Mt 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 [...]
July 13, 2009The Ashes burst into life
Wow - what a cricket match! Sport at the highest level can often become pure theatre. What is it about the test series between England and Australia such a compelling event? You get the impression that most countries (and sane people) don’t care much about Test Cricket. But by crikey – [...]
July 9, 2009Oh lordy - I have become an ebayer
Like 15 million other Brits I’ve been buying and selling things on ebay just recently. Have you noticed that you can literally buy anything? But ebay does seem to be a portal into a strange surreal world.
Allegedly you can sell anything and anyone can make money. The BBC once memorably established [...]
Dog food days
Yesterday, I was dropped into Focus DIY store yesterday where I saw they now stock that useful DIY product, dog food (but very little useful timber). Funny stuff dog food. Like pooches, dog dood comes in all shapes and sizes – and prices.
Everyone knows dogs eat anything. And the more disgusting the better. A glutinous [...]