Tuesday, October 20, 2009

UK Education?

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Today the BBC news wrote that truancy in UK schools was at a record high, 1.03% of school sessions being missed without permission. "Mi...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Choosing Genealogy Software

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For the past few months I've been trying out genealogy software to see how they compare against each other. According to some sources tr...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

I'm never going to win the lottery...

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Don't get me wrong. I never really expected to win because I only buy one ticket for each of the Saturday and Wednesday draws so my odds...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Advice to spammers and scammers

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No - I'm not going to tell you to see if you can head butt a 5 ton truck travelling at 70mph; (well you can if you want); this blog is a...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Maybe NPower does listen - eventually!

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If you've followed this blog you might have seen my post ' NPower doesn't listen ' in which I related the tale of how Npower...
Friday, July 03, 2009

Totally forgettable restaurants

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There are lots of good restaurants out there and some which have even poisoned their clients but I've also come across some where the fo...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Whae nettled the teacher?

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My father met Dick Phillipson in a pub and persuaded him to help us out on our small hill farm. He was already in his 60s but he had a tract...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What a Con!+

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Con 1 - The BNP Doctor It's election time for the EEC parliament and today I got a mailshot promoting the British National Party. On it ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

How to get your web pages noticed

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Many brilliant web pages go unnoticed because search engines simply have not 'discovered them' or your page is listed hopelessly far...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

Electric Blanket Safety - Morphy Richards Winterwarm

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I'm making this post because of a disturbing safety issue which I feel there should be a record on the Web about. It could have killed u...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

Danone - Should it be Damn One?

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You must have seen the adverts for Danone products Activia Yogurt. We buy the fig and date versions and decided to try the peach and vanilla...
Friday, March 13, 2009

BT's Important Messages

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A couple of days ago I got a letter from BT marked 'Important documents inside - Not a circular.' "Must be a bill" I thoug...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Aaagh! Spam!

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Just 27 minutes into 2009 I got sent my first spam e-mail of the year - from someone signing herself as Beverly and who suggested I go to he...
Friday, November 14, 2008

NPower doesn't listen!

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(Addresses and names have been changed to protect NPower's victims) When I moved in April 2008 I kept the existing electricity supply - ...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The last sound

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Is the world going to end with a bang - or with a whimper? What about that bit in Revelations - The last trump? The one thing we can ...
Monday, October 13, 2008

I'm sick of 'Doom and Gloom'

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If you listen to the media it's all bad news. The stock market is dropping, the banks are failing, we all need to take swimming lessons ...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

BT Anywhere Broadband?

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A catalogue of delivery failures. Since I moved house to an area without cable broadband I've been using Virgin Media 'Up to 8 MB...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

On My Cat

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OK - I admit it. The picture is a fake. The anvil is made of papier mache. Now if I just wait here - maybe... Now I know you guys are moving...