Author: Tim

If you find yourself crossing the road in the German town of Bohmte, look both ways – and then perhaps check again. It has scrapped all its traffic lights and road signs in a radical experiment designed to make the streets safer. Maily Dail Sounds like an excellent idea.

A TEACHER who stripped for a class of 14-year-old pupils has defended his actions as part of his “style of teaching”. More at the EADT

I have just removed over 230,000 spam comments from this blog’s database. All this spam clutters the database making it physically much larger, which can be an issue if you need to move it or back it up (much bigger back up file and potentially much more difficult to restore). Article here for anyone else…

“The Scottish Government is considering imposing a minimum price for alcohol based on its strength, BBC Scotland understands. … … Increasing the age for buying drink from off-licences in Scotland from 18 to 21 is another suggestion.” BBC So let’s get this straight, a twenty year old voter who is home on leave from active…

Brit. /rntr/, /rntr/, /rntr/, /rntr/, U.S. /rntr/      1. The action of determining one’s position correctly. Also in extended use. (……in this case the picture of Clifton Beck was taken at SE 148 234) I have had Big at home with me today. This morning she wanted to learn to read maps. I downloaded an extract…

Smalls playing outside, Jax is off house-clearing, I am listening to Radio 2. “For What Is Chatteris” was just on, by the interestingly named “Half Man Half Biscuit”. I think one needs to know Chatteris to get the full effect… One way system – smooth and commendable Go by bus – they’re highly dependable The…

Had a trip out with the small people this afternoon. We visited Bankfield Museum in Halifax. The museum has a Toy Gallery, Textiles Gallery and is home to the Museum of the Duke Of Wellington’s Regiment. Small people seemed happy, particularly when they found a Batmobile. I must say I found it rather unnerving to…

Law 5. People who drive round in Citroen Saxos and Peugeot 206s converted into Megabass speakers will be strapped (Indian Mutiny fashion) across the fronts of Status Quo’s stage speakers.

And, no, I am not going to say anything about women drivers. Honest. No, really, not a word.

It seems that the Independent reads Making It Up, I blogged some of my favourite place names last year, and The Indepenent has some more goodies What’s in a name? Britain’s rudest places. Here is their selection (some of the Google Maps links are flakey, I think they need to buy a better gazetteer:- Shitterton…