The ‘last post’

My last post for a while – Christmas Eve is already here to kick off a few days of celebration and then, on Saturday, Lady Shark’s Meniere’s permitting, off for a week in Normandy to see the New Year in.
Also the ‘last post’, as it were, for Woolworths, Whittards (almost, anyway) and now Zavvi.
Who’s next?
Not [...]

Die, puppy, die…

I suspect, like many people reading this, that I’m still alive because perhaps on at least one occasion during my life I was saved by some sort of drug.
I think I may also be correct in thinking that the older you are, the more likely it is that that particular drug was tested on an [...]

More bad taste from the Mail

In the normal run of things most parents die before their children – which is sad enough but as it should be – but it must be truly heartbreaking when the reverse happens.
It’s just wrong and against the natural order of things.
When children do die, it invokes feelings of sadness, sympathy and pity in those [...]

More papal bull

Isn’t life strange?
No sooner do I have a little dig at ‘The Priests’ than their boss comes out with this, although I’m guessing that my blog entry about The Priests isn’t the reason Pope Benny has spewed out the usual bigoted, blinkered shite this time.
Yes, that lovable ex-Hitler Youth member (an unenthusiastic participant apparently, although [...]

The Priests!

I went looking for a CD for Mrs Shark today as an extra little stocking filler.
I looked through the racks in HMV and saw this album:

Hmmm…I thought…that’s a new band on me – never heard of them before…
Anyway, I flipped the CD over and it turned out that The Priests is a ‘band’ of priests [...]

My turd Clarkson/Hislop entry

Fuck.
Me.
I’m stunned…
I thought the Mail had gone completely over the top with regard to the Clarkson/Hislop pen throwing incident.
It never occurred to me that there was another newspaper which could make the incident sound worse.
And no other sleazy redtop with so little journalistic integrity could be found on the shelves of the newsagents of this [...]

Another crock…

I’ve just read this story on the BBC News site:

‘X Factor vote’ for street names
Residents should be allowed to name their streets and parks after their heroes, a think-tank has suggested.
The New Local Government Network says councils should hold X Factor-style contests to find public place names.
The report suggests football hero David Beckham, born [...]

Something fishy

I found this the other day.

It’s a variation on one of those Christian fish signs – known as an Icthus – that you sometimes see on cars and denotes a belief in creationism and a denial of Darwinism.
I was re-reading the excellent Dave Gorman book  ‘A Googlewhack Adventure’ and after I’d finished the bit where [...]

I’m confused

Lots of comforting noises started to come out of No 10 when everyone realised that the credit crunch was actually a full-blown global catastrophe of the first magnitude and that the government could no longer pretend it was all going to go away.
There’s been talk of real help with mortgages, jobs, retraining, loans, etc.
But what’s [...]

Good…

…grief…
I didn’t realise she had another £5 million gaff…
Credit crunch ‘victim’?