Buggered if I know…

“We hear you Tranquillity Base, let’s solve it by borrowing more money…”
Is this the madness we are currently seeing?
I must disclose that I saw/heard some commentator make the very tongue in cheek observation that went something like:
“isn’t this clever - the original problem was caused by debt - so lets borrow more money to fix [...]

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Reader of these posts may have noticed that in the past I was musing about the point of lockable toilet roll dispensers (LTRDs). A kind of follow-up to those broodings was vouchsafed to me the other day when I visited the loo at the end of the corridor at work.
There was the LTRD on the [...]

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Bog roll, toilet paper, bathroom tissue. Call it what you like; we all use it. Well, most of us …
In fact, it used to be the case in the ‘good old days’ in Egypt that, when you went to visit an interesting site which had been open to the public for years and [...]

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Jeesh! I haven’t been employed, or resident, in the UK since Nov 2006. I advised Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs service (HMRC) of this during 2007 - in fact I received a tax refund sometime mid-year (because I hadn’t work the whole year in the UK hence was over taxed).
Today I received a letter (posted [...]

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Just in case you haven’t understood (and, presuming, you give a hoot) the sub-prime mortgage (meat?) market here’s a piece which might explain it by John Fortune & John Bird…

All clear now?

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The question has been asked before many times, but it came spludging into the puddle of goo that passes for my brain whilst I was waiting to be seen by a specialist at a hospital nearby (oh, OK, I’ll level with you, it was Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge, UK). On arrival, I’d been handed a sheaf of [...]

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Why is it that some of us get so personally upset about things that really are beyond our control?
From the purely local irritation, like a bureaucratic stupidity, to the apparent unwillingness of the people who really can make some difference to actually grasp the nettle of climate change — these things really get to me [...]

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Boing Boing is reporting that the Canadian federal government, via their mint, is demanding that the city of Toronto pay nearly 50,000 bucks in royalties for using the word ‘one cent’ and images of the Canadian one cent piece in their campaign to lobby the federal government for a bigger piece of the GST pie.
Given [...]

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