Got it right!

“You still suck!” is an interesting alternative to a wrestling crowd’s chant of “This is awful!” Which it was.

Irrelevant Posturing

Does anyone really care that the Doomsday Clock has been put at one and a half minutes to midnight?
    Shame the characters who play with it can’t find something useful to do.

The truth hurts

Good crack from Littlejohn in the Mail about public sector whingers: he was surprised that Dominic Raab was able to find any civil servants to bully, a.k.a. telling them to do the job they’re overpaid to do, with the Skive @ Home culture in full swing.

Take Action!

Has it ever occurred to the people who complain about being bombarded with online filth & death threats to restructure their internet presence so that only people they know can contact them?
    Or to hire a robust social secretary if they’re in the alleged entertainment biz?
    Maybe not.

Blast from the past

|On Sunday, a reminder that the creator of the wonderful Babylon 5 sci-fi series, J. H. Straczynski, also wrote episodes of Murder, She Wrote. This was about nasty, vindictive Irish people, not the usual cuddly ones usually imagined by Americans.

Well, obviously

One of the £32K foodbankers was offering the cost of housing as a reason for struggling. Which invites the obvious question: “Why don’t you take your talents to somewhere affordable and struggle less?”

Next stop?

The PM should put sacked Tory chairman Zahawi into the House of Lords and get him to sit next to the appalling Tom Watson. Then defy Sir Smarmer to say anything about it.

Surplus word

Do I need to know how some people reckon the word quinoa should be pronounced?
    Never cropped up in conversation, so no.

Panic a bit too soon?

There are panic-mongering ‘experts’ who claim that AI systems could go rogue and wipe out the human race during the 2100s.
    As they have no idea what human life will be like then, the best thing to do is pat them on the head and tell them to “Calm down, dear.”

Expert Witness

If the wife of the rapist who’s running rings round Wee Burney and the Scottish legal system says he’s bullshitting the authorities, maybe they should listen.
    She’s likely to know what she’s talking about.
    Or maybe that’s a concept that politicians can’t grasp.

Crumbs!

A Cambridge academic reckons giving friends & relatives helpful (you hope) advice is a violation of their basic human right to make a bog of things and the best thing to do is keep your trap shut and let them flounder.
    There are some seriously weird people around in jobs that should require sensible ones.

Irresponsibility as a way of life

Running the British economy into the ground – the Gordon Brown Special – Sir Smarmer told his party conference is a bad idea and Labour shouldn’t forget this.
    Like that’s ever going to happen!

Just talk

All this rubbish about putting the pension age up earlier than announced is just that – talk.
    That Hunt bloke won’t be around much longer and he certainly won’t have the final say on when the pension age changes.

Still on councils

Someone has been having a go at one of our local councillors, who has felt the need to issue an assurance that out local dustmen & recyclers will not ignore bins with a lid that’s frozen shut!

No need to worry

After a comprehensive survey of people I know, I can report that the Canadian scare story about more than two alcoholic drinks per week is dangerous is utter tripe.
    Or maybe we Brits are made of stronger stuff than Canuks.

Oh, how tough!

Councils are always after motorists for fines for failing to spot deliberately bad signs. I was amused to read that they have lost out on huge amounts of fine cash because postal strike delays have made their demands arrive too late to be legally enforceable.

Even More

I bet the residents in Leicestershire whose bins aren’t emptied if the lid is frozen shut don’t get a council tax rebate for a service not rendered.

More Mick

That warm spell the forecasters were going on about doesn’t seem to have been all that wonderful. Even though the sun is shining today. The big yellow splurges on their maps look more like wishful thinking than reality.

More boguses

There seems to be no danger of politicians being able to spot ‘transgender’ blokes who are obviously taking the mick.

Bogus Bunch

There seems to be no danger of the Advertising Standards Authority doing its job and jumping all over the crap about smart meters saving the world from global warming.
    Their real and only purpose is to allow energy suppliers to charge their mugs different rates according to the demand as an alternative to ensuring there’s sufficient affordable energy available all the time.

Welcome back!

The reports that getting on for 60% of the population are taking more out of the public pot than they put in to it is getting people wonder if that classic Labour isn’t working and the big queue poster from the 1970s will be recycled with the strap line Britain isn’t working as a knocking job on theTories.

Bullet-holed Foot

The claim that people on £32K are using them has done food banks a lot of no good. Their donations are dropping like the proverbial stone as people with a lower income stop donating.

