Sunday, October 23, 2011

If I can't write in the box...

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According to an old diary I found, 45 years ago I watched my father filling in a tax form. I noticed he was busy rubbing a candle over part ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A mean trick to play on your wife

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I went rash and bought a new Kindle ebook today. 'Stairlift to Heaven' by Terry Ravenscroft. (@terryrazz) I'd heard the writer w...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

How to fix the mess the government is in.

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Browsing my Facebook account recently I came across this image copied from Revolution News Network's site: Now of course someone was ...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Odd Page on the Right - Creating a Book in Word 2010

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Like most authors, I use Microsoft Word and rapidly discovered one of it's limitations. Word insists on starting any new document on a ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Clairol nice'n difficult

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Shhh... don't tell anyone but my wife uses hair colourant. Clairol have been advertising on TV a product called nice'n easy colour b...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Well done Number 10!

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Today I went to the 'Number 10' website to find out if anyone had created a petition about one of my pet hates - VAT on ebooks. It t...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

That darn cat...

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...decided to have a lazy afternoon. ...decided that it wasn't a good idea to jump from the fence onto the surface of the neighbor's...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Installing MS Office 2010 - What a palaver!

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Having finally bought Microsoft Office 2010 to replace the pre -release version I've being using for the last year I sat down to install...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Facebook Games

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I wonder how many Facebook users have stopped to consider just how much money the writers of the more popular Facebook applications - especi...
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Friday, May 07, 2010

The Election. What went wrong?

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The UK held a general election on 6th May 2010 but things didn't quite go as smoothly as expected. here in the UK we've grown accus...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Climate Folly

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On the one hand we have the global warming alarmists who tell us we are heading for disaster due to carbon emissions. On the other hand we ...
Friday, April 16, 2010

NPower Still Doesn't Listen!

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You could read my previous blogs NPower doesn't listen and Maybe NPower does listen but let me save you a little time and summarise th...
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The most informative politics survey ever!

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I just came across an astonishing survey about the UK election campaign. Apparently some genius at the Daily Star decided to ask women aged...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Annoyances

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Has anything changed since 2010? We are now approaching 2018 and not much has changed. The world is full of minor irritations; things whic...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

NPower - How to shoot yourself in the foot

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A while ago I watched an advert for NPower in a survey. I hope that it's not one they are using on TV because it re-enforced my opinion ...
Saturday, January 02, 2010

Driving in snow and ice

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1st January 2010 saw what is considered 'heavy' snowfalls in most of the UK. In my own area of Northumberland six inches had fallen...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Climate conference/disaster/damp squib (COP15)

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Well the Copenhagen Climate Conference is over with nothing achieved. Lots of people attended and all that was achieved was a substantial co...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Toshiba Nano Mouse

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I just bought a new wireless mouse for my son's computer, a Toshiba Nano Wireless Laser mouse. I chose it because of the tiny USB dongle...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Remembering the Winter of 1963

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Looking outside (in-between downpours) I can't help noticing that this year we have had a bumper crop of berries, a greater fall of pine...
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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...