An Odd Problem With Zopa
Because a lot of people repay their Zopa loans on the first of the month, when the first is at a weekend, these payments get delayed by the banking system by a couple days and I worry that something has gone seriously wrong, as money hasn’t arrived. I just checked and tomorrow is a very big payday – We need to have 28-day months to sort this problem out.
Or I could stop being paranoid.
The Man With The Artificial Heart
This is definitely the good news story of today.
From what I can gather, the recipient is now able live a much more normal life until he can get a heart transplant.
My late wife, C, died of a squamous cell carnimona of the heart. It just grew in her heart and strangled the life out of her. She just lived only a few months after the diagnosis.
I got the impression at the time, that if she had been younger then they might have tried a transplant. But I also know that if it had been offered she would have said no!
But after today’s news, if I was in the same state and they offered me an artificial heart for a few month’s life, I think I’d take it. In fact, I sometimes think that if by having the operation I had a high chance of not making it, but would help to advance knowledge, I’d take that risk. It might be better to die under the knife, than suffer a long-lingering death.
Not that this mongrel is thinking of going yet! There are too many windmills at which to tilt!
Do The Swedes Know Their Left From Their Right?
Why is it that if IKEA are going to drop somebody in it, then it’s me?
This morning the decorator came and painted the cupboard in my spare double bedroom. A month or two ago, I bought a set of Stolmen interior wardrobe fittings from IKEA. So this evening, I decided to put the two drawer cabinet together. As I always do, I cbecked that everything was there and the first part went together very well.
A Half Completed IKEA Stolmen Chest
In the picture you can see the frame of the chest and the two drawer fronts, ready to accept the sides and back.
But then I noticed the deliberate mistake that I’d missed when I checked the contents.
Four Identical Drawer Sides
The four drawer sides were all for the left, instead of two being left and two being right.
I have informed IKEA, but I might have a problem, as I’m probably outside of their return time, as I ordered this furniture in February. But surely one of the reasons you buy flat-pack furniture is that it is easier to store until you need it. I’ve also thrown all of the packaging away.
Is This The Real North-South Divide?
Sathnam Sanghera is one of my favourite columnists. He wrote a piece called, Not on the right track to get the UK moving, saying that it was training that the West Midlands needed and not trains.
In some ways I agree with him, but we actually need both. This bit from his piece stood out.
Nothing, not even the fact that some London bars charge £18 for a cocktail, shocks my fellow Midlanders more than the fact that I have never owned a car. Most families in my parents’ suburb seem to have two or three vehicles per household. Getting them to use a train instead is going to be more difficult than weaning them off pork scratchings.
I’ve come across this attitude before. I have even been accused of being a loser because I travel everywhere by public transport, by an idiot from Middlesborough.
I’m afraid that some parts of the rest of the country are going to have to do a lot of readjustment, when the oil runs out.
Keith Madeley MBE
I have received spam from someone claiming to be this guy and a company called HoneyPot mail. As my reputable spam filter marked his message as junk mail, I binned it. I suggest you do the same.
He might be a genuine person or he could just be a very bad e-mail marketeer. After all, I couldn’t find an unsubscribe on the e-mail, which is against the ICO rules.
Balotelli Gets It Right
Mario Balotelli has reportedly said that he doesn’t like Manchester.
I don’t!
He obviously has more taste than the average footballer.
The Anonymous Widower 