Not so trivial

You have to wonder about the sanity of the city council of San Francisco, which is reported to want to give every confirmed black person $5 MILLION as compensation for slavery which didn’t happen in California.
    That’s going to cost the city’s taxpayers $40 BILLION.

Totally Trivial

You have to wonder what the point of that Starmer bloke is if all he can make a big deal out of is the PM not wearing a seat belt. Let us not forget that this is the man who kept Jimmy Savile out of gaol by encouraging Tom Watson (to whom he gave a peerage) to get the police looking for a vast, imaginary child abuse and murder ring of top Tories.

Some pruning needed

Any viewers who find Christopher Lee wearing make-up to play the Fu Manchu character offensive should be dropped into a deep dark hole and abandoned.

No concern

Britain is still colder than most of mainland Europe, despite climate change. And if they are coping with their climate okay, we just have to copy their best practices and stop listening to the professional merchants of doom and all the outright fraudsters.

Faint Praise

“No one does Westerns like TCM Movies” invites the response: “No, everyone else does them much better!”

Gusher!

Not so much running as sprinting – my nose when I ventured out into yesterday’s chill.

Nowt to shout about

Last week and into the weekend, we kept being shown a big yellow gush of warm air approaching the UK from the south-west on weather maps. It turns out to have been a one-day wonder.
    Yesterday morning was warm and quite pleasant with the sun shining. Then it clouded over.
    No wonder no one takes weather forecasts all that seriously.

Much gnashing of teeth

NFL fans were feeling short-changed by Sky TV, which gave a couple of the divisional round NFL matches an hour-long highlights slot but didn’t show a quarter of each match and stuffed in about 25 minutes of pointless fillers.

Something to ponder

58% of the population are scroungers who take more from the state than they contribute to its upkeep.
    And that’s under what is supposed to be a Conservative government.
    This percentage is likely to rise under a Labour government but the amount going to the scroungers will decrease when the wealthy and wealth-creators go elsewhere.

Wasted effort

Do we really need a new film version of All Quiet on the Western Front when we have the book by Erich Remarque and the 1930s film?
    Okay, the luvvie are drooling over it but something new and original would have been nice.

Instant recognition

How do you tell at a glance it’s a picture of Andy Murray in the paper? No one else has a wide-open gob that big!

Ignore, Ignore, Ignore

The most common opinion about those Canadian nutters who claim that more than 2 alcoholic drinks per week is dangerous seems to be that they were desperate to be noticed and that booze thing was the daftest notion they could come up with.
    Same story with the wobbler who reckons bringing cake into the workplace should be made a capital crime.

GRRB to Grrrr!

How can you tell that Wee Burney Sturgeon is on a loser with her gender-bender crusade? If Mad Mandy in the Sunday Post thinks she’s being daft, Burney is toast.

Ayy-Ee-Dub!

I still think that a crowd @ a wresting event sounds like it is doing a “This is awful” chant rather than one claiming that what they’re seeing is awesome.
    No mistaking the “Asshole!” chant’s message, though.
    Still, if the grappling gets boring, you can always watch the antics of that lady ref if she’s on show.

Quick decision

Would I pay 75% over the odds for Japanese white strawberries that don’t taste like the proper red ones?
    Kindly include me out.

Species characteristic

Labour MPs shouting down one of their own female members? Well, they are Labour louts. And Starmer having nothing to say about it is unremarkable for a zero with the rim rubbed off.

Another BFD

A man from London getting a fine for not wearing a seat belt in a moving vehicle as a passenger whilst making a partly political broadcast. Even if he’s the Prime Minister.
    No one got killed and are we seriously expected to think that everyone will be doing it now, following his example, as the looneys are claiming?

A bit late

Complaints about the Shock death of high street banks do nothing but provoke mocking grins around here. We haven’t had any bank branches nearby for years.

Helps to fill up the air-time

There’s a storm on the internet about how often you should wash your clothes, I heard on GB Views last night. Sounds like there are lots of people around with nothing constructive to do.

A needed word

A bloke was taking exception to the word guesstimate in the paper the other day, insisting that things had to be one or the other; a guess or an estimate.
    He clearly doesn’t realize that it’s a valid term for when a guess by someone on the public payroll is being touted as the product of a real-world calculation process as part of another attempt to swindle the taxpayer.

