He is still at it!

I see Gormless Gordon Brown is STILL trying to give away other peoples’ money, rather than acting as a responsible MP!

Amongst the things he wants to do is to increase access to broadband across the African continent. While this may sound good, leaving aside who will pay for it, all I can imagine would be a large increase in Nigerian bank scams!

I wish he would just disappear up his own fundament!

Sometimes we get our money’s-worth

After Tom KC’s post the other day, I was reading another blog* I visit regularly, and I found this . Well worth 6 1/2 minutes of your time.

Also puts in perspective the pretensions of all those whackos who claim that some mythical being worries about whether you wear a black sack, or eat a biscuit every Sunday, or about anything else that happens on this one insignificant little planet amongst all those trillions.

* Jerry Pournelle

Pedal(o) power

You’ll no doubt feel completely indifferent to the news that my pedalo blister has almost gone.

Its arrival was unexpected and quite painful.   I was just getting over another injury (thrown by wave against coral-covered rock of St Nicholas Island causing v painful weals on thigh) when it I got the foot pain. I binned a pair of sandals thinking they were responsible, then discovered the cause was actually a squash ball-sized blister on the ball of one foot.

When you think about it, I suppose it was inevitable, really;   two cyclists on holiday without bikes. Continue reading “Pedal(o) power”

We move, the wheel must always move

The stress of moving house can be emotionally traumatic for most people. The hassle of informing friends of a new address, dealing with solicitors, possible new utility providers and a whole host of other unforeseen calamities that can arise puts pressure on the most resilient human being. Luckily, I have no responsibility for these matters and am assigned the manual task of moving the furniture and stuff from A to B.

Before I go on, I know there are some super rich on here who pay others to do this service. Maybe you get a decorator in to paint your house as well. Well, good for you, I’m in the camp that says honest labour never killed anybody. Continue reading “We move, the wheel must always move”

Beastly man?

The cross-dressing man was caught with the animal in the dry moat of King Henry VIII’s Pendennis Castle overlooking Falmouth Bay in Cornwall.

The 33-year-old mounted the pet after it chased him out of sight of its woman owner.

The owner had been walking around the ancient castle with a friend when the pair spotted the lone transvestite on the morning of Saturday July 10th at around a quarter to twelve.

He was wearing a black dress and walking around the steep-walled, empty moat.

As the two ladies spotted the cross dresser he ran away. Later one of the dogs chased after the man; by the time the women had caught up, the man was having sex with the pet.

Castle staff then restrained the man while police were called.

Pendennis Castle, managed by English Heritage, is a popular family tourist attraction and was heaving with visitors in high season.

He was escorted home and later made a “full and frank confession”, and received a caution for outraging public decency.

A police spokesman said: “Other agencies were liaised with and he was handed over to them”.

A spokesman for English Heritage said: “This was a very rare incident”.

Hazards of Internet Booking

As some people may know I’m a fan of Singapore Airlines. We all know that such businesses are run on the principles of ‘bums on seats’, but despite always travelling cattle-class I’ve never felt like just another ‘bum on a seat’ or cattle either.

Last year I had to make a trip to the UK in a hurry. I booked on-line (first time ever) and was in the UK within 36 hours of getting the ‘help phone call’. I needed to change my return date, and found to my horror that I’d booked a three month ticket – it cost a fair bit of money and aggravations to change my arrangemnets. Continue reading “Hazards of Internet Booking”