As ever, the ‘As if…’ website has the best perspective on Clegg’s time in charge of the country. Supply leader Nick Clegg fails to keep control as entire nation starts humming In a series of ‘Town Hall meetings’ Mr Clegg travelled the country pleading with people to ‘settle down’, ‘be quiet’, and to ‘get on […]
Entries from August 16th, 2010
It’s your own time that you’re wasting
August 16th, 2010 · Comments Off on It’s your own time that you’re wasting · Politics
On the move?
August 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
With any luck we will be moving soon.  We went to look at a place the other day and had decided even before we arrived that we would have it unless it turned out to be absolutely unsuitable. We spent about half an hour there and decided that it would do. When I bought my […]
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BNP strife
August 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on BNP strife · Politics
According to yesterday’s Guardian (hat tip to Jams) the BNP are heading for a bit of a meltdown. What is confusing me a bit is how smebody who is a party’s only member on an elected body can resign the party whip and stay in the party.  Surely if you are the only member yo […]
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Perseids
August 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Perseids · Life
With all the light pollution here, the air traffic movements from Gatwick, and some clouds and rain in the evening I didn’t hold out much hope of seeing any of the perseid meteor storm tonight, but I was pleasantly surprised. The rain stopped, the clouds cleared and even with the light coming from windows and […]
Don’t it make you Feelgood
August 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on Don’t it make you Feelgood · Life, Music
This week’s Word podcast features the legend that is Wilko Johnson reminiscing, philosophising and playing a bit of guitar. At one point he talks about the dynamics of the relationships within Doctor Feelgood and whether there was any competition between him and Lee Brilleaux about who was the frontman and says: If we were a […]
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The solution to gun crime?
August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
This is supposed to be art – a sculpture that can turn into a gun, which would appear to owe a lot of inspiration to a certain James Bond film – but it could be the answer to gun crime. Just tweak the US constitution so that the right to bear arms means you can […]
The toilet of light
August 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on The toilet of light · Life
Very wrong, but I couldn’t help laughing at the moment of the flush. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
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Newport state of mind
August 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Music
Obviously this is old news to the nearly 2.5million people who have seen it before me but I am really enjoying this very Welsh version of Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I bet Jay-Z wishes he could write lines like “if you come […]
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A new toy
August 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
With all the shelf-removal I have been doing lately it was a bad time to discover that my little electric screwdriver was totally kaput. Sure, the big one is fine for taking the big screws out of the wall, but a bit awkward when tackling the screws holding shelves onto the supports, especially on shelves […]
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At last: a chance to agree with the Lib Dems
August 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
Since the elction in May, or rather since the formation of the coalition I have been increasingly disenchanted with the Liberal Democrats, though many of my colleagues in the Labour party will say I was foolish to be giving them the benefit of the doubt in the first place.