Some tidying up overdue

I suppose it’s too much to hope that all this nonsense about people having a vocation to do something can be ditched? It’s all about the money now. All the present endless series of strikes confirm that.
    And it has been like that for years. Mr. Chips is long gone.

Not that hot a deal

There’s a TV advert offering a 1/8th gold sovereign for £69 until the end of next month, when the price shoots up to £149.
    Today’s price for a full gold sovereign is £410. Just going on the gold content, the same weight of the wafer-thin sovereigns would cost £552 now and £1192 from March 1st. Plus the £4.99 postage. Dear do.

Plank Personality

Despite all his energetic leaping about, Prime Minister Sunak’s TV performances are being described as just as wooden as those given by Gordon Brown.
    Sounds like his enemies are getting really desperate for something to moan about.

Radical thought

If throwing more cash at the NHS doesn’t improve it, maybe the government should start cutting the budget, and keep doing it as long as the chaos remains at the current level.

It’s called politics

No matter what the Tories do as part of their levelling agenda, Labour & theGrauniad will tell transparent lies about it. More like the politics of the nursery than the gutter.

Brain Fade

“Driving home for Christmas – The UK’s most-loved routes” spotted in a paper going into the recycling bin. BFD
    If the route doesn’t take you home, you’re not likely to be interested in viewing it. But maybe whoever put this in the paper had been to one too many boozy lunches.

Just bloody rude

“Search” has been turned into the rudest word in the language if you fail to press the mute button when TV adverts are on. There’s always some bozo ordering you to search something. Never a ‘please’ along with it, of course. And never the realization that maybe you switched the TV on to watch something not bloody search stuff on the interweb.
    Cue some foul language in return.

Space-fillers

If it wasn’t for the fantasies of Prince Hairy and the stupidities of the woke crews running the nation’s universities, newspapers would be a lot thinner. And getting to the crosswords would be a much quicker job.

Don’t get ill

All the plans for fixing the NHS seem to involve doing things that won’t have any effect for decades. Maybe what we need is a dictator, who will take the hard decisions about booting the civil service Blob into touch and make things start happening right away.

It works

Some chat about bed-making and New Year resolutions. But as the only reason to make your bed is to prevent the window cleaner from thinking you’re a slob, it is no longer necessary.
    Not now that first-floor windows are done over with a brush with hose on the end of a long pole.
    Ground-floor and basement residents are excluded from this opinion. And attic-dwellers as I don’t think the long poles are long enough to tackle their windows.

Wonderful Idea

Corrupt blair Labour wrecked the GP service but the bloke who didn’t put Jimmy Savile in gaol has a brilliant idea for a fix. According to Sir Starmer, people should be able to by-pass GPs and go straight to a hospital consultant to demand treatment for whatever they think is wrong with them.
    Genius, or what?

Nebulous Fame

Why have I never heard of the American actress who won a goldarn globe? Scanning the list, the blame lies on her. She’s never been in anything I’ve ever felt like watching.

Killer crossword clue

Entrances (10). All I could think of was something to do with doorways. But shift the emphasis one syllable to the right for the answer – Spellbinds!

Rewrite, Rewrite!

Following the success of the trans version of The Four Just Men, we can expect the same treatment for A Man For All Seasons. And The Schmuck From UNCLE probably won’t be able to escape.

Done-With Days

“May all your Christmases be white” was sung in a film last night. There’s not a doubt that the woke wankers wouldn’t let them get away with a sentiment like that these days.

No Sale!

January Sale Now On, I read. But why would anyone want to buy Januarys? A miserable, cold dark month with nothing to recommend it. Especially as it’s the host of Miserable Monday!
    Not for me.

Give it a rest

Don’t you just wish the TV companies would stop polluting the end of programmes you want to watch with on-screen bottom pop-ups for stuff you don’t want to know about?
    Give us the programmes and shut up.

Shoot the lot, Ranger!

Why is there no peace in Ireland? Last night’s episode of Walker, Texas Ranger explained it – too many kill-crazy, IRA-supporting Americans with mockney Irish accents, equally fake lists of grievances and lots and lots of bombs & guns. And a Catholic church full of professional hand-wringers.
    It’s hugely surprising they can still show that episode in these days of PC run wild.

Time Waster

Was it worth arranging the burst of snow we got this morning? Not long after it stopped, the sun came out and it all vanished. And the Mansion cat was busting a gut to get out into the sunshine after a spell scowling on the doormat.

