Anyone fancy a walk?
I notice that once again November the fifth is fast approaching, which means it must be time for a little bit of seasonal exercise. Old Holborn kicked off this little tradition 4 years ago now so if...
View ArticleDrink, smoke and be happy
It would seem that next week is Alchohol Awareness week brought to us by the fake charity Alcohol Concern. Who seem to believe that booze is the work of the devil and whilst we may start with just a...
View ArticleCredit where credit’s due
In the past I haven’t been shy of giving the whole occupy movement a hard time, and i still think that much of what they do is ill thought out, inconsistent and rather ludicrous. However just as even a...
View Article#alcoholaware2012 – dry January no thanks
Just as No-Smoking day became no smoking month, so the puritans and killjoys are following up Alcohol awareness week with “Dry January”. Not only do they want people to not drink during January – which...
View ArticleDrinkuary an update
As the concept of Drinkuary has now been launched for a whole five days I thought I’d share a small update. Rather gratifyingly the FaceBook event has already over taken Alcohol Concerns “Dry January”...
View ArticleA good day
It’s almost December and today saw the first proper frost of the winter down in my neck of the woods, leaving a shimmer on the bamboo and Cobb nut trees in my garden (pictured), and despite everything...
View ArticleThe endarkenment
With the dumbing down of education and politics and the rise of the new priests of the green god, the god of offense and the god of “health” – who have all demanded that the scientific method, facts...
View ArticleA worthy cause
(Another one first posted over at Drinkuary.org) Whilst it can seem that the world and dog are after our money at this time of year, here’s a worthy cause for your attention: Cocktails in Care Homes...
View ArticlePolitics, navel gazing and Edith Cavell
Just in case the title of this post wasn’t enough warning, I must warn you that this post is rather navel gazing in content and may even tend towards being a bit hippy in places. I do apologize and I...
View ArticleIn the pay of big Drinka
Wow I seem to have made it to the big time, or rather drinkuary has. It would seem that I’m in the pay of “big Drinka” over on the “Bad science” forums they’re discussing drinking and health related...
View ArticleGovernment alcohol strategy consultation
For those of you that aren’t following Drinkaury there’s a whole bunch of new posts up going through the entire government alcohol strategy consultation response form page by page. There’s just 6 days...
View ArticleLiberty Forum London
Thanks to a post over at SamizData my attention was brought to the upcoming Liberty League Freedom Forum in London. the line up of speakers and talks looks good and being close enough to not need...
View ArticlePeople armed with the law
an awesome video showing the power of people informed about the law to resist the illegal actions of court bailiffs and the banks, just because they usually get away with it doesn’t mean the law is on...
View ArticleCharity begins at home : suspended coffees
Taking a break from my usual inane wittering to share a post that’s been doing the rounds on the book of face as I think it’s actually a really cool idea. It helps those in need in your area and also...
View ArticleIt’s still not equality
Catching up on the news that’s happened whilst I’ve been traveling I note that the marriage “equality” bill has got through the lords. I put equality in quotes as it still doesn’t provide equality as I...
View ArticleSon of Echelon
Breaking what’s becoming far too frequent radio silence, and I do apologise for that but life keeps happening, to mutter about John Snowdons revelations. I’m going to try and do the tricky thing and...
View ArticleAnalogies don’t get better
Sometimes life smiles at you and the world creates the most wonderful of analogies. Yesterday as you may have read some Greenpeace protestors decide to climb the Shard. Which is a rather tall building...
View ArticleI feel a flyer/poster campign coming on
It’s Friday and this amuses me, really quite tempted to get a few posters and flyers printed for leaving around, would anyone want some?
View ArticleSalami slicing to a police state
Whilst that nice Mr Cameron is killing free speech and trying to introduce state censorship of the internet to protect us from looking at dirty pictures another more worrying bit of legislation is...
View ArticleThe time swift approaches for a little walk
This year has rather flown by, with revelations of how we’re being spied upon on a scale that would cause many of us to reach for our tin foil hat, the climate apparently isn’t melting down as fast as...
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