Category: Tim

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…

I will be enacting a few new laws. All sinks and baths will be required to have the hot tap on the right and the cold tap on the left. All houses will be required to display their number in such a way that it is visible to all passers by, whether on foot or…

That look like Hitler.

I have now been a web developer for almost twelve years. I must admit I am getting really fed up with seeing crass incompetence like this. Incredibly it is, if anything, getting worse in spite of the huge improvements in browsers. “Brown carries can for poll debacle but more problems on the ho”. Give me…

Another one of those silly quizzes. Arse Or Elbow Sorry about lowering the tone and all. I scored 10/14.

June 5, 2000 The Japanese government recently decided on a target of raising the food self-sufficiency rate–that is, the ratio of food consumed daily by the Japanese that is supplied by domestic production–to 45% by fiscal 2010, a five-percentage-point increase over the fiscal 1998 level of 40%. The goal is based on the idea of…