Author: Tim

A £20bn new Thames barrier could be built to prevent potentially disastrous flooding in London. That is about three hundred quid for each person in the country. I think London looks rather pretty this way and at least it would finally stop those irritating demonstrators in Parliament Square.

“Daddy, what is Coca Cola®?” Can’t be many seven year olds who need to ask that one. She is now on the computer surfing the Lego site. She likes the Eiffel Tower (lots of pocket money) and is complaining that the flash movies are taking too long to load. I have told her I will…

Over the last week or so Jax and I have been watching Survivors. "Survivors is an outstanding 38 episode drama series with a cult following that first aired between 1975 and 1977… the series concerns the aftermath of a plague which had wiped out over 99% of the world's population and the experiences of a…

I saw an article at The Register about Energy Buster . I must say at first reading it seemed like a fantastic idea to be able to terminate all the stuff around the house which is on standby, but the more I thought about it, it seemed to me that we would need quite a…

Letters Home is a series of half our programmes on Radio 4 at 9.30am in which immigrants offer their impressions of Britain. I bumped in to one the other week and found it fascinating, and have just read the feature about this today’s From Manchester with love

I trod on one the other night. 🙁

MASS balloon launches have been banned across Suffolk “(Ipswich) borough’s leisure spokeswoman, Judy Terry, who works in the marketing industry, said she would be advising her clients against using balloon launches after reading about the environmental damage they can cause….. the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) .. is worried that latex balloons are often eaten by…

“Four out of ten pupils could not read, write and add up properly by the time they left primary school this summer, the Government said yesterday.” Times Online Really, it seems to me that it is about time we admitted that the school system doesn’t work. I am not necessarily saying that schools could not…

Jax disagrees with me. She thinks this is blue. It is clearly green. Sadly, both our children have inherited her colour blindness.

(Thanks Sarah)