Ludicrous Proposition

If the assassin’s bullet had missed, Martin L. King might have been celebrating his 94th birthday yesterday, I read. Right.
    How many blokes live that long? Precious few. And a determined assassin would have brought more than one bullet to use if the first one missed. And Mr. King wasn’t exactly known for being a quiet, reasonable type who could get on with people.

Right off the beam

There was an article in the Sunday Post claiming breakfast TV changed the way we watch forever. Wrong!
    Never watched it myself, never will. And I’m sure there are lots more like me, Professor.
    TV is something for the evening when you’ve sorted the day out. Or not.

Free idea

Maybe they should remake the ancient series The Four Just Men and make it a sitcom about four main characters, who were all women until a couple of months before the start of the series.

Essential

If the Prime Minister wants to get a fight-back against clueless Labour on the road, he needs to sack all of the party’s current crew of spin doctors, who have no idea what happens in the real world or what counts there.

Hazard to life & limb

I definitely do not approve of turn indicators on cars that are just a few tiny amber dots on a wing mirror rather then something visible with the sidelights.
    I almost had an encounter with a car like that this morning. I was about to cross the road at a T-junction when I decided that the behaviour of an approaching car suggested that it was going to turn toward me. It wasn’t until it got close enough to make the turn that I spotted the tiny ambler dots.
    The designer who came up with this idea should be put up against a wall and shot. And so should the clown at the Transport Department who let his company get away with this frankly dangerous idea.

Sounds likely

The reason Prince Hairy is such a wonk is now seen as due to all the drugs he scoffed in his somewhat younger days. Or should that be daze?
    The more he grouses, the less we think of him.

The importance of a well-nourished chest

Stories in the paper suggest it’s better for women to have a baby at home and avoid the NHS, as in the olden days, because the current NHS is unsafe. Worse, it’s run by idiots talking about chestfeeding and similar rot.

Some cheer, but not much

There was an article in the paper the other day by an academic who thinks all our problems are solvable if people with a bit of brain-power are given their head.
    The big problem is that once global warming and over-priced power & gas are no longer issues, the prophets of doom will still be in full whinge mode about something else.
    Not so much a case of you can’t win, rather you’re not supposed to.

Time Out

Is it reasonable to hope for a rest from Prince Hairy for a week or two? Reasonable, yes. Likely to happen, no. Nothing more important is happening in the world, the alleged news services seem to think.
    A rest from train drivers on £60k going on strike would be nice, too.

Fair question

Someone was wondering if there are still any hosepipe bans in operation despite the million flood warnings issued for England & Wales. It’s something that does sound likely, given the way things work today. Or don’t.

Good idea

Yes, why not let the Taliban put Prince Hairy and Putin the Poisoner on trial in their Islamist court for their crimes against humanity.

Um, er

Yesterday, I read that binge-eating for comfort might be bad for you. Don’t you just wish the people who blow our cash on these ‘studies’ would come to a definite conclusion once in a while? If other experts are yelling that every excess has bad consequences, why should bing-eating be any different?

Some relief

No need to worry about this being Friday the 13th. The trade unions are hell-bent on making every day a disaster.

Zero Man

Winston Churchill famously told the nation he had nothing to offer but blood, tears, toil and sweat.
    Sir boozy Starmer has simplified the whole concept. He has nothing to offer.

Worst one yet

“June” – do they Jules M’Aigret?
“Woman” – that’s his wife!
    Have we got the C-Team doing the sub-titles?
A doctor smoking! Disgraceful!
“assermation”? There’s no such bloody word. Assignation – not even close.
“The wealth of your word” – do they mean worth?
    I think we got the Z-team.

Not us, Gov

What’s all this crap about Britain’s attempt to launch satellites being a flop?
    Since when was Mr. Branston’s Virgin company ‘Britain’?

The People’s Choice

With all those GBs going on strike, watching a recording of the Schmuck from Uncle was a much better alternative to the 6 p.m. news yesterday.

Rejecting the Starmer List

“Like a Labour government . . .” ever does anything but waste vast amounts of our money, run up huge debts and leave behind one hell of a mess for the Tories to clean up.
    And like a Starmer ever does anything useful, such as putting a notorious child molester in gaol instead of helping Tom Watson to confect a huge Tory gang of child abusers and murders.

Kind of obvious

Why doesn’t the Prime Minister simply say he’s not using up NHS resources because he’s healthy?

Make yer mind up!

