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Parish notice

March 24, 2011
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Some work will be carried on the website in the early hours of Friday morning. The work will be carried out from 3am Friday morning and could extend until 11am. The website should be unaffected during this time, but there might be short periods of time when it is unavailable. The hosting company are moving [...]

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Best comments of the week (BCotW)

February 13, 2011

Caedmon’s Cat in ‘Why do you Blog?’ I blog during the course of my mouse-catching activities. I do so because I’m the only moggy in the area who’s interested enough to do it. Life is getting more stupid here in the lovely Kingdom of Northumbria each passing day. There are so many examples of the [...]

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Saturday posts worth looking at

February 12, 2011

Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising. Bruce Schneier on bomb sniffing mice. John Adams on the need for a Cream Buns Act. How to say nooooooooo! Australia’s expensive housing, the same reason for the UK’s expensive housing – planning. New York Times  – Smokers denied jobs – the new minority? Spiked!  – Facebook makes [...]

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Instead of prisoner votes, care for pensioners

February 10, 2011

Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. Solves two problems in one. Pensioners This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d receive money instead of paying it out. They would have [...]

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Aliens have landed

December 4, 2010

NASA has just announced that they have found some alien life forms. But before you get too excited about little green men, this is actually about little green bacteria. Well maybe not green as they are to small to have any colour. The reason NASA says they’re alien is because they love Arsenic which to [...]

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Management buzzword bingo

November 5, 2010

Management speak – don’t you just hate them? Here are some to get your emotions running wild over the weekend. Going forward Idea showers Product evangelist Platform atheists Incentivise Touch base offline (or is that two?) Loop back Can’t turn a tanker around with a speed boat change Holistic, cradle-to-grave approach Got you in my [...]

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Well His Name Is Not Jim Hamza Is It

November 5, 2010

I put my ‘ illegal’ pipe of tobacco down in disbelief that this bloke has been allowed to keep a British passport this morning. In all of my seventy nine years I can’t believe what is going on. If you are an axe wielding murderer you can get the vote, if you can threaten to [...]

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