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Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Nov 22nd, 2009
by Dan.
27 comments

We bought Amy a Nintendo DS for her birthday. It’s all part of our grand strategy to stop all conflict within our family. The theory is that if we all focused on individual hand held gadgets rather than each other and reduce all interaction to unintelligible grunts then there will be no [...] Read more »

A request for a signature

Nov 19th, 2009
by Dan.
20 comments

Value added tax (or VAT) is a tax set by the UK government on the vast majority of purchases. It’s a bit like the American sales tax, apart from some subtle differences which I really don’t want to get into in case my brain implodes. VAT is currently set at 15%, but will [...] Read more »

I’ve just been mugged

Nov 14th, 2009
by Dan.
54 comments

Remember when I ranted about how much I dislike the horsey set? And here when I complained about the unstoppable and all pervasive Hannah Montana merchandising machine and it’s effect on my daughter?
Well look what I just went out and spent thirty quid on:

Thirty quid! For a couple of pieces of badly sculpted plastic!! [...] Read more »

They fight. They bite. They bite and fight and bite.

Oct 21st, 2009
by Dan.
34 comments

Remember me posting this a couple of weeks ago?:
If you ask Amy what she wants to be when she grows up she’ll give you one of two answers – either “a famous pop star” or “a horse riding teacher”. It’s very hard not to take these responses as a indication that I’ve [...] Read more »

In which I vent my bile, part 1

Jul 16th, 2007
by Dan.
15 comments

This is a Scottish £5 note. It doesn’t look much like an English £5 note, smells slightly of haggis, and if you hold it to your ear you can hear the sound of distant bagpipes. It is nevertheless legal tender throughout the United Kingdom and has equal value to it’s English counterpart.
Or that’s [...] Read more »