I have being doing some telesales this week, cold calling for new business, I have to do this because there is no real sign of a commercial recovery as the public sector that served me so well continues to shrink. Cold calling is an art that only a few select people can perfect with great [...]
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Ditties From Basingstoke, Hampshire and Beyond
Bob Lethaby-Leader of Men
The rain backed off for a couple of days this weekend meaning I could lead the Oakley men’s Sunday XI in to combat for the first time this season against the might of Farleigh Wallop. To be nominated as the captain of a cricket team at the age of 44 is a proud moment, even [...]
Continue Reading →A Letter From the Taxman as the Rich Rob the Poor!
I registered my monthly tax payment to the Inland Revenue a day late last month and got a patronising letter yesterday for my trouble. As Diane Porter, Brian Keane and Karen Langer will recall (or perhaps not) we got stupidly pissed on Diane’s birthday on Wednesday 18th of April and when I tried to do [...]
Continue Reading →Introducing The “Vac Mach Air” Vacuum Cleaner!!
Since living on my own during the last four years or so, I have found that the Holy Grail in my life is the discovery of a vacuum cleaner that actually carries out the task its elaborate brand name gives it. Of course, I know as well as anyone that the simple solution to vacuum [...]
Continue Reading →Cold, Wet & Miserable
For the last few days I have been battling against a tidal wave of depression that is about to engulf me. After weeks of desperately staying stoical whilst searching five day weather forecasts in pursuit of anything resembling a warm dry day, I have now caved in and given up. Two weeks after the start [...]
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