Two Wheels Good, Four Legs Bad
As Cabin fever and post sewage pipe replacement excitement ennui had set in, I decided to take my self orf for a long walk starting at Yatton down the Strawberry Line,
Continue reading →Bah Humbug!
Young Robert comes from Poland, a country where you take care of yourself, no vast welfare state to fall back on.
He lost his job just before Christmas and with it his accommodation. He didn’t trot off to
Continue reading →Nature or Nurture?
Beneath the smiling cricketeers
Picking up the Telegraph this morning, I see a big smiley photograph of some chaps in white hugging each other who are on holiday in the sun playing with a bat and ball. Then the BBC intones that
Continue reading →So, Who’s the Pawn?
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war’s begun
Alvin Tostig has a son today
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good
Eat, Drink and be Merry.
By my reckoning, January 12th should be our final day
Continue reading →Confession Time.
I was a lefty for over 15 years and during that dark time I lived a lie of convenience, idealism and denial. I
Continue reading →A Smuddled Message.
Another year, another round robin …
Sickeningly smug greetings from picturesque Smuddland where robins perch on spades outside the door and every day the winter sun rises above a blissfully happy and successful home. So, …
Never Mind Scrapping Cable, Scrap The Whole Department
I am not going to rehearse again in these pages my own particular tussles with the DTI/BERR/BIS that are now entering their fifth year, but needless to say any organisation that refuses
Continue reading →Happy Christmas!
Ergo Ego
Why did this not surprise me ! Vince Cable has a massive ego that believes that ‘he can bring down the Government’. The ex Labour Party/SDP/Liberal Democrat sage who predicted seventeen Continue reading → Hurrah for Common Sense!
Mr Justice Mostyn sitting on the last day before the Christmas vacation has just decided that Steven Neary shall be returned to his Father permanently in time for Christmas.
Steven, a 20 year old autistic man, has been
Continue reading →Family Affairs.
Steven Neary – Update.
Defeated On All Fronts
Not in front of the children.
The purpose of a country park is to provide a place that has a natural, rural atmosphere for
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I am Pornacus.
* Brilliant title, unashamedly stolen from HERE. Along with a gem of an idea to throw a spanner in the works of the latest Nanny initiative.
The latest ejaculation from our freedom loving government has
Continue reading →Libertarianism = Right Wing Crazies
The Guardian that well known apologist for anything big Government does has now let the ‘left wing’ loose on name calling. During the week George Monbiot ( have I spelt that right- who cares) did a piece
Continue reading →Four x Four’s To The Rescue
Can it only be as long ago as eighteen months ago that Green Campaigners were targetting owners of four x four gas guzzling apocalypse creating vehicles in places like London
Continue reading →To Bury Julian, Not to Praise Him.
Oh to be a fly on the wall as the competing shibboleths fought to the death in the wreckage of Wikileaks last week.
Our modern main stream media have adored the Wikileaks. They have long given themselves over
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Snowed in Edition. Subrosa – will Scotland’s assets still be there when the snow clears? Ambush Predator – predicts an icy blast for ‘votes for prisoners’. Continue reading → Spontaneous Combustion in the Blogosphere.
All the world’s a blog,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
At first the infant, mewling and puking in
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Since we have been on ‘foreign languages’ this morning, I thought you might enjoy this:
H/t to Ollie Cromwell
Lex in the City.
Lifestyle Choices At Christmas
This woman is 51. She is a TV “health guru” advocating a holistic approach to nutrition and ill health, promoting exercise and a pescetarian diet high in organic fruits and Continue reading → There’s No Penis Like A Snow Penis.
And other cold weather jokes…..
Blimey – we’ve even got snow in the Dordogne this morning! The Pompiers were out at the crack of dawn pulling motorists out of ditches, and my neighbour has smoke coming out of
Continue reading →Shiver Me Timbers
That’s the one which would allow the British Phonographic Industry – no wonder they go by the acronym of the BPI –
Continue reading →Read the Small Print No:276
From Downing Street:
The Cabinet confirmed that the wedding on Friday, April 29 next year will be an official bank holiday. The day falls at the end of Easter week and
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has limited the scope of his audit opinion on the regularity of expenditure in the 2009-10 Resource Accounts that report the costs of the MPs’ Expenses Scheme. This is the first audit
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