Boom Boom

Out go the lights.
We’ve just had a power cut!
Very unusual occurrence here.
In our street it was just a quick off then on. I don’t think it lasted even a full second.
In the next street, however, the lights stayed off for a good half hour.

Sounds of Christmas

The town’s brass band has just been down our street playing Christmas carols and tunes.
I don’t know how long it will be before some arsehole decides that they need a ‘risk assessment’ to do it or that they’re breaking some sort of law against playing music that isn’t ‘interfaith based’.
But, until then, I shall continue [...]

Missing: $15 billion…

So, the latest financial scandal to hit the fan is the alleged embezzlement of $50 billion by Bernard Madoff.
Apparently, according to the BBC News site story:
Somehow, in bad times as well as good, he was able to pay out 10% or more every year. “It’s a proprietary strategy. I can’t go into it in great [...]

Winter Vomiting Bug? It’s the Daily Mail that makes me sick!

Such a shame…the Daily Mail was doing so well today with its accurate reporting of the latest house price falls story – see my posts on this a little further down the page.
But then this:
Hospital wards closed as outbreaks of flu and deadly winter vomiting bug sweep Britain
The story goes on to say:
Last year more [...]

A rant at Anthea

I’ve never forgiven Anthea Turner for it.
With one slip of the tongue she became vehemently hated.
(I have to admit to not liking her very much before the unfortunate incident in question – she always seemed patronising, full of fake bonhomie and cloying girliness with more teeth and floppier hair than any human being has a [...]

House price win

Further to my last post, the Mail actually did a better job of reporting the latest story that house prices would fall further next year than the BBC on their news site:
House prices to fall a further 15% by end of next year, warns Barclays boss
Which is a far more accurate representation of what was [...]

House price fail

Jeezus…the BBC news site is becoming almost as bad as the Daily Mail when it comes to alarmist house price headlines.

UK house prices ‘to fall by 30%’

That sounds pretty horrendous but when you read the story below it’s not quite as bad as they’d have you believe.
John Varley, group chief executive of Barclays, painted a [...]