Archive for the ‘Snake oil’ Category
Living by numbers
During the summer break, our pre-teen Son David spent a week in London with his Grandma. That gave Karen and myself free run of the house for more than just a weekend and we were determined to make the most of it, doing things we couldn’t readily do with Children.
However, as we don’t go out [...]
In: Snake oil, Techy · Tagged with: Bingo, not quite showbiz
Power to the People
On March 28th, the Greenies were encouraging everyone to switch off their lights for an hour at 8:30pm local time. There was much press headline tokenism like the Piccadilly Circus Coca-Cola sign being switched off, but when it came down to it, I suspect not too many people were bothered.
Tom Paine of Last Ditch put [...]
In: Greenwash, Snake oil, Techy · Tagged with: Greenwash, power
Those luddite watermelons…
It seems that those of a green disposition really hate us, almost as much as they despise themselves. I swore at the radio this morning when some greeny on the Today programme accused E.On of crimes against humanity because of burning coal after 114 people were arrested apparently about to try to shut the Ratcliffe [...]
In: 4FoxAche, Greenwash, Snake oil, troughing · Tagged with: Ecobollocks, watermelons
An unconventional weekend
On Friday afternoon, I drove down to London with david. He spent Saturday with his Grandma, whilst I went to the Liberty Convention. This isn’t a review, just a cursory summary of the day.
Getting up early (for a weekend) I was out of the house by 7am and down to Ealing Broadway for the Central [...]
Flea Circus
When waiting for the Lord Mayor of Blackpool to arrive and tell us about her show girl days, David was watching a rolling screen of vintage adverts & photos at the back of the stage.
One of them was for a Flea Circus and David asked me about them. I suddenly realised that I wasn’t certain [...]
