And has been for quite some time. Its renewal date passed. Lo Cost Names never sent a reminder. And now I have to pay them £50 to restore it. So my blog reverts to iandsmith.wordpress.com. At some point, my domain name will become available, and I’ll be able to buy it back at a lot [...]
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Try Brian Cox (Wonders of the Universe, BBC TV). He’s the coolest thing on the planet, and he’s a particle physicist which might come in useful when catching those pesky isotopes. In fact particle poppet Bri (40 and some) is a bit of a wonder himself, being the oldest man alive to get away with [...]
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I just watched Eric and Ernie, the brilliant BBC drama about Britain’s favourite comedy duo, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. It covered their early lives and careers and was the second recent BBC drama to surpass the small screen. I also spotted my home town. Stockport Plaza, the Plaza steps and the Apollo in Ardwick [...]
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Now that’s news. Forget all this “big embarrassment”. Politicians aren’t embarrassed by Wikileaks. They lie, they get elected, and then they lie some more. Embarrassment isn’t in their glossary. Power is. So the media is in a spot of bother. All they can talk about is “political embarrassment” because they can’t or won’t editorialise the [...]
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Plenty of things to do, but having discovered Ultimate Handyman forum for instant help, nasty niffs are a thing of the past. “You need a Fernco Adaptor Connector!” Simples. Another great forum is Online Conversions, devoted to converting units. I didn’t think this fascinating subject would be a great draw but even at midnight there [...]
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That’ll be the problem!
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I just discovered that the Incwriter’s blog was being imported to my Facebook profile so it appeared to be by me. It must have seemed as though I was never away. It looks as though I did it deliberately to claim the words for my own but I didn’t. When I unimported Incwriters there was [...]
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The Tories have really unleashed some nasties with the housing benefit cap fiasco. Everyone knows of a family nearby living it up at the expense of the state but that’s life. And housing benefit has doubled. We got good value for that though. Remember the homelessness of the 80s and 90s? My journey into London [...]
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Web Site Developer! That’s what I am today. Although I’m not sure it rates as a “proper job” for the Bufton Tuftons who ring Any Answers asking exactly what a Liaison Officer does etc. “Arf! Arf!” Those people still think there are millions of manly jobs in heavy industry. Sorry, old boy. I’ve got bad [...]
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Queen Mary’s dolls house at Windsor Castle is the most excessive eccentric frivolity that puts our royal family right up there with the former royals of Russia and France: “Let them eat cake!” I went to see it a few years ago. It’s crazy. Famous authors clamoured to write tiny books for the miniature library. The [...]
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