What are they doing at Weather Control today? Bright sunshine when I went out shopping. Rain when I set off home from the supermarket. Then the sun out again for a while when I was indoors.

New on TV?

Medical-based series seem popular with the BBC. Maybe they’ll revive the M*A*S*H franchise if the Health Service decides to put tent camps near overwhelmed NHS hospitals to help out a bit.

Bit of a gamble

Prudence would have been no satellites aboard the Virgin launcher that did a NASA and didn’t manage to get the job done. But that’s not how they operate.

Same old, same old

Go to the Sky recording of the Patriots at the Bills and get 22 minutes of unwanted cricket and no 4th quarter.
    The Giants @ the Eagles started before the recording did. But at least the fans got to see all the scoring and all the important stuff.

Bare-faced

Will we be wearing masks again? No seems to be the general opinion. Back over a decade ago, the medical advice for the flu epidemic was that wearing face masks wouldn’t stop it spreading. The masks would just remind everyone to be careful.
    If the government is looking for another way to waste our money, maybe they could issue free hats with a suitable slogan to remind us to keep our distance from potential plague carriers.

Job well done

The Royal Family seems to be getting the blame for driving the appalling Megan and her hairy husband out of the UK. A genuine service to the nation, then.

Empty Words

Out climate is getting warmer, the Global Warming Fraudsters yell with both hands held out for more cash. But an average temperature here of 10.3 degrees Centigrade is cold whichever way you look at it.

Same old

Try to watch the hilites of the Lions at the Packers on Sky and what do you get? Three of the quarters due to sloppy slot management. If you’re lucky.

And the odd bit of fantasy

Putin the Poisoner called a unilateral truce in the combat zones of Ukraine then proceeds to break it right away. A good illustration of how trustworthy he is.

Scope for the odd bit of truth

“Prince Hairy’s latest book is all about putting the ‘Alice’ into malice.” Sounds like fair comment.

Yes, there’s the odd laugh

That’s an interesting mental image, Prince William breaking his hairy brother’s necklace, leaving Hairy skidding about the kitchen floor on the unstrung pearls.

Entertainment off the menu

A new episode of Midsomer Murders on ITV bumped by that creep Hairy’s whinges? Wonderful.

Back to Normal

Wall to wall Jessica Fletcher on Saturday & Sunday evening, and The Schmuck from UNCLE on weekday mornings.
    Takes your mind off all the strikes and other appalling stuff.

Not thrilled

True Grit is on 5Action tonite. No mention of The Dook in the programme info. Ah, it’s a 2010 remake. Why? The John Wayne version is all we need.

One way out

What’s Prince Hairy’s next move after selling his soul down the river with his daft book?
    One thing he could do is claim he has just escaped from being held prisoner on a remote ranch in the badlands all the book & TV stuff was done by a good lookalike of him!

Abstinence January

It’s the dieting season again with lots of recipes on offer. Is coleslaw any good? It’s hard to feel any enthusiasm for something with the name ‘cold slug’ indelibly attached to it!

Well, why not?

The NHS, I read, is considering setting up tent hospitals in areas where the customers are particularly unhealthy and overwhelming what’s on offer locally.
    Will there be a TV series along the lines of M*A*S*H in due course?

Election Wisdom

No matter who gets in, they will make a balls up of it while stuffing cash into the pockets of their cronies.
    So you might as well have a bit of fun and vote for the Monster Raving Looney Party candidate.

Up is the only direction of screwing

How do you get the sub-titles, which were doing okay at the start of a film, running about five minutes early? The Comedy Central Channel can do it.
    Is it possible that the left a separate sub-title channel running when the film was stopped for a 5-minute ad break? That’s our current best guess.

Down the rabbit hole

I was surprised to read that Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is behind all the attachment of slavery links to the Parliamentary collection of artefacts.
    The old boy seems to have gone senile with a rush. Shame.

Lest we forget . . .

Pope Benedict’s catch phrase, we have been reminded, was: “You think I know bugger nothing; well, I know bugger all.”

Instant Appreciation

If you want to see a display of genuine enthusiasm, open a tin of tuna when a cat isn’t rampaging outdoors.

Who’s the imposter?

Are there two Prince Hairys? One who’s moaning that his big brother battered him to a pulp and another who personally killed 25 Talibandits with his bare hands when he was an Army officer in Afghanistan?

Don’t Panic!

The good news for anyone who’s struggling with monumental fuel bills is that our climate is getting warmer and keeping ourselves at a comfortable temperature will become cheaper.

