The Anonymous Widower

An Ideal Mouth Refresher

My mouth still feels rubish and I try to freshen it up with all sorts of things from curries to whisky.

Last night though when I cooked the chicken pie, I found the ideal drink to refresh my mouth.  As I had some cider left over, I did the good thing and drunk half a bottle of Aspall’s Premier Cru Suffolk Cyder.  It was so good, I’m drinking another bottle tonight!

August 18, 2010 Posted by | Health | , | Leave a comment

Religous Spam

I hate spam with a vengeance, but if it has a fake religous bent, it really gets my goat.  Does anybody know why we use goats in this context?

Look at this loan spam from someone called Margaret Nicholas.

We are Christian Organization formed to help people in need.So if you are in financial difficulty or you need a loan,contact us today via email holytrinityfinancialhome2009@gmail.com  for the bible says””Luke 11:10 Everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened”.So do not let these opportunity pass you by because Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever more.Please these is for serious minded and God fearing People.

 * Refinance
 * Personal Loans (Secure and Unsecured)
 * Business Loans (Secure and Unsecured)
 * Consolidation Loan
 * Combination Loan
 * Individuals Loans
 * Companies Loan

 BORROWER’S INFORMATION

I have treated it with the utter contempt it deserves and applied the Delete key.

The stupid woman, who supposedly sent the e-mail, couldn’t even spell her name the same twice.

August 18, 2010 Posted by | Computing | , , | 3 Comments

Kiss Your Holiday Goodbye!

Yet another holiday firm has gone bust. All of those that have failed this year,  have been at the bottom end of the market.  I know it is hard for those who have lost their holidays, but surely when you book, it is sensible to do this with a company that is unlikely to fail. I’ve rarely used a package holiday company and when I’ve booked in the past, I’ve often put it together myself, by booking the flights and hotel I want.  That approach is usually cheaper and you often get a better room too!

I remember once on Skiathos, we compared prices with others, who’d used a package.  We’d booked direct and flown easyJet and probably paid about 20% less. The only difference was we didn’t get a useless rep. But as the hotel was short of De Luxe rooms, who was it that got the free upgrade to Superior?

On another point, how much do all these failures cost the taxpayer?

August 18, 2010 Posted by | News | , | Leave a comment

Parking and Clamping

This was discussed on Radio 5 Live yesterday morning, after reports that the government were to ban clamping on private land. It is probably right to ban the aggressive aspects of this, but what do you do if say you have a private car park on your offices that is always being blocked by illegal parkers.  They also interviewed the man who refused to get out of his clamped car, so it could be towed away. Most had sympathy with the man, but I don’t, as he shouldn’t have parked where he did in the first place.

When I could drive, I never parked illegally and I think that in over forty years of driving, I’ve only had a handful of tickets. most of which were because I misread a sign or put the wrong amount of money in a meter.

Now that I use buses a lot, I realise how illegal parkers are a complete menace and slow the traffic a lot more. My post about chaos in Trafalgar Square was partly about illegal parking, but mainly about stupid idiots, who were trying to drive where they shouldn’t.

The irony about the BBC phone-in was that the stand-in presenter, Stephen Nolan admits that he gets lots of parking tickets outside the BBC in Belfast, because he claims there is nowhere to park. Surely, he should use the bus.  But then he is almost proud of his very obese state, so I suppose the extra walk would be just too much for him.

I hope the BBC don’t pay his parking tickets.

August 18, 2010 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , | 2 Comments