Camping in the UK is the oddest of things; it is a unique time when an ordeal is mixed with pleasure, where fun and joviality is tempered by stinking Portaloos and showers that are no better than a dripping tap. It is also a time when relationships can get strained and even the simple process of frying a piece of bacon is littered with obstacles such as rain, sudden gusts of wind and specifically designed camping frying pans that spot weld any ...
Minister for the treasurer David Gauke has recently said that paying builders in cash for a discount is morally repugnant and that it is illegal tax avoidance? What I find surprising is that this has come out in the news as if it is some sort of dramatic recent discovery; I am no mathematical genius, but within a couple of years of leaving a pretty basic education, I kind of got the feeling that cash deals to avoid paying tax was more than ...
The sunny weather arrived this weekend, just in time for the first Sunday of the season when Oakley didn't have cricket a cricket fixture, meaning my quest to beat my season high score of eleven not out goes on for another week and my chances of a maiden fifty have now become about as remote as an Elvis Presley comeback. It also appears that the much anticipated Azores high that has eventually brought warmer sunnier weather to our shores is only ...
In an attempt to make myself a million quid, I am shortly going to be releasing a series of crap modern day erotic novels................. a 21st Century Mills & Boon if you like.
Here is an extract from my first book, Fifty Shades of Emulsion
Roy had worked for Permolux Coatings since 1984, starting at the bottom of the ladder as a junior warehouse assistant before rising through the ranks in to his current position as senior wareho...
There is increasing information coming from the Met Office that the huge ridge of high pressure that builds from the Azores every summer may, in the next week, be about to extend further north in to southern Britain, pushing away the jet stream and the succession of low pressure systems that have been spinning across us since April.
After the hideous conditions we have experienced so far this summer, if this miracle does occur, it will be ...