Strangely Perfect

I remember an old  Tommy Cooper gag that went something like this; I went to the doctor and said,  “Doctor, doctor.  It hurts when I do this”  (Cooper raises his knee upwards to demonstrate) The doctor said, “Well don’t do it, then“ The point is that it’s exactly like our prolific consumption of carbon-based fuels, [...]

Well I Never! ..should be the title of this post.  Having lived in the South-West for nearly quarter of a century, it’s come as a complete shock to me to discover that my favourite vacuum cleaner (if there is such a thing, I’m now defining it here!) is little old Henry, and it’s made about [...]

Website blog stats can be very revealing. Someone in Australia recently did a search to find this website and another good return was this book on the Amazon website. If there’s ever one word or subject that attracts the eye is the word SEX.  Attach it to MACHINE and then  make it into a DIY [...]

Introduction Following up an earlier post of mine “Use the Green Stick, Mr Postman!” and how unfriendly competition in the delivery market actually is from the point of view of the environment and the actual service to the customer (us!), the recent news of a  Delivery firm’s 686 jobs at risk should be taken with [...]

Truly this car is the pits. -and here’s how.. The engineers seem to have responded with the most short-term planning possible to a demand from the BMW marketing department to make the company look green now that sales of their monster cars are down 40%.  Some “ad” bloke has said “clean electricity, that’s the way [...]

I just hope that the leaked plans of tax increases for the “better off” aren’t deferred until some future date as the leaked whispers are saying.  The “plan” as it is, is to increase top tax rate to 45% after the next election – or something. All this will do is fuel a massive rush [...]

In an amazing show of unity across the divide that still sometimes splits the two blocs of Northern Ireland, some people have demonstrated just how well two peoples can get on, if they try. As if in an Ealing comedy or an act from Spike Milligan’s Puckoon, they’ve been dodging the revenue men with tonnes [...]

The latest in the long-running sage that the British Government is trying to spell out called: Why We Will Win The “We Are the Best People to Put All Your Information in an ID Card and Lose It” Competition. http://www.itworld.com/security/54342/uk-justice-agency-loses-45000-personal-records goes the story.  In a FOI release the Department of Justice has said it’s lost [...]

or Analysing the Red Herrings of the Fuel & Road Protests Fuel Price Herring The recent fuel protests and road tax protests got me thinking. Everyone in Britain thinks that they are badly off. They think that fuel is REALLY expensive here. Here’s what the AA have to say on fuel prices across Europe (all [...]

Showing how the excuse to shoot down a spy satellite is a cover story for bravado and secrecy. This is proved by reference to the two, very public, Shuttle disasters, comparing at a simple science level the logic behind certain statements.

Guy Negre’s air-powered car could be a life, jobs and environmental saviour.

Well said Amanda Lightfoot at Petrol Prices Blog I subscribe to the petrol prices updates with the idea that why pay more than you have to for petrol. However, the pathetic attempt at a “vote” to pay more tax, yes or no, is just plain rabble rousing and shows that Brendan McLoughlin has mixed motives [...]