Archive | January 2010
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Healthcare Reform
There is something rather strange going on in the USA right now, well, that is, it all looks rather strange to us here in the UK, but then we’ve always thought of ourselves as a more enlightened sibling – we’re the older brother reading hard sums at Oxford whereas the USA is the High School [...]
Video Saturday – Eric Clapton
Like a drizzle of warm treacle over a hot sticky pudding on a freezing cold day. Sublime
So finally, a careers choice then
Suddenly I was 16 years old, and just as suddenly I had taken my O levels and was then ceremoniously thrown out of the school gates and told never to darken her door again, “Off you go and get a job, you bastards”, thus spaketh our Headmaster Cheesy Holland, he had a right way with [...]
The Careers Advisor
It happens to every youth – at some point in their school career someone will ask “so what do you want to be then ?” I’m not so sure that it happens so much these days though, my eldest offspring is studying law at university and she’s not even sure, not even two years into [...]
Hmmm, not sure
Not sure. It started as a section of Hadrians Wall, “Something Crags” or similar, but the wall seemed to get shoved to the background and the crag seemed to get bigger during the painting of it – it happens sometimes – back to the easel I’m afraid. Nice colours though.
The rat
So I’m getting ready to go to a rugby match (why do so many of these stories always start when I’m getting ready to go to a rugby match), its a nice warm Sunday lunchtime, mid summer, very pleasant, all is well. And then Ron pokes his head over the fence. “You got a gerbil [...]
Ron and Mildred
Ron knew exactly what was in my garage, I mean right down to the last nut and bolt, and he knew right where the last nut and bolt was located too – which was far, far more than I ever knew, for I knew nothing of what was in my garage. When we moved into [...]
The two wheeled car
Remember Dennis, the tourettes service engineer of my employment ? Well, this is one of Dennis’s many tales of mishap from his life, really, he should write a blog, it would be hilarious. When Dennis was a young man with tourettes he eventually found himself a young lady who could see through his propensity to [...]
R.F. Holland MA(cantab)
R.F. Holland MA(cantab), think of a thinner version of Arthur Lowes Captain Mainwaring in TV’s “Dads Army”, other than the few extra pounds of weight he was the spitting image of Capt Mainwaring, and a similar cartoon caricature. R.F. Holland MA(cantab), the man who insisted that his initials and qualifications were spelled out on every [...]
