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Job Seekers Allowance – Part 2
A quick update on the situation The system is still fooked. After the plebs in the job centre had told Suzanne that she didn’t qualify for Job Seekers Allowance because she hasn’t contributed to the National Insurance Fund in the last two years, even though she has actually contributed to the National Insurance Fund for [...]
Video Saturday – Steve Earle
No-one else will like this, I’m the only one around who likes this sort of thing, a songwriter who is so good that he doesn’t need a gimmick, doesn’t need to dress like he’s a shop dummy, doesn’t even need a backing band to cover up his mistakes, he’s just singing his song, you either [...]
Illustration Friday – Adapt
“… I’m just saying thats all George, I’m just saying, they’re getting pretty good with these traps now and it always seems to be me who gets to grab the cheese, I’m just saying, maybe we should look at a different diet…”
DoingItForChris
Like the new logo ? Its for the t-shirts for our 147 mile bike ride across the North of England in July to raise funds for Wheatfields Hospice in memory of our close friend Chris who died from a brain tumour back in March full story here. “But what is it ?” I hear you [...]
The Elephants Graveyard
It would be around 1970, in fact I’ll tell you exactly what year it was because The Stones “Brown Sugar” was in the charts and on all the music stations, wait here while I visit Wiki… It was 1971, August 1971, the holiday in the elephants graveyard. Our dad was nothing if not adventurous, for [...]
Die a jello ribbo roun ze oo-oakdree
In 1981 my parents discovered Benidorm. Suzanne and I were actually with them at the time, we spent a week at The Hotel Bristol Park in Benidorms “old town”, we were young, in our twenties, my parents were old, in their sixties, Benidorm is the town of a thousand night clubs and sing-along-bars, a town [...]
It used to be like this…
Now that we don’t have a ha’pennys to scratch our arse with, its fun to look back to times when we didn’t care too much about money, didn’t care because I just went to the bank and got some more if, nay, when my wife and two hungry daughters demanded it, which was at least [...]
Susan Boyle – take 2
OK, lets stoke the flames again This perfomance is what I’d expect from a woman in a pub who’s been shoved up on the kareoke machine against her will … Whilst this is what a professional singer does – campare and contrast Now tell me that Susan Boyle is not 100% hype by a TV [...]
Joined-up thinking at the Job Centre
I’ve worked with Job Centre staff for many years in the past, still do, we sell support services to them and I could fill a whole blog with experiences of wastefulness, unproductive work practices, uncompetitive purchasing methods and downright incompetent-ness, I could but I won’t because of course I have benefited financially from such things [...]
