Eccentrics – Mickey Rourke

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 [...]

Rules and Regulations

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 [...]

Red Devil update

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 [...]

Poorly Red Devil

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 [...]