Another off-putting ad

There’s a TV advert for blinds which come with a 3-year guarantee, which doesn’t seem all that much. ‘Do they start dropping to pieces in their 4th year?’ is the sort of question someone like me asks. It certainly explains why the blinds aren’t guaranteed for 5 or even 10 years.

This ain’t inflation

I’ve just been looking at what Vistaprint charge for calendars – 20 quid for the size I’m interested in!!! Or 10 quid with their 50% discount. Which is still a hell of a lot more than the £37 I paid for 5 calendars at the end of 2016.

New Labour’s legacy lives on

It has taken three years for the Henriques Report on the conduct of the police officers who ‘investigated’ the fantasies of Carl Beech to reach the newspapers. No surprise that all of them are the sort of person who flourished under the cosmetic New Labour flag. Tony bloody Blair, and his cronies, still have a hell of a lot to answer for.

Me vs the cat – I never expect to win

What’s worse than the cat walking across the keyboard of your laptop and putting garbage into your document? Me making a barrier with my fingers to keep the cat off the keyboard and finding myself looking at a blue screen with the words “Shutting down” on it when the cat is out of the way because she managed to step on the ‘off’ button.

Advanced lifeforms?

We’ve just had a delivery of what the packaging tells us are “Lancashire Superior White Potatoes”. I’m now waiting to find out if they sneer if the person peeling them doesn’t do a proper job of it.

Remorseless inflation

In his last outing in 1999, Inspector Morse was paying £1 for a pint of beer. If he were to be brought back to life now, the shock of what pubs are charging for a pint now would do him in again in very short order!

Is BT Sport running a hate campaign?

One of my mates is wondering what BT Sport has against the Ottawa Redblacks. There were four sets of CFL highlights shown last week but the Montreal Alouettes' match was shown twice and they ignored the Ottawa Redblacks vs the BC Lions. Again, this week: four CFL highlights episodes, the Alouettes’ match shown twice and the Redblacks vs the Eskimos was ignored. If you want to annoy your customers with a display of perversity, BT Sport is doing a grand job.