Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Well the emails are coming thick and fast now. Today I had an email from Mindy Wren (Hi Mindy!) which had the above picture. The immediate thing that struck me about the picture was how like a 1950’s woman she looked. This conjures up to me a time when women stayed at home and looked …
The American elections are in full swing and the Republicans seem to have decided that I need to be fully appraised of the situation, which is odd since I am a UK citizen and have no right to vote in the elections. More importantly I also have no interest in voting and if I did …
Those that know me even moderately well will know that I am a huge WilliamsF1 fan and have been since my teens when the team was new and had yet to win their first world championship. And I have stuck with them through the fallow years, which have seemed interminable. But now we have a win …
Checking through my spam folder this morning to see if anything legit had slipped through the net when this appeared. I really like the line about it being “very difficult for people to believe anything that comes through the internet” Dear Friend, I know you will be surprised to read my email. I got your …
It’s been years since I have been to anything that you might consider a music festival, although Hard Rock Calling might count I guess. My last “proper” festival would have been to Reading in 1988 when a very pissed off Ricky Ross, lead singer with Deacon Blue, declared “anyone else throws a bottle at us …
I’ve known for a while now that it is possible to go round the inside of the Houses of Parliament either by paying (at the weekends) or for free by writing to your local MP. So after years of slagging him off I swallowed my pride and sucked up to John Redwood to get a …
It has been announced this week that the price of a first class stamp is to rise by 30% and a second class stamp by a whopping 39%. The reason that the rises are necessary is because of increased competition not only from others taking away delivery of physical items but by electronic means of …