…My Great-great-great grandfather was born. For some reason, can’t imagine why - the name was probably common at the time - they christened him Henry.
Here endeth my contribution to the “On this day in history” craze that will no doubt be sweeping the combined French and Spanish speaking parts of the internet before it […]
In comparison to Rachel who received a package in the mail which looked like a parcel bomb (don’t worry, she wore oven gloves to open it – a career in UXB disposal surely beckons), I received a normal looking package in the mail today. Now, it had cost three times as much to post as […]
Some of you have noticed that I occasionally edit or even delete posts after they’ve been published. This is generally because I notice that what I’d written after returning from an evening out - much like the half-eaten kebab left on the kitchen table - doesn’t look quite so good the next morning. If someone’s […]
The final reading of the ID Cards bill passed with a majority of 25 yesterday. Mr. Nosemonkey as well as Andrew and John are more than a tad aggrieved at the number of Conservative MPs who didn’t bother turning up to vote against this nasty piece of authoritarian legislation.
What surprised me more were the Labour […]
My mother is a registrar. That means she registers births, deaths and conducts weddings that are not in church. Somewhat disturbingly, the most common place she conducts weddings is at Alton Towers. Now, I spent a summer working at Alton Towers, dressed up in an eight-foot tall dog costume scaring the shit out of small […]
I’d written a long, long post about spending the weekend with a vegetarian family and how they’d complained about it being so difficult to be a vegetarian here. “Yeah, yeah”, I thought, and tucked into my cabbage. The computer decided it wanted to stop working and that post is now sadly/thankfully (delete as you see […]
