Category: Tim
Eureka!
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…
Balls
Silver balls. Following on from my ignominious return home yesterday with the car on the back of a truck, I got carted off by the RAC again, this time into Sheffield to get the immobiliser fixed. …. £875 of fixed, and I won’t have it back until tomorrow. So I wasted a day wandering around…
Meanwhile
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…
Have you booked your holidays yet?
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 Peoples Republic Of England
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…
People Profiler
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…
Bombing PM justified says Galloway
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.