“Taking Christ out of Christmas is like serving the Christmas turkey without the stuffing,” says Tory MP Mark Pritchard. As both a pagan and a vegetarian, I’ll have to take his word for it…
It’s been quite a while now since we moved out of the flat we rented for nine years and into a house of our own – but for one reason or another we’re only just in the process of giving notice.
Today we were back there cleaning carpets and painting window frames – and we [...]
The first installment of Channel 4's The Games has just ended, with Cornish Liberal Democrat MP Julia Goldsworthy placed third of five in the women's contest after suffering a dunking in the white-water kayaking despite being the pre-contest favourite.
Looking at her contestant page on the C4 website, bits read as if it came off a [...]
This is utterly ridiculous.
The car's almost out of petrol and I've now made four attempts to refill it today. Failed every time because of the effects of wombats panic-buying.
Twice during the daylight hours I went to petrol stations only to be driven off by queues that stretched into the next county. A third time the [...]
The dial-up connection dropped on our PC for a few minutes, and in that short space of time we got an incoming call – one of a sort that have been coming in for years now (see here).
Caller: Hello, is that Brent Council?
Me: It's not even slightly Brent Council, it's a private house in the [...]
A journal of things that catch my eye or make me cross, by an ex-journalist and former liberal politician in East Anglia. Often contains photos, sometimes politics, never 1337, w00t!
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