I haven’t had much time for blogging this week because I have been reviewing books. Yes chaps I am a book reviewer – well – I’ve reviewed one or two probably not very well and not very accurately because I did drop one of them in the bath and the pages stuck together but there [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Book Report
Posted in book reviews, books, Gordon Ramsay, Great Wall of China, Jamie Oliver on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pottermania
Posted in bond, clive custler, ian fleming, J.K.Rowling, magic, muggles, potter on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Now I know what [crap] writers block is. For a week I’ve been trying to think of something moderately interesting, faintly controversial, vaguely sarcastic, slightly funny, deeply profound in the shallowest sense – or whatever – anything – to blog about and coming up blank. What must it be like for real writers like J.K.Rowling, [...]
Private Lives
Posted in community, dinosaurs, privacy on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do you ever get the feeling that someone’s watching you? You’re probably right. No it’s not just the nosy neighbours who want to know why you feel the need to go to the store seventeen times per day, it’s the Traffic Cam and the Bank Machine Cam, and the Toll Road Cam [easy to fool [...]
Sicko
Posted in HMO, NHS, OHIP, sicko, United States health care on July 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last night we went to see ‘Sicko’ [http://www.michaelmoore.com/], the latest offering from famed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. This is the first time, certainly in our family’s memory, that we have ever paid good money to go and see a documentary for heavens sake in a mainstream theatre – which is witness to the growing fame [...]
Ghost Stories
Posted in ghosts, psychic phenomena, seeing things on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever seen a ghost? I have – several in fact and not only when I’ve had one too many vodka spritzers. We live in an old Victorian house and although there are no bumps in the night and physical apparitions going on here – well, there may be but I rely on the [...]
Independence Day
Posted in boston massacre, custer, declaration of independence, independence day, july 4th on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today is July 4th, celebrated by Americans around the globe [or ‘Merkins’ as we prefer to call them] – getting all in a lather about the final ratification of the Declaration of Independence. You know the one – the document that gave all Americans – or so they believe – the right to bear arms [...]
