According to a report in today’s Independent, the average cost of bidding farewell to one’s dear departed, is now £7,018 taking into account legal costs, funeral expenses and flowers etc. This is a rise of 42 percent over the last five years. The funeral industry says the cost of new environmental procedures has been largely […]
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Falling In Love – With A Perfect Beauty!
Last Thursday, I fell in love. It was not with an attractive female and certainly not with a man – although I am not saying there is anything wrong with that (tokenistic PC gesture over!) It was not even with a racy looking car or any of the thousand things I constantly desire from the […]
What A Clever Advert – A message For All
I thought I would give us all a day off and share what I think is the very best of clever advertising. How could anyone fail to fall in love with Evian after this?
Paramedic Struck Off After Oral Sex!
A much needed paramedic who was caught during the act of being given oral sex in the car park of a hospital, was today struck off the register. The chair of the disciplinary panel hearing his case said the act would: “offend the morals of any right-thinking member of the public” Had the 53 year […]
Poor Wee Scotland …. It’s truly Offal!!
Just when we English were thinking things were ‘at peace’ with our neighbours north of the border it seems we might be about to upset them again. After years of controversy over the ‘plundering’ of North Sea Oil and decades of arguing over self rule for the wet, windy, mountainous and I might add very […]
Planet Earth to Collide with either Mars or Venus!
We’re all doomed! Computer simulations have predicted that our planet Earth might collide with either Mars or Venus– but not for at least another billion years! By that time, we will probably already have destroyed ourselves by one of a multitude of perils like Swine Flu, nuclear stupidity, global warming, another crap government or boredom […]
The Home Secretary’s Final Comedy Routine?
As any good comedian knows, it is all in the timing. So what better proof could we have all been shown, than that supplied by the woman who has given us many laughs over the past few weeks, Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith. On the same day she has announced the introduction of the controversial identity […]
Caught Off Camera – You’re Nicked!
The boss of one of the main companies responsible for supplying speed cameras to the authorities has been fined £300 and banned from driving for six months for ……speeding!! Tom Riall, is head of the Serco company which has provided around five thousand cameras across the UK. He was caught by a police patrol while […]
Twitter – Long May It Last!
No-one can doubt that Twitter has been an unqualified success story. It came from no-where to being one of the most mentioned – and used – websites on the internet. Celebrities are not considered A-Listers unless they are known to be posting their (often vacant) thoughts, using less than 140 characters. Their popularity is judged […]
The Difference At McDonalds!
According to research by the German based, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, male chimpanzees who share the meat they have hunted with a female chimp are able to copulate with their mate twice as much as those that do not share at all. Apparently, meat is an important part of a chimp’s diet and […]