London 2012
I hadn’t really given this much thought but with the current Olympic Games under way in China I remembered that the next games are to be held in London so did a quick search to see what I could turn...
View ArticleOnly A Heartbeat Away
Well, a heartbeat and five minutes if our beloved leaders get their way. That is five minutes after your last heartbeat and you become an automatic second-hand body parts supermarket. In a drive to get...
View ArticleOn Reflection
This is something you don’t see every day – at least not in my corner of England and not, usually, strolling casually down the middle of a residential street. We were out on our morning dog walk when...
View ArticleFebruary
Well here we are – February already. And it’s snowing! I have almost forgotten just what it is like to be both outside and warm. It would be hard for anyone to deny – in England anyway – that the last...
View ArticleSnow
Our beloved leaders infest every detail of our lives with rules, regulations, red tape and laws. They dictate which medicines I can buy. They determine where I can and cannot smoke. It has got to the...
View ArticleAssorted Ramblings #3
We learned last week that our beloved leaders want to give us a say on the quality of the services we receive. This was likened to EBay’s feedback points system where we could rate our local doctor,...
View ArticleFinding St. George #6
It’s that time again. As I sit and type this England has just slipped into the early hours of it’s national day which, I suspect, will continue with a fizzle and die without even a whimper. And what...
View ArticleSlip Sliding Away
I missed this when it was reported but the anger is not diminished because of that. Austrian tourists Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris, on a recent visit to London, did what all tourists do –...
View ArticlePoop Poop!
Yes it’s a Segway. Or – to give it it’s full title, a Segway Personal Transporter. A relatively common sight in many US cities and, I am told, European ones as well. Unless you happen to live in...
View ArticleLondon Pride
By coincidence, on the day that one of my small handful of readers left a comment describing the Millennium Dome as an ‘Upturned Tupperware Dish’ I was planning to write about it in this, my next post....
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