Officials in Pecica, a village town about 13 miles from the Hungarian border in the country’s west, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase “Attention – Drunks”.
MP calls for burkas to be banned in Britain
An MP has called for ministers to ban the wearing of burkas, branding it ”offensive” and ”against the British way of life”.
Dear Mr Holloborne, how I dress is my business.
If I choose to wear a burka, that is my business. Yes, I am male, so people [...]
I have just tried out theWindows Live Writer blogging tool and must say I am very impressed.
It will let you insert images, puts a drop shadow on (?) if you want and auto thumbnails.
It will handle pretty much all the formatting for you with no fuss, except it doesn’t seem to have style sheet awareness, [...]
An ecstatic Rubbish Christmas Grand Champion Jan receives her treasured prize the Limited Edition Special Pack tomato shaped tomato sauce bottle.
I’ve got two more prizes to hand out to runners-up Lin and Alison, I bet they can’t wait to get their hands on those Poundland tokens. Will I be seeing both of you? Or should [...]
Today we went to Roche Abbey
We played hide and seek
Admired the spots on a ladybird
Threw Pooh sticks
And waited for them to reappear
… and Small has learnt to play with the stream…
Today we went to Bolsover Castle. It is only two villages away, so of course, we haven’t been there in the six years since we moved here. Signed up for family membership to English Heritage while we were there (15 months for the price of 12).
High point for Big was the tree, which is a [...]
I have only ever been on the North Norfolk Railway and to a couple of museums including a trip long ago to the National Rail Museum in York so our trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was pretty exciting for me as well as the smalls.
The railway extends south-west from Keighley in [...]
It has taken me a while to get round to blogging this. Last week I took the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off to avoid the Great Yorkshire Show traffic jams in Harrogate, which would have added several hours to my travelling time to work (which is already too long).
I had planned to take the children [...]
It has been rather quite round here, what with the management taking the spawn off to the jolly seside, but I have been keeping myself amused with all sorts of stuff.
The Silent Ringtone Get a teenager to listen to it for you. (I was a bit put out, in spite of my incipient geriatric status, [...]
Vacancy for a King
here
I have had one haircut in the last five years.
The time before, I got fed up with the whole business of haircuts and had the hairdresser whip it all off to a No 2.
Last year, I started to let it grow back and a month or so ago, I had the one haircut. The hairdresser [...]
I have been a republican for as long as I can remember. Back then, you couldn’t even get people to talk seriously about it, whereas now, there seems to be a growing movement towards a republic – no idea what percentage of people favour it, but I surmise that it is a substantial figure.
I therefore [...]
Your personality: Stress Lover
You just love it when things get frantic… and doesn’t everyone else know it? You buzz around the office at 100mph, with your quick-fire repartee and snappy decision-making. Which is great for getting things done – or at least giving that impression – but make sure you know where the line is. [...]
Scotsman article (terrific newspaper that)
While I am inclined to the view the George Galloway is more of a Monster Raving Loony than any elected MP has a right to be, hearing his views on the radio today made me think of Claus_von_Stauffenberg.
Discussing the above neologism, Jax and I concurred, neither of us knew what it meant. When she read this definition to me….
“Metrosexual was coined in 1994 (as was its noun, metrosexuality) by British journalist Mark Simpson, who used it to refer to an urban male of any sexual orientation who has a strong aesthetic sense [...]
Surgeon bought his equipment off eBay (Scotsman article).
I like this a lot – Worldmapper “Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”
:rant:
Can things get any worse?
Over the weekend I read a set of estate agents particulars “in our opinion a 4 bedroomed detached house”. Good to know that your estate agent can recoginise a house when he/she/it sees one, I suppose.
But no, gentle reader, the nadir has been reached, the ultimate low.
On Radio 4, on [...]
