Category: Tim
Taking my car for a spin
The smalls would just love one of these, just think of all the games you could play. I wonder how fast it turns? Anyway, Jax says I can’t have one. 🙁 And it was cheap too. Special introductory offer £399.99 off usual price of £8999.99. I wonder if I could get a bigger one for…
Northernness is curable
Yorkshire boy talks posh after op. “William McCartney-Moore of York was struck down with viral meningitis last March and needed brain surgery after doctors found he had a rare strain called empyaema. “He lost everything,” said his mother, Ruth. “He couldn’t read or write, he couldn’t recognise things, he had no recollection of places he’d…
Red-top reticence
When I read last week that the Press Complaints Commission had censured FHM magazine for printing a photograph of a topless 14-year-old girl, I looked to the press for coverage and comment. Surely, I thought, newspapers that are so determined to root out “evil” paedophiles and to denounce “pervs” who view child pornography would have…
Now blogging in Videcolor and Supermarionation
5,4,3,2,1 Amazon DVD Rental sent us Thunderbirds series 1. It appears to be gripping…
It never gets dark any more
This is something I have bemoaned to Jax and others a number of times. I grew up in a place where if there was no moon at, you bumped into things because it was very dark. When I go outside at night here, there are streetlights, house lights and the reflections of lights off the…
Die Fiends Reunited, die
“In a major move, the social networking site said on Wednesday that it intends to make a limited public listing service available to people who are not logged in to Facebook, meaning that non-members will be able to look for friends or acquaintances via a search box on the Facebook home page. Information contained in…
Tougher rules
“There is to be a new offence of failing to ensure a child is not found in a public place without reasonable justification.” BBC Huh?
