Now Falkland Islanders think it’s oil over
At last we know why Britain went to war with Argentina over the Malvinas. It seemed at the time that a few thousand sheep and a couple of wind-swept, treeless islands in Argentina’s back yard were not really worth fighting for.- but all is now a little clearer. The Falklands are sitting [...]
January 12, 2010The End of the World
There is bad news in the Times today everybody. The end is nigh – apparently. And whilst it may not be the Armageddon forecast by mad religious cults, it does indeed sound catastrophic. It appears that Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol.
I have to admit that my heart did indeed leap just a [...]
Blunt Advice
I was flicking channels over the weekend when I came across the very first episode of Sharpe. This proved to be a bit of a find on a number of counts. Not only had I never seen it before, so it filled in two hours of another snow-bound day rather well – but [...]
January 2, 2010Mt Car insurance has gone up AGAIN!
My car insurance came up for renewal just before Christmas… and surprise surprise, the car insurance quote I got from my existing insurer was a lot higher than last year. And guess what… I couldn’t find anywhere tat was charging quite as much. Once again an insurance company was determined to lose my [...]
December 14, 2009Bah humbug - Xmas!
Call me a greedy old scrooge, but I seem to have been planning my xmas this year since mid-November around the table and wine rack. It must be something to do with the diet I have been loosely sticking to which makes meat and alcohol the spawn of the devil in an effort to [...]
September 7, 2009Airline Bomb Plotters Locked Up
It’s rare indeed for some event on the news to deeply affect us all for years. But the guilty verdicts handed out to some home-grown extremists with a penchant for knocking airliners out of the sky with soft drink bombs has certainly caused angst to all of us many times.
Only a few weeks [...]
High Speed Train on track for cancellation
Hmmm - did anyone else out there get a sense of déjà-vu when the announcements were made about a high speed rail link between London and Glasgow? Apparently in less than two decades, if no intervening government cancels the project, I will be able to travel up to 200 miles per hour and [...]
September 1, 2009Beauty and the Geek
I was switching channels this morning and caught my first-ever reality TV show. Beauty and the Geek is now part of my life. For those of you not particularly au-fait with this piece of culture – it is a bunch of clever nerds paired up with self-obsessed attractive women. The rest [...]
August 24, 2009Romanian Benefit Fraud
Like many people, I have to say until today that until I picked up the Sunday Times today I had never heard of Tandarei. This town may sound like something tasty from an Indian restaurant menu – but according to the Sunday Times hacks at least – this is a place that leaves a [...]
August 11, 20092009 - the year of the wasp
Here we are in mid August and already my garden is becoming something of a no-go zone because of wasps. And this year’s vintage seem to be real alcoholics in that they buzz around and into wine and beer glasses as well as making every charred morsel from the BBQ a potentially painful [...]