London really is amazing this week
Hey you could call me a cycnic but I am not big on conspiracy theories. OK – so every time it is a full moon I look up and think “Could the Americans really have got there with the technology of a Morris Minor?” And was Lee Harvey Oswald really that good a [...]
October 8, 2009River Trent in the Shit
Stoke’s unwholesome reputation as one of the less desirable parts of the country to live in rose still further this week with news that a pleasant-sounding mixture of cyanide and raw sewage was gliding down the Trent.
Concerned-looking newscasters, who presumably should have been wearing protective clothing for health and safety reasons, reported earnestly [...]
Home Office Moans
Anyone else out there work for themselves at home? There is a big difference between being employed in an office and working at home. Your office equipment is often not all it could and should be. Despite a bit of help from the tax man – it is often a big ask [...]
October 7, 2009Elephantine Ice Age Secrets Emerge
I see a baby woolly mammoth that died 40,000 years ago has popped out of the permafrost in such pristine condition it still has mother’s milk in its stomach. Now Lyuba, as the baby pachyderm is being called is embarking on a global tour of paleantology museums – though we won’t see her at [...]
October 6, 2009Wrong Number
This month I have had yet more problems with BT. First of all they cut my download capacity even though I am paying at the premium rate. Then they had the temerity to cut off my broadband altogether, simply because I hadn’t paid the on-line bill which I had not seen.
So all is [...]
Sea the Stars Gallops into Legend
In recent years the gift of television has brought some extraordinary sportsmen into our homes. Mohammed Ali, Roger Feder, Jack Niclaus to name but three icons of their sport. And to this brief list we now have to add a horse.
But what a horse. I don’t like horse racing – but I [...]