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Woof’s off…
A few more photos from Whitby in the Summer. Hover for a narrative, click for a bigger pic.
In: Business, Well fancy that!
One born every minute…
A Sucker, that is.
On our recent trip to America, we were deceived in various ways three times by enterprising Americans. Each one is worthy of closer analysis.
The first one I’ll call the plausible panhandler. A tall, black lady, smartly dressed, immediately offered to guide us in the right direction less than 10′ from the exit [...]
In: Business, Culture, People · Tagged with: Scams
Giz a job…
Today, the Mobile phone giant O2 came to David’s school to talk about careers. To make it more interesting, the children in Year 5 and Year 6 were encouraged to dress up as the job they thought they might like to do when they grow up. I’m told that there were various trades represented; cooks, [...]
In: Business, Culture, skools n' ospitals
Bye bye to the bowler hats
David no longer has a savings account with the Bradford & Bingley. I’ve mentioned it before but I have a bit of a three strikes and you’re out policy with outfits that rattle my chain.
The first gripe with them was actually David’s: when we first opened the account there was some scheme where if you didn’t [...]
“Fire spreads in minutes… Smoke kills in seconds…”
When I was advised I’d be attending a Fire Marshall course, I immediately thought of Keith Lard, the anally attentive jobsworth fire prevention officer character created by Peter Kay who was featured in “Phoenix Nights” and its predecessor, “That Peter Kay thing”. When it was aired, there was also an apology to a Mr. Keith [...]
