Until I saw this story about scientists finding proof of Okapis in the wild in the Democratic Republic of Congo I did not realise they were particularly rare. I think this is because my father is interested in animals and one of my party tricks when I was a precocious child was to identify all […]
Entries from June 13th, 2006
Signalmen
June 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Signalmen · Life
I see that the railway signalmen have voted for strike action on June 20th (when England play Sweden) and June 25th (when England will play if they win their group). How convenient. The timing of the first strike action is devious: they will walk out at 1300. Whenever there is a rail strike you know […]
Tags: Commuting·Railways·Trade Unions
A dodgy political theory
June 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
I am beginning to think that the Tories are not actually at all confident about getting anywhere near to winning a general election, despite what they and the opinion polls are saying. You know how the greens, BNP, Moster Raving Loonies, UKIP and Lib-Dems keep coming up with totally unfeasible ideas because they know they […]
Tags: Tories
