Enough old rope to hang oneself

In the first paragraph of Gerry Rafferty’s obituary by The Guardian, it mentions that his royalties for Baker Street were still bagging him £80k a year. How come more people don’t seem to realise how ridiculous this is?

I wanted to buy a house

I wanted to buy a house.

The nationalists said I had no right to live here. They would take my house from me.

The capitalists said I should buy several, create scarcity, protect my investment.

The democrats called for a referendum.

The socialists were suspicious. They did not understand why I would need to buy a house.

The communists said I had no right to my own home. They would take my house from me.

The anarchists were least concerned. Good luck, they said. Just remember it doesn’t really belong to you.

Every inaction…

So today I’m going to have a camera stuck down my throat, and another shoved… somewhere else. I’m trying not to dwell too much on the fact that had this been done eleven years ago, when I first went to the doctor with concerns about my guts, then maybe I could have been spared at least some of the problems that have followed. But it’s hard not to.

Charlie Simpson is fundraising for UNICEF UK – JustGiving

Age: 7
Target: £500.00
Total raised online: £67,964.00
Gift Aid plus supplement: £16,698.43

Awe inspiring stuff.

Charlie Simpson is fundraising for UNICEF UK – JustGiving.

Who Would Jesus Employ?

The BBC News website is carrying an article entitled “Churches fear Equality Bill will conflict with faith“. I don’t know the degree of accuracy, but it alleges that bishops (it doesn’t say which bishops) are concerned that they might be forced to employ gay people, and are preparing for a fight in the House of Lords.

How to succeed in any job

You can’t get through as many jobs as I have without learning a few things. So here I present a list of my five top tips to help you get along wherever you work.

Intentionally Selfish

Today, and not for the first time, we have found somebody else’s waste outside our front door. We have a driveway. We have a front garden. This is not a case of somebody slinging things over our fence as they run past. They have made a deliberate effort to carry it up our drive and put it by our door. They can see our bins are full to overflowing already, as like so many others we didn’t have a refuse collection last week. They’ve made a decision that they are going to choose to exacerbate our problem rather than deal with their own.