Have you heard of the banana equivalent dose (BED)?
It’s the dose of radiation from bananas that can be compared to other sources of radiation to make the figures more understandable. So
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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Midwinter Maddie-ness.
Just a few short days ago, Madeleine McCann’s twin brother and sister celebrated their sixth birthday. They are probably reading by now, although not yet old enough to play ‘research the family history’ on Google –
Continue reading →Yew Turn If Yew Want to – Competition.
The Spelling Lady’s not for burning at the stake, just grovelling apologies. Little Jemima and Gabrielle can continue to frolic in the forest counting ladybirds, secure in the knowledge that whilst Daddy may have their trust
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News reaches us that Ecstasy isn’t as bad as the authorities have led to us believe.
Politicians always seem to be on the prohibitionist side and have been telling us that drugs are bad.
Continue reading →That 3.48am WTF Moment !
Last night, I fell asleep as I sometimes do while listening to Radio 4, this usually entails waking up any time between 2am and 5am to the the BBC world service. Some of the
Continue reading →Your Country Needed You!
Where were you? Yes You!
In the space of barely a week, Cameron has announced that he is ‘sickened’ by the European Court of Human Rights ruling on the issue of prisoner’s votes, and
Continue reading →Bring Back Capital Punishment.
If for no other person than Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi.
I will personally administer the poison/pull the handle/switch on the current, whichever method is approved.
I will personally eat my Quaker principles – on behalf
Continue reading →Killing The Sacred Cow
And so it ends, the National Compact first dreamt up in the dying days of the Second World War called the Welfare State.
The Welfare State was always a ponzi
Continue reading →The Criminal Records Bureau.
A CRB check is now declared essential before you hire a newspaper boy; it is seen as the cure all for every possible risk of child abuse. So ferocious are the checks, so thorough, that even a nurse who
Continue reading →On the Scrap Heap.
Taking the King’s Shilling…..
Or more properly taking the .003% of the King’s Shilling!
As some of you have observed over the past 24 hours, this site is now taking advertising. I have hesitated on this issue for a long time, fully
Continue reading →Liverpool on the Lam…
In some sectors of Liverpool – OK, Scotland Road – the tradition of ordering a ‘chinky’ and then legging it without paying, is so deeply engrained that one restaurant which sought to curb this, for
Continue reading →Astroturfing Big Society.
The Guardian has interspersed its continuous high pitched whine of ‘cuts, cuts, cuts – the world is coming to and end’, with endless articles over the past few days – and by endless I mean
Continue reading →Autumn Leaves
Grief, and its closely related topic death, is not a matter much discussed in the modern world. Like growing old, it is a topic regarded as taboo in a society which if it is
Continue reading →The ‘Scrambled Egg’ Brigade.
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Last December there was a small piece that popped up in my RSS box, not really substantial enough to make a blog post, but intriguing all the same. An on-line Divorce company – I had no idea
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Caedmon’s Cat in ‘Why do you Blog?’
I blog during the course of my mouse-catching activities. I do so because I’m the only moggy in the area who’s interested enough to do it. Life is getting
Continue reading →‘Allo my Darlings!
Thank-you all for your many e-mails asking where I was – much appreciated.
I just popped in to give SadButMadLad his wages, and empty the pool table cash box….can’t see the fascination in pool
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The will of the people, I
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Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising. Bruce Schneier on bomb sniffing mice. John Adams on the need for a Cream Buns Act.
Continue reading →Proofreading is a dying art
Proofreading is a dying art, wouldn’t you say? I should say that I am no expert at grammer or spelling and use the tools available to ensure I don’t make too many mistakes but it’s easy to miss the
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The REAL big society
Instead of prisoner votes, care for pensioners
Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. Solves two problems in one.
Pensioners
This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.
They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d
Continue reading →Why do you blog?
I work in the computer industry so blogging, tweeting, facesitting, weren’t unusual terms
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Mumbo-jumbo
Carol Hill – School Dinner Lady.
A Man for All Reasons.
Clang! Clang! Ding-a-ling! Can I have silence in the bar please! Your landlady would like to say a few words.
I would like to propose a toast.
Some of my more regular readers are aware that I
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