“Now for Irrational Express, an everyday drama of transport folk going slowly round the bend. Today, episode 297: The Spanish Inquisition, starring Jorge “deputy chairman” Cosmen and, in a supporting role, Brian “jilted” Souter (of Stagecoach fame).” So begins an article in the The Telegraph. Love it :-) And here’s a picture of a NatEx [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2009
Firefox Google searches
October 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Miscellaneous
Looking at my site statistics I notice that a lot of visitors use Firefox as their browser, so I do I. There has always been one thing which niggled me about Firefox – the search box (top right on the screen) always uses google.COM for searches not google.CO.UK which I’d much prefer. There are others [...]
Police Terrorise Citizens
October 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Zimbabwe
This is from the Kubatana blog. Thursday 8 October is a day that I will remember this year with bitter memories. This is what happened on the night of October 8. I was coming from a neighbouring township with my mzukulu (a grandson) at a round 2015hrs, and as we were about to cross the [...]
Back
October 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
We’re back again, not because we didn’t want to stay longer in South Wales, but because my mother who is 91 was visited by her GP yesterday and needs to be admitted to hospital. Monday was taken up by something of which I’ll write about later but it certainly couldn’t be classified as a thing [...]
A few days silence
October 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Miscellaneous
Essy and I are going away to South Wales for a few days. We need to be in Newport on Monday morning so we’re taking the caravan and spending tomorrow night and Monday night there for certain. After that it depends on the weather and how we’re liking South Wales. We’ve both got the week [...]
Any ‘legal eagles’ reading this?
October 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Miscellaneous
By chance I came across www.oyyy.co.uk and whilst looking around found Samsung SM215TW 21 inch WSXGA+ TFT LCD Monitors at £0.01+VAT with 6 in stock!! Too good a bargain to miss so I bought all 6 for £0.06 plus £2.99 for delivery. Here’s the confirmation of the purchase at £0.01 each which I made via [...]
