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In honour of our youngest child’s birthday on Sunday, we have decided to declared monday a public holiday.

Just sent off an email to Chesterfield Royal Infirmary complaining at being kept waiting for an hour and a quarter for an appointment to see a neurosurgeon. I told the receptionist I wasn’t prepared to wait any more and that I wanted her to arrange me an appointment with someone else – I have no […]

There, if that is not educational, I don’t know what is View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, […]

‘That’s mine! That’s mine!’

Does what it says on the tin… Google Content Blocker

Me: Cod and chips, please. Fat Chipshop lady: Rat? Me: ? Me: ?? Me: ??? Me: Yes, wrapped, please.

It is so quiet, you can hear a name drop. They are all gone. On their way, left about half past twelve. ETD was ten o’clock, so that is within the usual margin of error.

Isn’t THIS just ridiculous!

  Percentage of vote Seats earned Seats handed out Labour 35.20% 227 356 Conservative 32.30% 209 197 Liberal Democrats 22.00% 142 62 Others 10.50% 68 31   100.00% 646 646 So, by and large, we didn’t vote New Labour. Bit of a mystery how we ended up with them in Government really, considering how few […]

The Register reports:- “If you send commercial data by email or over the Web, it’s liable for VAT (17.5 per cent value-added tax, imposed in the UK on services) on the value of the data. Which of course with commercial data can be quite high. But if you print that same data out and send […]