Summer Draws To A Close
This week we have had a taste of what might been during the kids Summer holidays as the blues skies returned and the sun shone over Hampshire for the first time in several weeks, but the cool misty Autumnal skies over Basingstoke this morning gave a taster for what is to come in the coming months. Quite why we still have the kids holidays in August is beyond me as it is often turbulent and wet, and this year has been worse than we normally ...
Rant
You can't get treated as poorly anywhere as you can as a football fan, particularly if you are unfortunate enough to support Reading Football Club, who make it their mission statement to con their supporters (or should I say customers) with regular monotony. As you may have witnessed a couple of weeks ago on this blog, I went through a customer service nightmare in an attempt to buy a couple of season tickets, it would now appear that it was ...
Corruption Spoils A Nice Weekend
I had numerous things I was going to blog about this weekend, and one of the funnier/shocking moments was seeing a woman doing the washing up in her caravan. Nothing strange about that really, apart from the fact that she was being towed down the A303 at about 65mph! I assume it is illegal, but if not, it is total madness. I witnessed a caravan falling of a car on the M3 a few years ago, it collapsed like a deck of cards liberally spewing its ...
A History Of Smoking Fags
I am approaching my fourth week without a cigarette, I feel better, though my biggest battle in the weeks ahead will be with self righteousness rather that nicotine. I have stopped smoking before, sometimes for a day, or a week, and once for 6 years, before I stupidly smoked a Cafe Creme cigar on a boys weekend in Bulgaria which kicked off the whole downward spiral once again.I firmly believe that smoking is a battle of will power over creature ...
Cornered By Salesmen
Jesus, I had a right old escape today as I was hounded to near submission by a couple of really aggressive salesmen at a car dealership. To try to cut a long story short, my car is an ageing Mercerdes, it has been a fine car to me, but it is now seven years old with 140k on the clock, and every service or repair just gets more expensive. It has crossed my mind to downsize to something like a Golf, I don't need a big car anymore as dealings with ...