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This is something I have never really thought about, but it has cropped up twice in my life this week. The first time was when a friend and I were discussing it. We settled on the idea that it was the banks that enforced it through pressure on the government to ease workload for them. […]
Very hard. My weight tracker graph shows the spike that Easter has caused. Still… Happy Easter.
After what seemed like an age – 17 days in fact – I returned to work. Not for long though, the next holiday isn’t far over the horizon. I generally don’t feel like that normally. Today was one of the better days recently at work, the most I’ve enjoyed teaching for a while if I’m […]
I could have got away with saying my Chinese Grand Prix Qualifying report was today’s blog. But it isn’t really. So I can’t. One small piece of F1 news from that: Mark Webber, who initially qualified 14th, will start at the back of the grid after the amount of fuel n his car wasn’t enough to a) get him […]
After yesterday’s fairly busy day, most of my time was spent faffing on some kind of electronic device or other. Since I’ve been helping Mrs Pitts re-establish her iTunes library – in preparation for her birthday present – I’ve become increasingly jealous of the fact that she has been sorting out all the artwork for […]
Work. That was most of today. The evening involved a quick trip to Birstall to get a few things for our classes and people we work with for Easter as well as a couple of things for Kit. Since nothing interesting happened, and I’m not exactly awake at the moment, I’m going to post some funny headlines. […]
Today I came home, via the garage after having a headlight bulb replaced, to find that the road outside our house has been dug up for the third time in an attempt to locate a gas leak. Now, my nose isn’t the best and I can’t really smell gas so I haven’t noticed a problem. […]
When you think of Easter, or Spring, you think of a nice green valley, full of rabbits and frolicking lambs bleating their little heads off. Maybe a small goat chewing the grass in a field. Maybe you just think of chocolate and getting a tiny bit fatter. But snow? This was the scene from my […]
Every so often I write an entry here about how I’ll post more often. Or how I’m sorry I haven’t been posting more often. And to be honest, my time gets squeezed so much when I’m working that I just don’t have chance to write for here or any of my sites. So… it’s the […]
Due to a huge lack of motivation to do any actual work lately, I’ve spent a huge amount of time trawling the web and have found quite a few interesting places to show you. I didn’t really think they deserved a place in the links section but let me know what you think! Some of […]