Mr Ratzinger is to step down as Pope at the tender age of 85. It is only the fourth time a pope has retired. The Vatican’s pension plan must be very poor.
But who will replace him in the next few weeks? Needless to say, the bookies have odds worked out already. The front runners are [...]

From Wikipedia,
“It is believed that Julius Caesar first proposed the idea of having January 1 as the first day of the year way back in 46 BC. This is because the month of January has been named after the Roman God Janus. Janus is personified as a two-faced person, one face facing the front and [...]

Greetings! Work is busy, so blogging has been light (pretty non-existent). My new flag website is finally up (though needs a few finishing touches) and awaiting hundreds more products to be added. I don’t think I have ever plugged my businesses here before, but if you want flags for the upcoming events you could do worse [...]

My computer was recently reset to its factory settings and my decent graphics software has disappeared, so I had to use the free Microsoft ‘Paint’ programme, but I’m sure I have made my point!
This picture isn’t about the pros and cons of Scottish independence, but the cons of Alex Salmond as the politically correct, EU-loving [...]

Leg-iron spotted this collection of fifty very strange black and white photographs and came up with a caption for each one. I decided to do the same, but I have used the pictures to illustrate possible/probable ridiculous future EU directives, regulations and propaganda. Quite a few of the captions rely on you having read previous [...]

Two months and two days since I last posted. Sorry about that, but I have been hard at work trying to earn an honest crust. Sometimes, putting food on the table and paying the bills has to come first! I haven’t read much news, which has been a welcome change, so I’m not sure what is [...]

I’ve been in a lot of pain the past couple of days and thought I’d better stock up on more painkillers. It’s nothing terminal.
You know how they package them in boxes of just sixteen pills these days? Well, I picked up three packets of different painkillers in the local Morrison’s supermarket this afternoon, including one [...]

I will be writing about more serious stuff later, of which there seems to be an abundance at the moment, but we all need a laugh, whatever’s going on. One of my favourite things to do on the internet is find out how people have come to this blog. This morning, someone arrived at this [...]

I have sore knees. I took the dogs out for walkies and Muffin stopped to do a poo on the pavement. Like the responsible citizen that I am, I carry plastic poop scoop bags with me. Plus, there are sometimes faeces police in hi-viz jackets skulking around. It is one of the few misdemeanours where [...]

Actually, it’s a belated “happy birthday,” as it was a year ago yesterday that the baby was born which would be known as ConDem. Tory sperm had met LibDem egg and a strange chimera grew: a creature that could simultaneously be conservative and liberal, supposed opposites.
On the face of it, these differences would seem impossible [...]