Playing the annual game of spotting the fake news stories in Radio 4's "Today" programme. I reckon it's the RSPB repatriating birds that overstay their welcome. An hour later there was an interview with the head of a new government department of statistics. Their job being to release any new official statistics daily on a website. Honest. 0930 today, www.statistics.gov.uk - hmmm, maybe it is real.
Getting on with my life and thinking about things.
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9 comments:
You may also want to look at this amazing software for you photographic types.
http://tinyurl.com/36gowe
And for those who trust tinyurls as much as April 1st 'news' reports, here's the link to the page on the photographic time machine
Just been to the "Office for National Statistics" site - and besides being a waste of taxpayers money, it looks genuine. More pen-pushers and ticky-box officials rather than folk actually doing things for the good of the UK. What a joke.
www.statistics.gov.uk
One of our customers complained today that the internet was slow. I told them it was being shut down across the planet for spring cleaning. They believed me :o)
Doh. Did they leave you their credit card nr too?
I've the "BOFH" excuse generator on my pda. Things like the token fell out. Or - call the Internet's head office.
I gave up carrying my sonic screwdriver after using it at work once.
Coming back to the tin can cooker.
What you want is a Kelly Cooker.
Malc
Seen it in the shops and had decided that would be the next logical step if I was bothered with wood-burning stoves. link
Sadly, I can't see an advantage in them up here in Scotland. Cooking outdoors needs dry weather, fuel and lack of sparks setting dry brush or damage tent. Hey ho, not for me I think. I'll stick with a gas burner - all fits into a small volume and is self-contained. link
Malc - Kelly's a corker ?
aye, both o them :)
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