A short spell of insomnia last week caused me to watch a late-night TV programme about the top British bands of 2004. Liking what I heard, iTunes’ excellent music sharing facility allowed me to preview the albums of Snow Patrol and Franz Ferdinand. I’m not convinced about the latter, but Snow Patrol’s Final Straw is excellent and needing to purchase something from Amazon anyway, I added it to my shopping cart. I also noticed they were selling the first Stereophonics album for a bargain £3.33.

Ordered Sunday afternoon, arrived today — Amazon really do have a fantastic service.