Or how I learned to stop ogling and start listening
At the age of forty eight I have fallen quite pleasantly in love with a much younger woman. Or to be precise her voice. What happened
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Gildas and the Big Fish Part II
On the first day the rods are assembled in the hotel car park before breakfast. They will not be taken apart until the end of the trip; that would involve too much faffing about. Instead at
Continue reading →I have a dream
I always thought that the Daily Mail was the newspaper to go to for the unusual made up stories, ones where I’m sure I dreaming they are sometimes so weird. This being more the case after
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It is just four o’clock. The sun is setting, and glittering red on the water in front of me. I am standing rather uncomfortably on the bank of the River Tweed, to be precise just down
Continue reading →Fire – fire – fire – Oops!
So super sophisticated jet fighters are worried enough by small arms fire to return fire and straffe a whole column of cars and kill a dozen people. Small arms fire that can reach a Continue reading →
Taijou
After the huge earthquake loads of foreigners are leaving Japan. Encouraged into panic mode by their respective governments telling them to leave because of the dangers of radiation poisoning.
When you have the
Continue reading →St Patrick’s Day
Whilst it’s still St Patrick’s day (only just and for those of you reading this on Friday why weren’t you up reading this during the night with the dozen other readers), I thought it would be
Continue reading →Feck off Facebook!
Dear Mr Zuckerberg
“Thanks for your feedback. Over time, this information helps us deliver more relevant adverts to you.”
I don’t want relevant ads. In fact I don’t want ads at all. You’ve
Continue reading →Exit to Eden
When it comes to The Deficit, I am a curious bird perhaps unknown to Mother Nature, a pragmatic hawk. I think serious cut backs had to be made or we would, later or more
Continue reading →Panem et circenses
Last November a ceremony took place in a field by the river Thames at Runnymede. It marked the beginning of five years of celebrations leading up to the 800th anniversary of a king signing a piece of parchment.
Continue reading →Saturday Nostalgia
Life has a habit of not being fair. I find myself, in the depths of an economic recession, without a full-time job, not being able to find a full-time job, and trying to figure out if freelancing as a Mac
Continue reading →How to fill in the census form
As many of you will have received your census form in the last few days, I thought it might be worthwhile giving you a guide into how to fill in the form.
Some
Continue reading →Mineral Oil causes Cancer
OMG! Mineral oils will give you cancer, you will have organ failures, your body contains this contaminant at levels 100 of times recommended guidelines. All this coming from a green product. Recycled cardboard used in packaging
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“London School of Useful Idiots” 1
The best description yet of left wing intellectuals who might have lots of intelligence but no common sense, no reason and no morals. They are so keen on supporting
Continue reading →Equality insurance
The European Court of Justice has just announced their decision on the case of whether insurers are allowed to take into account sex as one of the many risk factors they use in
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Tony Blair’s legacy and what being progressive and demanding equality for all leads to.
- Countryside Restoration Trust chairman and columnist Robin Page said at a rally against the Government’s anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire Continue reading →
Porn
There I got your attention! 
I’ve delayed this post till the weekend for obvious reasons. For many it probably wouldn’t get past your workplace’s firewall so I’ll leave it
Continue reading →Magnificent specimens
A whole avenue of trees have been destroyed. They’ve been chopped down and burnt. And the culprit who got rid of them? The National Trust. The organisation that is supposed to be saving the British heritage has killed
Continue reading →Radio Gildas
A few days ago Anna reported on great and the good of the blogosphere (allegedly) holding an expensive conference to help goodness knows who cope with the phenomenon of bloggers, tweets and so forth.
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We’ll Meat Again!
The Health Nazis are at it again. Nanny State is about to tell us off for eating too much red meat. No more than 500 grams per week, children! About 1.1 lb per in proper money,
Weird fact of the day
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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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 →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 →Touch me!
Why do you blog?
I work in the computer industry so blogging, tweeting, facesitting, weren’t unusual terms
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Takin’ the ‘P’.
I’d like a show of virtual hands, please, from those readers who have recently filled up their petrol tank with the usual care and control and yet who have arrived at the cashier’s desk to
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Party!
Party! There’s going to be a party on the street. Well so long as the council allow it.
Andrew Withers has previously mentioned the Royal Wedding where
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