!! The chords to the rest of the song is standard 12 bar blues in D, and I'll let some other brave soul tab out the solo.