While standing in the queue at Tesco earlier I suddenly realised how much we seem to use Tesco for now. Not just the “can you pop in and pick up a pint of milk” type use either.
I renewed my car insurance the other day. With Tesco of course. Mich has her car insured with them [...]
Jean Todt denies he was asked abou a chicane - although he admits that Ferrari wouldn’t have accepted it anyway.
about the farcical Amercian GP (link found posted by Atuin).
Interesting. Of course, Ferrari and Jordan haven’t commented yet…
I see today that child tax credits are in the news again.
We claim child tax credit. Or rather, we try to claim child tax credit. Since the start of April we have recieved 3 copies of a huge tax credit claim booklet with all of our details in each. That’s 6 identical documents. When I [...]
As I type this I’m sitting watching a 6 car GP. Michelin have a problem in that their tyres can’t cope with the banked corner #13. They have recommended to all of their teams (7 out of the 10 teams) that they don’t race following the failure of Ralfs tyre on Friday *unless* an extra [...]
Day off work yesterday so we could all head to Legoland. Jake wanted to go so I had to tag along (I wasn’t at all keen you understand). Once again we cashed in some of our Tesco clubcard vouchers and got free tickets (20 quids worth of Tesco vouchers exchanged for over 60 quids worth [...]
bought a couple of new toys the last couple of days. Firstly, dad dropped the camera while on holiday and managed to stuff the focusing ring on my 70-210 zoom
Soon sourced a much nicer 75-300 zoom with the USM motor. It’s not the sharpest lens about but is better than the crappy old [...]
Having impressed Mrs DMC with a couple of items I’ve got from ebay recently (a cheap DECT phone and a GPS if you really want to know) she started making comments like “so, what else do they sell then?” and “Hrm. Can I use your account - I’m not sure I’m interested enough to create [...]
The last few days has seen reports that the government is proposing a trial of a system that will charge road users depending on the roads that they use. Sounds like a good idea - road tax is pointless and costs a fortune to collect and the tax on petrol is somewhat blunt. Why should [...]
NICEIC bollocks
Spectacular.