I was imagining the other day what it would be like to
work in customs when the law about checking passports changed. When I used to
go to France a fair bit, you just had to hold your passports up, barely braking
as you did so. If there was a queue building, they hardly bothered even looking.
Stamping Passports
Now they must mess about stamping the passports one by
one. If a family of five are going on holiday, what a ball ache that must ...
So, Liz Truss is ‘ready to lead, trusted to deliver’. By
whom exactly?
By the Lib Dems she was president of at university? By the
Remain voters she campaigned vigorously on behalf of in 2016? Or the swivel
eyed ERG freaks who have done so much damage to the UK.
Trusting Truss
Why would anyone in their right mind trust Liz Truss to
deliver? There’s a simple answer to that. It’s the swivel eyed lunatics in the
Tory membership. ...
Over the last few days of record-breaking temperatures, much has been mentioned (mainly by older folks who think they’re hard) about the famed summer of 1976. I was eight at the time and the only thing I really remember is my mother doing some bizarre pagan like dance when it rained. Oh, and the smell of the rain on dry surfaces. Even when I smell that now, it takes me back to that summer.
False Comparisons
Comparing the summer of 1976 ...
I have always wondered why certain people use severe weather
warnings to look hard.
In the winter it is, “Yes, it’s going to snow…guess what,
it’s winter”. In the summer it is “Wow it’s going to be hot…it’s called
summer, get over it”. If there is a
storm warning that might disrupt travel or bring down power lines, it’s, “In
my day it was known as a windy day, end of”.
Why on earth would someone want to get ...
I have one client left who still insists on posted invoices.
Everyone else just deals in emailed PDF’s these days, making life easier for
all. Therefore, every week, I have to print of the invoices and timesheets, put
them in an envelope and find a stamp.
Letterbox Euphoria
I have kind of mastered that part, it’s getting the invoice
from my house to the letterbox which is the hard bit to execute. This became
even harder when my ...
