Category: General

The Grauniad waxes wrath, (why don’t they ever wax Jennings?) on plans to found a new, private University.

British universities, plundered of resources by the bankers and financiers they educated, are not best served by a bunch of prima donnas jumping ship and creaming off the bright and loaded. It is as though a group of medics in a hard-pressed public hospital were to down scalpels and slink off to start a lucrative private clinic. Grayling and his friends are taking advantage of a crumbling university system to rake off money from the rich. As such, they are betraying all those academics who have been fighting the cuts for the sake of their students. Story.

Erm, ‘scuse me, isn’ this the same ‘newspaper’ wot advercates discriminashun against university applicants from, eg, private schools an’ middle class families? So, where’s the beef?

Modern parents are not just expected to bankroll their adult children, they now have to store all their unwanted clutter as well.

Blimey, I could have written this article, but I didn’t.

I’m forwarding it to my dear fledglings who fled the nest some years ago, but neglected to take their possessions with them. There is an interesting list of the things they store in the family home and I think I can safely say I have all of them!

Attics, their bedrooms and the whole house is full of their stuff. Well, I exaggerate slightly as I have gradually, with their reluctant permission,  discarded at least some of it but there is still a way to go.

Yes, entirely the fault of the parents, for being so indulgent, but my off-spring really don’t have much room.

OK, I’ll call a man with a van and ship it to them, and let them pay the bill.

One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very Sexy nightie. ‘Tie me up,’ she purred, ‘and you can do anything you want.’ So he tied her up and went golfing.

And my Granddaughter decided that she wanted her hair curled. In my daughter’s words:

Phew! It;s hot, hot, hot! I can;t believe my 5 year old daughter managed to cajole her grandfather into using the curling iron to curl her hair. I told her it was WAY to hot, and she just flounced out of the room saying- Pop Pop will do it for me! lol

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!