Are you like me and cringe everytimne the phone rings? It’s either someone you don’t really want to talk to, someone phoning up for money, someone trying to sell you something - or family.
Now family and friends is OK, but if you haven’t got the little screen which displays the phone number, you are often […]

It may seem by now that I’m telly mad, but I do only watch a maximum of about two hours TV a day. Many days I don’t watch any.
But I know what I like and I guess that’s OK.
So, ‘The Dragons Den’. Five entrepreneurs watching brief presentations of peoples ideas for starting or expanding their […]

The second series of the classic TV production ‘Life on Mars’ comes to our screens this week. If it’s up to the first series and sticks to a ’strangely’ believable plot, it’ll be fantastic.
The fascination of this sort of programme to me is that it’s something which has interested me since a young age and […]

I enjoy watching ‘10 Years Younger’ on Channel 4. It would give me hope, but for the approx £6,000 needed to sort myself out - probably more, a lot more!
The concept is quite simple; How old do they look according to 100 people, how old they actually are and what do they look after the […]

I had the unfortunate experience of staying in today (couldn’t do my bitumastic painting because of adverse weather conditions!).
I thought I’d use the time by going through the website checking up on links and generally faffing around as we say. Very productive I thought.
Anyway, all day I could hear the 24hour television news. It was […]

Studying genealogy, it was not that long ago that some people were entered in a Census as ‘imbosil’ and riding my Moped 14 miles from Ashford to Canterbury almost every day, I think some could be, and should be, classed as just that again.
I can guarantee that on a weekday, any car which overtakes me […]

There has been much said and disclosed recently about the unfairness of Bank charges and the way in which customers have been handled by certain ‘institutions’.
Sentences such as ‘delay tactics’ have been used and the BBC, in the Money Matters programme, has challenged the legality of them under the Trading Standards act - with much […]