“Cutting school run ‘saves lives’. Insurer More Than says staggering school times could cut deaths Reducing the number of children being driven to school would save hundreds of lives on the roads, a study says.” Hmm, anyone for home ed?
Top Ten Excuses
With apologies to Jonathan who has been at work today and who has therefore spent the morning reading The Register “The Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership, aka “Safe speed for life” has just published its top 10 excuses for geting nobbled by a speed, sorry, safety camera.” I had passed out after seeing flashing lights, which […]
Little Red Rooster
You are a rooster! No, don’t get me wrong! Every one simply LOVES you. You seem to know just what everyone likes. Happiness can be found anywhere for you! What Celtic Bird Are You? brought to you by Quizilla
Excellent!
Someone should show Gordon Brown how you are supposed to add trend lines to graphs. I have a bad feeling that he approaches financial forecasting for the country with the same naïve optimism that I approach my own.
Talking of Google.
Our kids deserve better than a Google future
Headlines
here are some of today’s from the Beeb: “Royle wants to keep striker Bent” “Students not robots, says Charles” The first is, you will have guessed, a football story, the second clearly illustrates the benefits to be derived from a public school education.
A Levels are not what they were…
My kind of A level “An exam board has agreed to include boxing on the list of sports that can be studied for its A-level in PE.”
Spam (a canned meat made largely from pork)
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A Word A Year
The spirit of the times, or should that be Zeitgeist? 1904 hip 1905 whizzo 1906 teddy bear 1907 egghead 1908 realpolitik 1909 tiddly-om-pom-pom 1910 sacred cow 1911 gene 1912 blues 1913 celeb 1914 cheerio 1915 civvy street 1916 U-boat 1917 tailspin 1918 ceasefire 1919 ad-lib 1920 demob 1921 pop 1922 wizard 1923 hem-line 1924 lumpenproletariat […]
Swedish Tax
All the best things are taxed, beer, fags…… I am wondering how this will be charged? Flat rate or sliding scale?