Monthly Archives: April 2010

As shearing sheep becomes ever more non-viable, farmers have bred a self-shearing strain. I noticed the Mail article as I was filling-in my Self-Assessment form!

Spring is indeed here and, as usual, the springtime chores are, slowly, being undertaken. The outdoor rhubarb beds have been cleared, dug-over and re-created, to make new and bigger areas for cultivation. Our rhubarb crowns, the real McCoy, their fruit … Continue reading →

A year or so ago, it transpired, I happened to OVERPAY my yearly rent by quite a large amount. I sent relevant re-claim forms and was told quite nicely that I’d have to await rent-years-end before a re-payment could be … Continue reading →

At the beeb site they reckon that dad’s staying at home to child-mind have risen in number, in the past ten years, by 900% to about 600,000. The mothers, apparently, can earn more, and indeed many jobs today, it seems, … Continue reading →

Gawd, it’s like going back in time! By 2018, I read, cheques will have been phased-out. Look, I dunno where these people actually TRADE, but for donkeys years ‘The Cheque’ has been totally useless as a means of payment or … Continue reading →

It has ever been a wont of the public-sector to get a few high-flyers of the Private-Sector, to…well, take the remotest interest in the said public-sector. Normally it just doesn’t happen – for the average Private-Sector guru there just isn’t … Continue reading →

In order to make a bed for the Mail-Orderable rhubarb plants other beds are being removed/changed. One of these is a large, circular pile of soil so far inhabited by this: Well, not exactly that one, but several similar. At … Continue reading →

With humoured interest I read in the Mail today of Waitrose’s shortage of rhubarb dilemma! Apparently Delia Smith’s TV’d recipe for some kind of crumble has taken rhubarb eaters and, it seems, Waitrose, by storm! One of the easiest plants … Continue reading →

Usually those literally deluged with large wedges of the folding are classed as ‘lucky’ by the normally-funded hordes. In many cases, of say lottery success, this is obviously true. But even then the ‘luck’ is generally of modest bestowing; a … Continue reading →

As an entrepreneur, and as such a very student of fiscal logic, I read the article; viewed the movie with incredulity. There was though, the time and date to consider, amongst the other propounded ‘data’! Either that or we’re ALL………..