We’re not normal – official!
From the Mail today:
The American ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health’ (DSM) which apparently is a worldwide ‘bible’ for those that treat mental health problems, has had a major re-write.
Because of this the parameters for ‘mental illness’ have been so greatly widened that the suggestion is that no one can be considered ‘normal’!
In my [...]
Artistic Licence?
There is mention today, in some of the press, about charging folk that watch bbc programmes, on pc’s, the normal bbc licence fee. At present, apparently, such reception is excempt.
I am eager to watch dear old auntie sending billions of tv licence reminders – worldwide! (And to read some of the replies from abroad!) And [...]
Trends???
To ‘keep up with them’ I take heed of the young. One such said, “…a chapter of a novel, placed at a website every week or month perhaps, may attract a few regular readers (visitors/traffic!)”.
So the ancient fictional archives of ‘Elizabeth Morris’ were delved, edited and updated and, as no earthly publisher anywhere wants the [...]
Yikes!
Mmm…oh for a bike with a wicker basket! Even the Mail has a fashion article about them today. But it’s all just a fad – soon there’ll be a glut of Dutch-style ladies bikes, with wicker-baskets, hung or stood, gathering cobwebs in garages everywhere.
But we can get new models of this style of bike. No, [...]
For Sale
FOR SALE
Smallish computer desk. Clean and un-marked with sliding keyboard shelf.
Buy Now for £7.00 or I’ll E-Bay it on Saturday 17th July 2010 with an auction start price of £4.00.
I can deliver this item LOCALLY for £30.00 or, buyer collects.
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Keep-fit Ministepper in A1 condition. £4.00! If [...]
Bicycle Repairs.
For Bicycle Repair enquiries please click the page-link above. We are busy (yes!) at the moment and, we are attempting to move house within the next few weeks.
For bicycle spare parts please visit our spares site – bicycleinnertubes – there is a link in centre column on this page.
Neither of these services is a [...]
Work from home?
For about two years my home has been up for sale with an estate-agent in the normal way. We have had a handfull of viewers but most simply did not have about £20,000.00p, in cash, as a deposit for a mortgage.
I expect that all of the viewers worked locally i.e. in the north of England.
So [...]
Pensioned off!
They’re at it again – only this time it’s far more subtle. Rather than just changing the taxation goal-posts on pension-funds, now the penny-pinching moves to the yearly increase – made to keep pace with inflation.
Up to now this increase has been in line with the Retail Price Index which is, currently, just over 5%.
In [...]
Money sinks?
There are umpteen ‘money sinks’ but a couple do feature in todays news. One is (as ever) the sheer cost of the eu. This year we’ll put into this money-sink par excellence £6,400,000,000.00p more than we get out of it.
Wot’s the point I have to ask meself?
**We’ve been ‘fined’ £150,000,000.00p by the third-raters at Brussels [...]
Life without brains?
Many years ago, in the mid nineteen-sixties, I started work. It was then that I first heard the term, ‘The Brain Drain’ and, indeed, within a year or so my then boss did indeed shut his factory and either gave-up trying or cleared-off abroad. I was out of work – but it wasn’t then so [...]
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