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PMQs
I follow the UKMinisters Twitter feed that follows all of the ministers who tweet. There is a pattern that happens every Wednesday. Prime Minister’s Questions occurs and all those on…
Rude?
So while flying to the US I encountered what I thought was a rude bloke, it could be me who is just too sensitive, or maybe with my attitude I…
Music to fly to – 1st Movement
Flying to the United States I decided to do some writing and since I wanted to drown out an odious nearby person and the drone of the planes engines (which…
I Get That
<rant> “Of course I know that there will be many people watching this who are worried about what else the year might bring. There are fears about jobs and paying…
Fake Alcohol
The BBC are warning us that there is a lot of fake booze for sale, particularly Vodka as it is easy to make clear spirits as that’s the normal colour…
Zingzillas lost their awesome
So having a small child changes you, for one thing you get to watch a lot more children’s television. Despite all your protestations that you will raise your child in…
Out [from] the wild and windy moor(1)
We speed along the rich tarmac and I sit facing backwards watching the vehicles slide through my view against the backdrop of wilderness with occasional man-made conformity(2). I have spent…
Do what thou wilt…
(Caution this post contains personal opinion, emotional choice and casually rambling rhetoric, a shorter version can be found at http://mdk.per.ly/2011/08/07/do-what-thou-wilt/) I was asked, online in Twitter(1) by a friend (@techpractical…
The Hirst Restaurant
So a friend of mine, N. the chef, mentioned that he was working for the Hirst Restaurant family who had just taken over a restaurant south of Lancaster. One of…
Grandfather’s Bollocks Drive the Bus
T’other day, as we colloquially state here in the North of England, I was cut up, another idiom, by an old lady riding on one of those mobility scooters. Let…