My business is feeling the strain….

It’s the economy stupid! My business is feeling the strain. After 10 months or so the squeeze on the housing market is sucking the life from my firm. The greater part of my business supplies services to those buying or selling houses. This part is a withered arm now and the other arm is not […]

Freedom is a state of mind

Freedom is the ability to choose what to do, what to say and what to think. Most people take freedom for granted, especially in England; at the heart of western democracy. But in the past decade freedom has been under increasing threat. I’m not talking about the 42 days detention or even stop and search, […]

“Is it because I is black”?

Apparently three white supremacists have been arrested on their way to assassinate Obama. Why is it that believers in the superiority of the caucasian male are always inbred retards? They’d have more gravitas if they could actually recruit some seven foot tall Flash Gordan types with blond hair, blue eyes and white teeth. This trio […]

Vampire seen in Scarborough

My mate took me to see Yorkshire play some southern puftas from Kent at Cricket last Monday. We stayed in a ‘traditional Victorian seaside hotel’. That’s what it said in the web entry and that’s what we were told when we booked it by phone. The lady on the line was asked “Is there a […]

What’s Dry Rot?

Dry rot is a fungus which, in the right circumstances will eat wood at an astounding rate. Despite sounding like a bad thing, it’s not really. Let’s face it, decay is good, how overcrowded would this place be if we all lived forever? Anyway, this isn’t a technical page on the lovely fungus; no. It’s […]

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