Big Aesthetic Decision...

I have a very big decision to take. I need to decide whether it is wise and/or appropriate to have PV solar panels installed on the roof of my house.

Loony Left v Swivel-Eyed Loons v Fib Dems

British politics is in a bad way.

On the one hand, we've got the Loony Left, a long-established band of no-hopers who think that your hard earned cash should be used to subsidise everybody who can't be bothered to work and every minority group, hard-luck story, furry animal and tree on the planet. If they can't raise enough by picking your pockets, they'll borrow it and leave future generations to pay-off the debt...

At the opposite extreme, it seems we now have the 'Swivel-eyed Loons'

Why the UK won't win Eurovision...

It was the 2013 Eurovision song contest last night. It was a colourful show and it looked great on the HD TV.

I also managed to sit down and watch and concentrate on the event, undistracted by the crazy ideas of Tweeting what I thought about the individual entries as I was listening to them. Fun as that Twittering is, it does make it harder to study the songs and judge them on their technical merit.

Nightmare in Silver...

Although it has been a difficult week, trying to get those retro silver frames listed on eBay really has been something of a nightmare, I'm not blogging about that problem tonight.

My real reason for blogging is that the most recent episode of Dr Who, entitled Nightmare in Silver has not been terribly well received, in the Twittersphere and elsewhere.

I missed the first screening of this episode, but caught up with it this evening on BBC Three.

The Nanny State doesn't care...

This recent report from the BBC, about carers, seemed spot-on when I read it earlier.

The BBC reports that the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) estimates one in every 20 patients registered with a GP practice is providing unpaid care and claims that About 40% of carers are thought to be at risk of depression or stress because of their caring role.

Bank Holiday Duties

Oh the things we have to do to keep the peace on a Bank Holiday Monday...

Dealing with the cowboys...

I had the cavity-wall insulation cowboys call on me yesterday, though it was a pre-arranged appointment. For once they were not cold-calling in a no-cold-calling zone. I'd responded to the mailshot that you see reproduced here.

Now I normally bin all of these mailshots when they drop through my letterbox, regarding them all with as much suspicion as I do the Lib Dems campaign leaflets, but as I had the time to do so I thought I'd phone the freephone number and check it out. Just this once...

During that phone call, I asked which company would be doing the work but the operator said they couldn't tell me. The surveyor would tell me that when he called.

I thought that was odd and I wasn't very happy with that answer, it was bound to be a company that had a poor reputation when I Gargled it (ruddy spell-checker!), a good reason to be suspicious but I let the situation run, curious to see what happened...