tenthofjune

We’re moving house shortly, and one of the many things we need to take care of is the phone line.
We are currently with ntl for both telephone and broadband, but the new address, despite being in an ntl area with all surrounding streets having cable service, was never cabled up. That means switching to BT.
Even […]

Having just been presented with a beautiful baby daughter, we have a legal obligation to register her birth within 42 days.
Not being able to do so before the end of the year, due to work commitments, we tried to make an appointment with the local register office for January, only to be told “Sorry, we […]

Heard this story on Radio 4’s PM programme last night, that a fashion designer label, Jimmy Choo, had complained to M&S that they had ripped off their £495 handbag and were selling it for a tenner.
Now excuse me, but if you have the cheek to charge 500 quid for a handbag, you won’t get much […]

Ruby was born today in the early hours.

Here’s a nice little collection of extensions for Firefox 2.

This morning I sat in crawling traffic on the M61 between Junctions 5 and 3 (roughly four miles). Just as I got to junction 3, there are two Variable Message Signs (VMS), proudly stating
“QUEUE CAUTION”
You don’t say!! I wondered what I had been doing for the past four miles. Talk about stating the bleeding obvious.
Far […]

George Bush Snr. gives some friendly advice to his son:
Bush Snr: “Son, you’re making the same mistake in Iraq that I made with your mother.
I didn’t pull out in time…”