February 27th, 2004
Let me tell you about a job I used to have in my college days in Southampton. I worked in the St. Mary’s part of town in a small sandwich shop making sandwiches. I had to make 100 sandwiches an hour and was paid 1p per sandwich. However, the maximum I could earn for the […]
February 27th, 2004
This morning I received my third postal bonus in ten years. This is an amazing feat as the Post Office only really give these gifts to people who use their service well. Basically it’s a reward for posting and receving letters. The last two times I got a postal bonus it was for £30 but […]
October 2nd, 2003
My current fantasy supermarket multipack: (all walkers) 2x pickled onion flavour 2x worcester sauce flavour 2x chinese spare rib flavour What’s yours?
August 8th, 2003
Our house is mostly double glazed. Bizarrely, a previous owner decided not to bother with two of the windows. This immense heat hardly inspires one to replace old gazing (more likely makes you want to tear all the glazing out in order to create a breeze). But, we’ve got to think of the winter and […]
March 19th, 2003
Further investigation reveals that the mortgage broker has lost our buyer’s mortgage application. It was agreed in principal but the idiots lost all the supporting documentation. This could potentially put us back four weeks. Still, not as bad as it was this morning. The people at the top of the chain are applying pressure as […]
March 19th, 2003
Got a phone call from our estate agent this morning informing us that our buyers might not be in a position to move. They claim that their mortgage company, GMAC, has lost their mortgage application. This information conflicts with the information that the Estate Agent is party to. So, are they weirding out on us? […]
March 6th, 2003
Stephen comments on the fact that Heineken are to relaunch their beer. My brother, Hugh, told me about this some time ago and I totally didn’t believe him. Then, whilst visiting my local Safeway and Tesco superstores I noticed that for over two weeks, neither has had any Heineken in stock. I started to think […]