So that’s why!

My thanks to Dominic Lawson of the Daily Mail for revealing the real reason why England’s football team does the Knee of Shame before a match.
    It’s a hint they all deserve a K!

Modern Labour of Hercules

Getting modern domestic fuel to ignite is one, according to a neighbour who likes a coal fire. Worse, the moulded stuff on offer seems to be 10% coal and 90% cement, which forms the world’s best thermal insulator on combustion.
    As a spin-off, my neighbour gets lots of exercise from raking the grate with a poker to keep the pestky stuff glowing redly.

How weird

The way UNCLE agents and bad guys push a gun in the direction of the target when they try to shoot someone is most peculiar. But it does explain why they miss so often.

Yes, they are

That news item about people with classic cars not using ‘smart’ motorways is spot-on. I know a couple of them who are doing just that.
    Why take the risk with something irreplaceable?

Some recompense

Nice to see that Lady Susan Hussey, whose life was trashed by that appalling Fulani woman, is getting an apology from the Royals in the form of an invitation to the Coronation.

Failure to communicate

What did you get if you recorded the Monday Night Football Bills vs the Bengals hilites from Sky?
    A scooty wee version of previous Thursday night’s match between the Cowboys and the Titans with no explanation that the MNF match was called off after a player calamity.
    How much does it cost to add an on-screen caption as a courtesy to the paying customers?

Maintaining Motion

Electric cars are fine for zipping about locally; if you have your own charging point, as the Mansion does. But if you’re going any distance, it has to be a hybrid or a car using proper fuel.
    Everyone who isn’t an idiot, or desperate enough to ignore reality, knows that charging points are few & far between, and lots are the wrong type or broken and never fixed.

Well, why not?

Are we really expected to believe that a glass of wine (grape juice) and strawberry jam (fruit) don’t count to the 5-a-day? Or is it 8? Or 13? If the idea is daft, nothing should be excluded from the general daftness, including mockery of the idea.

Pragmatic 3

The late Queen Elizabeth doesn’t really need a tag, such as ‘The Great’. There haven’t been that many queens with that name and if it’s not obvious from the context which one is being referred to, then the writer/speaker is a flop.

Pragmatic 2

“Just 3 generations separated the footballer Pele from slavery”, I read. Okay, that’s the best part of a century, which means that slavery had zero influence on his life in Brazil and trying to confect a connection is an insult to his memory.

Pragmatic 1

The concept of battling cancer is weird. You put up with it, you survive it if the medical profession can do anything for you but that’s about it.

Nice one

The William Tell Tavern, All the Apples You Can Eat.
    Who says the UNCLE scriptrotters have no sense of humour!

Fair shares for all

That was a good point about global warming someone made. Why can’t we have warmer winters in the northern parts of the world? Why should the equatorials be allowed to hog all the heat?

What a bloody cheek!

Pinching the author’s name and the title of a book by H.G. Wells for a film called The Shape Of Things To Come made in 1979 is bad enough but rewriting the story and doing it badly is too f-ing much.
    Even worse is the ancient computer technology (to current eyes). What was it? A Space 1999 rip-off? With a nod in the direction of the contemporary Buck Rogers?
    “Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?”
    “Not this load of cobblers, that’s for sure.”

Getting in first

Curiously, there was some nutter in the distance letting off fireworks in the rain at about 11 p.m. on December 31st.
    A nutter still on BST?

Quick Quiz

Question: Are New Year resolutions a waste of time?
Answer: Yep.

Helpful suggestion

If the Daily Mail’s Jenni Murray finds jim-jams too hot in bed, maybe she needs to turn the heating down; or off; to spare the nation from power blackouts.

No way forward

When you look at a photo of a house totally destroyed by a gas explosion, like the one in Worcestershire last Tuesday, you do wonder about the mentality of the nutters who think hydrogen is a viable substitute for natural gas.

The world turned upside down

Crumbs! Another weekend without wall-to-wall Murder, She Wrote, is it? How will we cope? Nope, Jessica has been cancelled only on Saturday of this weekend.

Scrappy New Year!

Do you ever get the urge to bang on a window where there’s a lit Xmas tree on show and yell: “Put those lights out! Don’t you know there’s a fuel crisis?”
    I’m sure it’s something the Bossy Buggers would love a licence to do.
    As long as they got a police escort to ensure they weren’t lynched by indignant taxpayers.