This last month has seen an explosion of friends registering on the social networking site Facebook. We have all been having such a laugh exchanging old photos and memories, there is not a lot you can't do on this site, and it is great having contacts with friends in Australia and in different parts of this country, it is a great tool........................if used in the right way!!!Only yesterday my friend was telling me that his supervisors ...
We got a minor taste of Spring this weekend as we headed off to Old harry Rocks in Dorset with my Dad. It is a great place to go to get away from all the doom and gloom of the real world, and despite the country seemingly increasing it's uneducated sub proletarian sheep population by the day, places like the Dorset Coast Path help you see the better side of Britain.Out here you don't have to hear about Jade Goody's cancer battle, some shit ...
Meet Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England who yesterday announced a plan to inject £75bn in to the country by “Quantative Easing”. Whisper it quietly but quantative easing is effectively the printing of money to buy government bonds and company assets to release money in to the banking system to encourage lending to get the economy moving again.Mervyn King had the look of a man, that if he farted he would shit himself whilst ...
Pictured above is Reading Club captain Graeme Murty hugging the Coca Cola Championship in 2006 after Reading FC broke all records with a haul of 106 points and had the league wrapped up by February. The contrast this year is quite staggering with not one team seemingly capable to launch a run of form to send them to Premiership riches. As soon as team looks like putting a run together and making a surge to the top, it gets vertigo and falls away ...
Spare a thought for ex RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin. This poor beleaguered chap has found his position untenable after RBS announced record losses and required another £13bn from the public purse to add to the initial £20bn that propped the company up.Sir Fred (who was deservedly knighted for his services to banking in 2004) appears to have made a minor error of judgement in buying ABM Ambro in 2007 for a cool £49 billion (they must have been ...