Posted in Good on 26. Nov, 2009
My dad, eh, been out and about chopping trees down all his life. He’s an active sort of guy, likes using saws and hammers and stuff – and so when he was presented with opportunity to remove the (very heavy) cover of his well (he lived up in the hills at this point) he jumped at the chance. Much to his surprise, he did his back in. He really needed to see an osteopath.
Posted in Good on 19. Nov, 2009
Web design has become big business, and while there are many places around the world where you can get cheap web design, most British based companies still choose to go with a home grown web service. Some companies believe that only companies based in London are able to provide the level of service required, but a middle ground might be getting more provincial web design. Essex is a good example of this.
Posted in Good on 17. Nov, 2009
I went to the holiday home insurance company and tried to get insured. “What kind of property do you want to insure, sir?” the girl behind the holiday home insurance counter asked politely.
“well I said, I it’s quite modest, not too big at all.”
“Is it a cottage sir?” she asked.
Posted in Good on 12. Nov, 2009
I’m not sure if my bedroom has underfloor heating. Unless I’m very much mistaken, it has the exact opposite of this superb Roman invention. It is above a car port, which in simple terms means that it is above nothing.
Posted in Good on 26. Oct, 2009
I visited Norwich recently, a place I’d once been to for an interview with a large multi-national. The interview was by and large a colossal failure, but it interested me, on my recreational return, to note that there was an underlying dislike of all things Norwich.
It is so easy to have one’s impression of a place be coloured by one event; everyone in Norwich is a patronising corporate ass wipe, right? Wrong, of course, as my visit demonstrated. It is actually one of the prettiest cities in England, I would say, although it was slightly let down by the fact that my reasonably priced, modern, cosy hotel room was directly above a Metallica tribute band in the pub below.
Posted in Good on 02. Oct, 2009
Chairs. Without chairs, life would be literally like sitting on the floor. We’d all be in our little air-conditioned offices sitting on bean bags, trying to reach our PCs on the table. In basic terms, it’s a good thing we have chairs. Wicked product design.
Posted in Good on 29. Sep, 2009
Tell me I’m not allowed to know something, and I want to know it NOW, which is perhaps why I’ve long been fascinated (borderline obsessed) with North Korea and its Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il.
Shrouded in secrecy, the platform-shoe-wearing bouffant-haired old alcoholic would have you believe that a double rainbow and bright star graced the sky to mark his birth.
Posted in Good on 23. Sep, 2009
Routine makes the world go round. Without routine, we probably wouldn’t enjoy the kind of safe, organised life we enjoy in this country. But the problem is that routine is boring. But boredom is the price we pay for safety.
Posted in Good on 21. Sep, 2009
Nothing riles my inner Socialist like banks. Bank charges; bank loans; banks getting it wrong and messing up the economy.
And there’s nothing like a full-blown recession to kick-start a blame campaign. There are 2.47 million people out of work right now. The greedy, nasty banks got us all into this.
Posted in Good on 08. Sep, 2009
I can’t believe I’ve only just this week discovered, thanks to my mate Bob, the brilliant website idea-a-day.com. The archives of unbelievably logical ideas allowed me to while away the first half hour of in the office this morning with ease.
