This should be more fun than the 2012 Olympics, and a sight cheaper! Boris or Ken?
What are you like?
What are you like? (BBC Quiz) Strategist The four aspects that make up this personality type are: Spontaneous, Ideas, Heads and Introvert Summary of Strategists Quiet, easy-going and intellectually curious Use logical, objective thinking to find original solutions to problems Think of themselves as bright, logical and individualistic May be impractical, forgetting practical issues, such […]
Catherine Who?
Catherine Tate, John Simm and Alexandra Moen “Comedian Catherine Tate is to play Doctor Who’s new companion, reprising her role from the 2006 Christmas special, the BBC has announced.” (BBC) Oh no, no, no. I found her deeply irritating in the Christmas Special. Mind you, I just find her generally irritating. I liked Billie Piper […]
Sid The Mosquito
When I collected Lily from uni she gave me a book to read to Big and Small. She said it was her favourite book when she was little. The book is a collection of short stories set amongst the animal inhabitants of a deserted house and garden. We finished reading it tonight. Big was very […]
Diplomas pose basic skills hurdle
“The Diplomas that are central to government plans for 14-19 learning are said to be at risk because teenagers cannot manage the basic skills. The QCA qualifications watchdog foresaw “a significant impact on pass rates”. The required “functional” skills in literacy, numeracy and computing may put them off taking the new courses, a mix of […]
ABC
Song lyrics by Alex Glasgow (with a nod to Three Score Years And Ten – where thanks are also due for introducing me to this from a Dentist in Baghdad.)
Tim goes camping
The hardships I endure to spend time with my family. The Belstead Brook Hotel sits in nine acres of tranquil gardens, alongside a willow-lined stream. The original 16th Century hunting lodge is still very much at the heart of the hotel, housing our restaurant, bar and private dining rooms. etc.
It is only Sheffield, after all
“The government has not understood the scale, gravity and severity of what has happened” the rescue effort is the “biggest in peacetime Britain”(Fire Brigades Union, General Secretary Matt Wrack). But heck, the Government is in London, and they were busy playing their political games and glad-handing each other. Bearing in mind we have had not […]
Today's big story
On the BBC is Bliar handing over to Brown. They have expensive outdoor camera crews all over London filming Jaguar cars and people going off for lunch at the Treasury. And in the real world, quite a lot of the people who put Bliar and Brown into power are baling out their homes, and wondering […]
They’re off camping!!!
In pouring rain, and with an immediate diversion to avoid this…….. Which is about one hundred yards from our house, fortunately, we are a couple of feet higher. I was disappointed when some people at the other end of the flood dissuaded a moron in a little Suzuki 4WD from trying to drive through it. […]