Not really an Eccentric but one of a kind nevertheless. What a guy – fought back through his troubled early and middle life to a better place and now he’s achieved a lot of professional success. Love his taste in clothes, shame he’s pictured with a drink in his hand so often. It would be so [...]
You have to cover all bases these days. Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity, Complaints Procedure etc. Our Parish Council has been going for 140 years without needing a Compliance Document but we have to think about one now it seems. If I were a Councillor, my personal thoughts on Complaints would be along the lines of [...]
Hooray I’ve got my wheels back but I’m nearly £700 poorer. The water pump caused the damage but didn’t give me any warning signs. On the upside – as if there is one – they put a new part on which would have needed doing in about another year and would have cost £200 or [...]
Disaster – I’m carless for the Red Devil has blown a cylinder head gasket. Bereft, bothered and bewildered and facing a bill of anywhere between £500 and double that! Of course him indoors says it’s all my fault just because I was in it at the time. A few days later – talk about coincidence [...]





