A Grand Day Out

The nightmare journey of a what seems like a thousand miles begins with me saying “why don’t we go and see Thomas the Tank Engine at the Nene Valley Railway?” I blame Jen. My record for organising things isn’t good; I once booked a seaside holiday in what I was told was a “lovely chalet”, […]

My daily bread

Apropos of nothing, here is my recipe for bread that I use with my Panasonic SD254 bread maker. 300g Good quality strong flour (Hovis Strong bread flour) 175g Cheapo strong flour (Tesco strong bread flour) 5ml Tesco fast acting yeast 7.5ml Sugar 5ml Salt 1/4 Tsp Ground ginger 20g butter 2.5ml Vinegar 315ml Water Put […]

Open up

If you apply for a job at Cambridge University, you’ll have to fill out a form from their HR department. Which is fine if you don’t mind printing out the PDF and filling it in by hand. To fill it in on a PC is a bit more difficult. The only other options are .doc […]

God-awful shit in the TV Times

What do Princess Di, the Flying Scotsman and a blue tit hatching out of an egg have in common? They have all been the subjects of adverts for truly dreadful shit, as sold in the TV Times. Even the people that make this fuck-awful tat can’t quite believe that anyone would be mental enough to […]

Life after death?

I was walking back to the house, having just done a quick milk dash to the Coop with young Jimbo in the buggy. As I passed the church on the way back, I saw a poster in the window. It said: Life After Death? and had one of those thingies on the right here next […]

Mopping up

Long time no drivel. I’ve been hanging around at Blah Your Branes, which is a site dedicated to taking the piss out of people who post to the BBC’s “Have Your Say” board. It might sound a bit odd, but have a look if you aren’t easily offended. Now, to business. I received this rather […]

Bad math tax

Adverts for the UK lottery make me want to rant. So I will. Let’s give it up for the optimists out there. Don’t just dream of being a lucky winner – think big and think positive, as those dreams could come true. No they won’t. Sorry to be a spoilsport here, but you will not […]

Blowing chunks

Oh go on then, if you insist. Search strings, as recorded in the site logs, coming up. Here are all of them for October if you like raw data. This list also includes ones from September and, as usual, I’ll do my best to help these poor souls. can you make someone vomit by punching […]

Paypal are a bunch of useless twats

A word of advice if you selling something on Ebay to an international buyer using Paypal – don’t. Well, at least read this first before you do and don’t come running to me when Paypal decide that your money is safer with them and they’ll just hang on to it, thank you so very much, […]

The Nibs Curve

The curve of Cuteness Vs. Volume. Young Nibbles can be proud that I have named this graph after him. He can cover the whole range in the space of a few seconds, but does seem to enjoy spending time in the right hand side.