May 2009 Archives

Funny how you start a thread and before you know it all sorts of associated stories start arriving.
This week's specialist subject - kids in cars

Now, you are probably going to think in a line or two, what's he telling me this for? Good Lord, I have a sad little life of my own, I don't need a slice of his, too.
No matter; this morning I popped out into the lane to get the cat in.

Hopefully by now you will have got over the upset of Team GB being beaten into a Eurovison UEFA spot by a Norwigin cod breeder on a fiddle.
If ever there was clear evidence that Britain is the least xenophobic country in the world it is this festival of warbling and plinky-plonk.

The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the way our masters treat us is that they think we are stupid.

We are, for instance, expected to believe that people who drive Range Rovers have broken the skyosphere and, as if we care, that Harriet Harpoon had no intention of stabbing her boss in the back, that the story was made up by Her Majesty's Daily

If you have been holding onto your cash hoping for a two-for-one bottom of the market used car deal, look sharp.
The green shoots of recovery may well still be microscopic but there are signs that, perversely, this will mean higher used car values by the end of the summer.

Some years ago on the glorious Bay of Naples, a Kojak lookalike guide took a shine to me.
Actually I think he took a shine to my wife. My role was to dangle grapes, top up the wine and generally go ohooo missus! at relevant parts in the script.

Right, if you are not speeding, eating with your engine running or picking your hooter in the mirror you have nothing to fear.
That's the standard answer to camera law enforcement, CCTV and You've Been framed. Can't really argue if you are bang to rights, can you? Sorry chummy we have you on camera displaying unnatural intentions towards a ferret.