Oh Well

Tourist Remover

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This looks like a really useful tool for photographers in tourist areas Tourist Remover Of course, the Chinese got there first.

Useful Tool For PC Buyers

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The PC De-Crapifier On past experience with configuring new machines, this should prove a real time saver, although I must admit my new laptop come remarkably free of rubbish – for once IBM seem to have decided to install useful utilities instead of the usual pointless junk.

Then It Rained

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Quite a lot, I think we have had about an inch fall during the rather spectacular thunderstorms. Big has decided that thunderstorms are exciting not scarey, which is good. But really a rather grumpy day for everyone, cooped up inside.  

Eureka!

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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 the […]

Balls

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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 Sheffield waiting […]

Meanwhile

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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 (Mosquito) Get a teenager to listen to it for you. The Mosquito ringtone (I was a bit put out, in spite […]

Have you booked your holidays yet?

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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

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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 […]