Recent Comments
Blogroll
Ads by Google
Site Search
Yearly Archives: 2010
Four remain in Grand Prix title fight
A red-bull one-two clinched the constructors’ title for the team, leaving the drivers’ championship to be decided in Abu Dhabi. Vettel took the win with Webber in second place. Alonso’s (slightly lucky IMO) 3rd place leaves him in the best position to win the championship, whereas Hamilton’s determined 4th place gives a slim chance of [...]
Baby buggy black market
Apparently there is an increasing black market in the sale of baby buggies. It sounds like, now that some buggies are retailing for pretty high prices, thieving scroats now believe it’s acceptable to take them from other people. Sigh. The most common thefts are from the home, but cars are also being targeted, so make [...]
Times are a-changing
It’s that time of the year again folk when British Summer Time ends. We mark the end of summer in the traditional way – by turning the clocks back by one hour. I think that the purpose of this is so that it’s lighter in the mornings when folk need that extra push to get [...]
33 Chilean miners rescued
In what is probably the good news story of the year so far, all 33 trapped Chilean miners were rescued yesterday in an operation that took 69 days and culminated in the extraction of rescuer Manuel Gonzalez. You can read a timeline of the rescue here, and see a video of the events here. President [...]
Papal visit shirts fail
A plan to raise cash for last month’s papal visit to the UK by selling specially branded football shirts fell flat on its face. Only around 500 shirts were sold of a stock of 20000. The sellers blamed indifference….
Posted in Life and opinion, News
Tagged with : fail, pope, t-shirts
Comments are closed for this entry.
