I've been an avid Terry Pratchett reader for years and even once met him (briefly) when I queued for hours with my mate Rich to get my copy of Soul Music signed (and monogrammed with a little scythe) back when I was at uni, so like all Pratchett readers I was saddened to learn a while back that he has a rare from of Alzheimers, a disease which is little understood and which needs a lot of research to try and find effective treatments.It's a terrible thing to happen to anyone but when the mind involved is one which has devised a fantasy world that...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 5:41 pm with No comments
Today is budget day in the UK. Woo and indeed quite literally hoo. Generally it's just a way for the incumbent Chancellor of the Exchequer to tell us that overall he will be rummaging about a bit deeper in our collective pockets over the forthcoming year in order to finance illegal occupations, ministerial expenses and monolithic 'national' projects which inevitably cost a fortune and bring precisely no benefit to anyone. Sorry, I meant improvements in healthcare, education and social infrastructure, of course.Anyway, little of it ever comes as...
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 7:12 pm with 2 comments
...It gon' rain! A lot by all accounts, and it'll be windy enough to ruffle the undergarments of incautious ladies who have a penchant for mid-20th century underwear and quite possibly take your chimey pot off or uproot a tree. I love storms so I hope this one comes with all the trimmings like thunder and lightning. According to the Met Office it'll most likely be the worst storom of the winter, natures last crack of the winter whip before spring proper starts to really get a grip on things. Watch those falling trees and the like fol...
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:56 am with No comments
One of the few remaining hereditary peers has been gobbing off about nurses at the Royal United Hospital in my adopted city of Bath. The peer in question is Lord Mancroft, a former heroin addict (and also cocaine, alcohol and pills), Old Etonian and so far as I can see a general waste of space and deeply unqualified to be a law maker for any reason other than the fact his dad was one.The nature of the slur stems from a stay at the RUH for Mancroft in august 2007 and in essence he claims that the nurses were grubby, lazy, drunken and promiscuous....
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