Month: April 2018

Instant communication – good or bad?

One of the positives of modern technology is that we can have a word with someone without having to physically go and see them. In the time of Samuel Pepys in the 17th century, there were no such things as telephones and people used to meet in coffee houses to exchange gossip. Now, we have more information  and channels of communication than we can possibly handle and it behoves us to be...

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Quoting the right price for a job

Being a sole trader, I can charge as much or as little as I feel like with a  gardening job. Today I was asked to quote for a job which was very rightly in the "jungles cleared" descriptor in my advertising. This, believe it or not, is a garden. A very nice but eccentric lady wants me to clear it all so she can walk around if she feels like it. She also claims that her neighbours are infringing...

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The day the GPS got it wrong

My faithful TomTom GPS has seldom let me down traveling in Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, parts of Europe, Ireland but in this fairly remote corner of Somerset it met its match. But more of that later. Today we decided on a real break from the exigencies of everyday life and decided to go to one of the largest car boot sales in the UK, the Cheddar car boot . I have written about it before...

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Brexit hangs over us

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I consider the further ramifications of the Windrush refugees from the Caribbean who have settled in this country for 40 years and now find they cannot return, or they cannot work in the hospitals where they worked or even be treated by the NHS. I wonder what mess the Home Office will make when they suddenly have to process the 3 million people from the...

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Private and public thoughts and fake news

This is one of the few intellectuals on the planet that I rely on. The powers that be don't dare to take him out although he challenges them on every single point. I would take a guess that the picture of him is about 20 years old. I would urge every single one of you to look at anything that he has written because we don't know how long Youtube will keep him on. The same applies to the...

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Chemtrails and a day out

So this is what the wonderful authorities are doing. I went out very early this morning, about 6:30 AM, and saw a plane spraying chemicals. You can tell chem trails apart from vapour trails because the chem trail stay in the sky for a long time. They consist of barium, aluminium, strontium, and other chemicals designed for various nefarious purposes. You may ask, how did I know that it was not a...

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