The home of political correctness
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2010
So Mrs Old Fart went duck herding this morning and a fine job she made of it - through the tunnel, through the gate, up the ramp, through the pond and back into the pen. Assisted of course by a sheep dog.
This is the latest thing in corporate entertainment and was laid on for a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2010
Mrs Old Fart very kindly for my birthday bought us tickets to go and see Kris Kristoffersen last night. It was great to hear him again and a very enjoyable evening - even if we did have to drive all the way to London.
It is now almost exactly 40 years since I first heard Kris in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2010
Starting to get really optimistic about the Dave & Nick show. Latest is the Government is going to stop centrally funding speed cameras and this means that local authorities will dismantle them - starting with Oxfordshire within the next week or two.
Needless to say the road safety lobby is up in arms but there is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2010
Some press reports suggest Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is planning to introduce legislation to reverse Labour’s disastrous 24 hour drinking law. Not only that, she is going to ban supermarkets selling alcohol below cost price. And if pubs want to open late they will now have to contribute to policing costs ( a quarter [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2010
My friends are constantly sending me emails that circulate widely which clearly demonstrate that politicians and the chattering classes in this country are totally out of touch with how ordinary people feel on a range of issues.
The two latest to hit me are one on illegal immigrants and what an easy target this country is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2010
Difficult to know what to choose from the Sunday Times today to get steamed up about or laugh at:
There is the story of muslim bus drivers and/or their muslim passengers ejecting blind people and their guide dogs from buses - and taxis - because they think dogs are unclean (excuse me but whose country is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2010
One in five lie when they take a day off saying they are ill when they aren’t. So says a survey reported on BBC this morning. Instead of the work ethic we now have a sickie culture. Worse still BBC breakfast were hardly condemning the practice.
Even worse is that these people who should be working [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2010
The WI have gone so its safe to come out now - Henry the cat was terrified by a room full of women. In fact all our guests have now gone and we really have collapsed in an exhausted heap.
So now some local councillors have decided to award themselves pay rises way above inflation at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2010
Family party was great on Sunday but we are exhausted. Too much to do. And today we have a coachload of WI women for tea from Mrs Old Fart’s former lodge. Think I will pretend to be the gardener.
Don’t knnow if you have been following the story of the youngsters encouraged by their parents to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2010
Off to London today so guess it will be hot. Need to do a spot of ‘light repping’ as one of my so called friends calls it. Then the first of the family starts arriving for our family get together at the weekend. So should be good fun.
Interesting to see what all the current exercise [...]