We might be a UK based blog (with the landlady based in France) but I thought you might be interested in hearing the results of the Australian elections in Queensland.
Whats that? You didn’t know
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Now for something completely different…
Guardian gets it wrong – 5 times
How many times will the Guardian have to apologise to other newspapers for telling lies? It has done so five times already. At least it has apologised each time.
Continue reading →Groundhog Day
Today is February 2 and it marks Groundhog’s Day, the annual celebration of Marmota monax‘s interaction with his shadow.
What’s that got to do with this
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So bus drivers aren’t allowed to be friendly any more. That seems to be my impression of the news that Brighton and Hove‘s bus drivers have been Continue reading →
Bus advert fail
Ignore for the moment that the picture shows that Windows has failed to load on the computer driving the display.
Just think back a bit. Back behind the bus. In the brain of the driver of the car behind the bus.
Do
Continue reading →Citizen Police
The Peelian principle states that “The police are the public and the public are the police“
So when a member of the public is willing to stand up when something goes wrong rather than stay
Continue reading →Open Thread!
The staff are busy again behind the scenes doing stuff which means that we can’t serve you at the bar. Help yourself to the drinks, but please leave some cash on the
Continue reading →If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again…
“IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN. Don’t give up too easily; persistence pays off in the end.” by Thomas H. Palmer in the ’Teacher’s Manual’.
If you really
Continue reading →His and her’s diary
Her Diary:
Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird.
We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner.
Continue reading →Blatant advertising
For those of who remember the case of Steven Neary, you will be pleased to learn that his father Mark has written a book about his experiences.
If a recent story by Mark
Continue reading →The injustice of the EAW
Many readers of this blog will know about the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). Many readers of all political persuasions will also be of the opinion that the EAW is a step
Continue reading →1.4 million years to clear housing waiting list
The National Housing Federation has just invented some figures to lobby the government with as they try and push their pet agendas.
Using some figures from a
Continue reading →Conservatively disgusted
The scientists have been at it again. They seem to have found a connection between having right wing views and being easily disgusted at disgusting images.
The
Continue reading →The modern way to handle a situation
When a couple of people does something wrong what would you normally expect to be the reaction. Would you tell the people involved off and ban them or take some similar appropriate action to ensure that the problem
Continue reading →60 things you say to children
60 things a parent has told their child: – What do you mean you’re still hungry
– Don’t touch that, it’s hot
– Go to bed, I’m tired
– Don’t step
Marat/Sade
I understand from the MSM that hundreds of people have been leaving a Royal Shakespeare Company‘s show early, during the interval
Continue reading →Does it really cost that much?
Simon Cooke asks on his blog how setting up the videoing of council meetings at Hampshire County Council could possibly cost nearly a quarter of a million pounds.
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The end of the world is nigh!
Are you still here? Is anyone reading this blog. Please let us know as the world should have ended by now.
Harold Camping is the one who
Continue reading →Technophilia
When Blackberry’s worlwide lost their connection to each other and the world many of Blackberry’s customers loudly proclaimed that they would chuck their handsets in for iPhones (other phones
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Why create new law
Prompted by a post by LongRider about safe limits and drinking and driving I started thinking about his idea that there shouldn’t be a law against drinking and driving
Continue reading →Barbershop food
I bet you’re wondering who or what or where a Kapsalon is?
The clue is in the picture above. It’s a type of food. The name is
Continue reading →How to make a toaster
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two
Continue reading →Lego Escher
Yet another sad or brilliant person (depending on your point of view) has done something else in Lego. This person has managed to re-create the famous M.C. Escher
Continue reading →My Precious
Why do people get so precious about random objects and desire them to exit forever?
Or in other words, I’m going to write about two seemingly totally separate cases but which have the common theme of not
Continue reading →Lego gun
A sad person, or a clever person (it depends on your point of view) has made a working gun out of lego. Before you say wow!, its not a working gun in
Continue reading →What do you do with a drunken parrot?
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
Earl-eye in the morning!
It’s
Continue reading →Gaddafi and the IRA, and the exposure of ITV
On Monday night ITV broadcast “Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA“, a documentary about the connection between Libya and the IRA. This was a serious programme about serious events though
Continue reading →Stupid Idiot
So a teenager called Paul Thompson has been called a stupid idiot. Now it’s well known that most teenagers are stupid idiots. I was when I was
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