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Warlords

A couple of years back I was in TK Maxx (US readers - the same as TJ Maxx) and spied something for a few quid that I had to have.
It was a pair or Atari-style paddle controllers that contained numerous Atari games including Warlords. Computer and video games are frequently dismissed as frivolous by [...]

Leader’s Wives

Wham Bam! Sam Cam to be Mam.
Screams the front-page of today’s Sun. Now there are a number of ways to look at that. The first is… well it’s nice for the Camerons. The second is I frankly don’t care and “married woman getting pregnant” is not exactly a news story. I mean it’s a bit [...]

An Icy Fear of Lawyers

It was a cold and frosty night. There was a cold wind blowing from the East, and the forecast was for heavy snow. The streetlights gleamed on the inch of solid ice that covered every surface. Cautiously, I made my way up the steep hill, stepping gingerly from foothold to foothold, plotting my path ahead [...]

Kirstie Allsopp

I watched Ms Allsopp awe-struck on C4 last night. I have never in my entire puff seen anyone so up themselves. It was Kirstie’s “Homemade Christmas”. God almighty it was enough to convert me to Judaism. She is just so utterly disgustingly upper-middle-class and Guardian reading. I’m not playing lower-middle-class oik here or planning on [...]

Beyond Belief

Got the Parish Council Newsletter through the door…
On 6th November 60 young people had fun in a safe environment at the Ball Court in x as a mobile climbing wall, a non-alcoholic bar and a barbecue arrived to promote safe and active socialising. x is a member of the y Local Area Partnership (LAP) and [...]

Toilet Humour

Well, the power was off this afternoon because United Utilities were pissing about with the line. Again.
And without telling us. Again.
Well, I reached for the TV remote only to be dissapointed - I always do that. You easily forget how much we take the ‘tricity for granted, don’t we? Memo to Greenie Windy Millers: [...]

Oh, how true

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Maintaining the corporate networks is no different.