The current sop is definitely related to car tax, either fuel duty or road fund tax. And as ever the wise opposition finds it time to make up complete bullshit to make it look like they care (while at the same time quite happily ensuring the Westminster gravy train carries on regardless, below inflation pay rise my arse).

Anyway...

Apparently shock of of the century, the spellbinding author of Harry Potter is greedy. You would think with her millions (billions?) she could shut the fuck up for once :)

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According to BBC News around 27% people don't know where Jesus (for it is he) was born? link. What I find quite amazing is that 73% actually know, the only thing which describes this most likely fictional character's birth place is the Bible, I would hardly say that is proof of anything...

It was recently my birthday, I get the odd thing from relatives, in many ways not that fussed but there we go, I am getting old :)

Still I got home from holiday and there was a delivery card indicating I had something which did not have enough postage on it. Apparently 1.06 worth of postage. Okay I thought perhaps it is a parcel or something, easy to perhaps incorrectly apply the required postage for something like that. But...

Well I'll start my blog on my utter hatred for the the greatest social mobiliser, yet the greatest bane on mankind, the Automobile.

There is perhaps no lesser example of human intolerance and arrogance than the various forms of the internal combustion engine powering our atrophied, fat, lazy bodies through the dead corpses of millions of years old sea life.