Here comes the tour de farce
Here’s a question. What country does the Tour de France start in? Easy isn’t it…. Belgium apparently. If my memory is correct, the Tour de France has even popped across le manche and seen a bunch of lycra-clad drug takers pedal their way through a part of the UK.,
All of which is [...]
Money matters
Money, Money, Money
Did you see the astonishing financial news this week that British banks are allegedly amongst the best (and best-off) in the world? How can this be? These are after all the reckless institutions staffed by utter incompetents that the taxpayer bailed out.
To my mind, banks are dull utilities. And [...]
BBC is a lottery winner’s dream
I think I rather resent paying the BBC licence fee. Why should I fund their largesse when they could generate funds through better marketing – not to mention a bit of advertising. I am not overly interested in how much they over-pay their alleged ‘stars’.
I am much more interested in all the [...]
Frozen Eggs is getting cool?
Startling news on the BBC today. Women in their late 30s are freezing eggs because they are still hunting for “Mr Right”, research suggests. It makes you wonder what has happened to romance.
A study of women at a Belgian clinic found half wanted to freeze their eggs to take the pressure off finding [...]
Dial up a new dect phone
If like me you like gizmos, you’ll love what you can get to go about your everyday business nowadays. Time was when you just got to use bic biros and a pencil sharpener – and one of those plastic tube things to shuffle your paper clips around. But now you have the chance to [...]
June 22, 2010Vuvuzela is adding buzz to world cup
The BBC is considering offering a ‘red button service’ in a bid to appease complaints surrounding the sound of the vuvuzela.
The noise of the plastic horn has become a hotly-debated issue since the start of the World Cup in South Africa last Friday.
On Tuesday morning the BBC confirmed it has received 545 [...]
Getting on with on-line shopping
I hate shopping. I rarely if ever go to the shops - and when I do I try and get out of the shop (or shopping centre) again as quickly as possible. Oddly though, I rather like on-line shopping and can peer wistfully at retail web sites again and again. So what [...]
June 20, 2010Absolutely everyone for tennis?
Oh dear, Wimbledon is kicking off and the jingoistic BBC is in something of a quandary. First of all there is the small matter of the world cup. Secondly, the brave Brit forever fated to fail heroically is in fact a dour Scot.
It’s all rather amusing. Every four years the nation [...]
Suffolk gets bad case of die-a-rhea - thanks to RSPCA
Disturbing and appalling news of bird cruelty in the East Anglian Daily Times. A South American ostrich called a Rhea was callously shot and killed – by the RSPCA. The local had got quite used to seeing the Rhea poking around in the fields, doing what Rheas do, eating what Rheas eat,. [...]
June 18, 2010Bloody sunday makes me see red
The Bloody Sunday killings were unjustified and unjustifiable, the Prime Minster has said.
Thirteen marchers were shot dead on 30 January 1972 in Londonderry when British paratroopers opened fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration.
Fourteen others were wounded, one later died. The Saville Report is heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired [...]