Sharks bites man in Scotland!
Somewhat intriguing news on Monday that a man has been viciously attacked by a shark in Scotland. More intriguing still – the attack actually happened in Edinburgh. Maybe the shark was feeling unusually aggressive after a night out on the town.
But it does indeed seem that a 23-year-old man has been treated by [...]
X is for manipulation
Am I the only one who is becoming addicted to X-Factor? A few years ago this loathsome programme was just a harmless bit of fun on a Saturday night as a motley collection of wannabees, pub singers and talentless individuals sang their little hearts out to entertain the nation, in the hope of getting [...]
October 23, 2009Fake Factor
Am I the only one who is becoming addicted to X-Factor? A few years ago this loathsome programme was just a harmless bit of fun on a Saturday night as a motley collection of wannabees, pub singers and talentless individuals sang their little hearts out to entertain the nation, in the hope of getting [...]
October 22, 2009Very Cross about VOIP
Where would we be without all these sophisticated office telecoms systems eh? At the weekend my credit card shaped car key stopped working, which made opening and locking the car somewhat difficult. So I rang my local garage on the telephone. Needless to say they were not answering their telephones.
No I was [...]
BNP and BBC in cahoots
The BNP has gone all Churchillian in its quest for lots of free publicity. Seems to have worked a treat as the media are in a right old tizzy about the rather juvenile marketing campaign the political racists have dreamed up. And now the BBC has got in on the act by giving [...]
October 21, 2009Leech catches burlgar
A leech caught red-handed (if leaches have hands) at the site of a robbery has bitten its former host once again. According to today’s more unusual news items, an Australian man faces jail for armed robbery after police used blood from a leech to make a DNA match from a 2001 crime scene, a [...]
October 20, 2009Traffic calming makes me so angry
Once again I nearly had an accident this weekend. I’m not a dangerous driver and it was not my falut – or the other driver’s. It was the council’s crazy idea to make our roads far more dangerous with their daft and potentially-dangerous safety schemes.
You must have these council-made death traps near [...]
London transport gets pricy
It seemed to be national news today that the London mayor, Boris Johnson, has announced sharp rises in bus and tube fares and the congestion charge to help plug a multimillion-pound hole in transport funding in the capital. Why? Most of us don’t live or work in London – so we couldn’t care [...]
October 15, 2009Money, Money, Money
I see Alistair Darling is ready to hand over up to £5bn of taxpayers’ money to the part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group in order to shore up its finances. If there is one thing guaranteed to make me more angry than incompetent politicians – it is incompetent politicians and incompetent bankers working together to rip [...]
October 14, 2009It’s time to move on
I’m thinking of selling my home. Winter is definitely on the way. I’ve noticed a distinct chill in the air as I walk the dog in the fields behind Rob Towers. So the lure of living abroad is getting stronger again. Also I have just had a bellyful of politicians on [...]