Yet Another Quaint Rural Custom

I had my first sight of the Croftend Lake this year. When I bought the Mansion, the estate agent did mention that an adjacent piece of land floods “every year” but assured me that my land is too high up ever to be under water. Croftend didn’t flood last year, but it has flooded rather well this year and the locals are celebrating by paddling about on it using bright-orange inflatable boats.

More Weather Fantasies

Yesterday, one of the staff came across a copy of the Daily Disaster from the last week in November. The paper was promising that we would have “the coldest winter for 100 years”. December, of course, has been mainly mild and wet, so it would be interesting if some weather expert to tell us how cold it will have to get in January and February of 2013 to make the prediction come true.

Life, but not as we know it, Jim

Despite being in deep trouble over the police Plebgate fit-up, and deeply unpopular with his staff, the boss of the Metropolitan Police, Hulk Hogan Hypen Howe, has been awarded a knighthood for his services to policing. Not because he deserves it but because it’s in his job description. Ain’t life wonderful!

Unexpected red stuff!

I’ve just had a very strange experience. I started typing, I realized that there was something soggy on one of my fingers and I saw red stuff on the “s”, “w” and “ctrl” keys. Then I spotted a small, front-to-back slit in the top of the third finger of my left hand. The puzzling thing is how I managed to cut myself between switching the computer on, letting it boot up and starting to type something given that there’s nothing with an obviously sharp edge anywhere in sight. It’s the sort of thing which would give my health & safety inspector nightmares – if I had one.

Customer unfriendly

Don’t you just hate firms which leave their phone system switched on as normal when the staff have skived off? One of my staff tried to ring an outfit called Bathing Solutions last Saturday. He got to the Service Dept. via a menu system and sat listening to a recorded message telling him his call would be answered as soon as possible until he realized that there was no bugger there.
     Same on Monday, Xmas Eve, no one there but Bathing Solutions didn’t have the courtesy to arrange a recorded message saying they weren’t there and informing customers with a breakdown when they might get a chance to talk to someone about getting it fixed.

Believe it or what!

Seen in the TV guide for yesterday: Bizarre ER: Featuring a man who accidentally barbeque’d his own buttocks!!! I think the “Really” channel deserves a question mark after its name!

So much for a non-political police force

The more you hear about the Plebgate (Plebs at the Gate?) affair, the more convinced you become that a gang of coppers fitted up the Tory chief whip with false statements and the top civil servant charged with an “investigation” didn’t, or couldn’t, do a proper job.
    I wouldn’t mind so much if it was equal opportunities fitting up by a police “service” brimming with diversity after 13 years’ training under new labour, but I can’t imagine these solid trade unionists doing it to a Labour chief whip.
    p.s. The boss of the Met., Mr. Hyphen-Howe, who didn’t cover himself with glory either, is up for a knighthood. Unless it can be deleted quickly.