Magic Roundabouts

Hemel Hempstead has for many years reveled in the ownership of the maddest traffic roundabout ever to have succeeded in making the transition from drawing board to reality. It consists of one giant roundabout which has two way traffic (yes you read correctly) and mini satellite roundabouts at each junction with it. So [...]

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My second boat

Just over thirty years and three wives ago I bought my second boat. It was a 20 ft. marine ply cruiser. Built by Brooklands Aviation The Dolphin was an immensely pretty little boat and rumour had it that they were built from the packing cases that aircraft engines arrived in. Mine had seen [...]

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As I’ve gotten older things aren’t so hard……

Every now and then the news bubbles with stories of women impregnating themselves with their late husband’s sperm.  Usually the indignation is launched by those who should either keep their noses out (did I mean that?) or accept that their morals and beliefs have no place in the lives of others.
I always (being a simple [...]

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Tattoos?????

 
A question to you all………..
Tattoos?
Yes?
No?
Good?
Bad?
Attractive?
Ugly?
Would you?
Have you?
Well yesterday I was sitting in front of the television, counting my legs when suddenly the programme changed to tattoos.
After about 10minutes I couldn’t take any more. It was all about the one they hold in Edinburgh.
Now I find bagpipes irritating at the best of times. However I [...]

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The Doctors’ Receptionist

I don’t subscribe to the stereotypical whitewashing of a group of people simply becasue they do a particular job.  You know the sort of thing I’m referring to …. “Oh he’s a traffic warden is he? Bunch of little Hitlers all of them!”
However see what you make of this.
My doctor’s surgery runs a telephone repeat [...]

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Sainsburys insulting your intelligence

I popped into their mega sized store in Coventry recently and trundled along to the coffee aisle to see if there were any special offers to tempt me when I spotted that not only were there not any ………
“Buy two for only £6″
Or any such similar tempters but instead I espied a host of little [...]

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What’s my sex life got to do with The dole…??

Lucky me, I was given the opportunity to go on the dole recently for a couple of weeks.
During my interview with them they wanted to know why I was opting to work for only three days a week.
Of course the answer was because of my mental health issues and the medication I take which tends [...]

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Do I drink a lot? With shaky hands like these I spill most of it!

Me and doctors? Well ….. it’s a lot like last year’s tomato plants and The Horse Head Nebulae, different parts of space and time you see?  Differing needs, communication principles and a staggeringly opposed view of what each other actually is. 
Having said that, there is always the exception, and I’d just like to say three [...]

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Can you spare some change Mister….?

  It’s true what they say “Change Doesn’t Happen Overnight”. 
In fact I’d go further to say that any change that did happen in such a way probably wouldn’t have much of a life span anyhow.  Ask A. Hitler esq. about his thousand year Third Reich or Clive Sinclair how many millions of C5 electric cars [...]

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Help …. Confused by Technology

I can’t get this damned thing to work ………………. Doff was given a Scientific, Electronic, Wireless Weather Station for Christmas from her sister.
I’ve checked the batteries and they’re fine.  You have this screen thing with lots of options on it, which you put on the windowsill in the kitchen, and outside you nail this other [...]

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