Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 8:15 pm
This evening, while we were enjoying a very lazy Friday night takeaway, Tiny Flirt came to me for a cuddle.
He arrived with three pieces of pepperoni pizza in his possession: one in each hand and one in his mouth. Even so, when I discovered that he wanted to sample my chicken kebab, I realised that his dazzling affections were merely a ruse - it was, in fact, Cupboard Love. And he got what he wanted.
Later on, after the Tiny One had been put to bed, I discovered that an uneaten piece of greasy pizza had been left on my MacSkin - the suede sleeve for my Apple.
The problem? Only that every female who has heard about this disgraceful behaviour has condoned it - typified by the one who said ‘incorrigible’ with a sigh and a smile.
Well, I disagree. Tiny Flirt is a greedy little yobbo. And if you have fallen under his spell, that is your problem. Don’t expect any sympathy from me. (But I wish I knew what it is he has that makes him so successful with women…)
Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 6:48 pm
…but there is something very wrong with a Prime Minister who has an opinion on Celebrity Big Brother - and is willing to give it to the House of Commons - after keeping his lying gob shut when questioned about the botched hanging of the foreign leader he deposed in an illegal war.
Not wrong in a casual, commenting-in-between-sips-of-a-pint way, but wrong in a gut-wrenching, sickening, offensively hypocritical way. It is cutting a Teflon Overcoat to fit, commenting on safe and easy populist nonsenses while ducking the flak on the big issues he craved the power to control, demands that we entrust to his judgement, and refuses to accept that he was wrong about in the first place.
Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 9:52 pm
In answer to Darling Wifey’s question
You know the Bible 100%!
Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!
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Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 5:41 pm
I was talking to a guru-like senior education official, expressing my disgust at the teaching-by-numbers principles that the Department for Education and Skills is trying to impose onto schools.
Naturally he disputed my comment that teachers are regarded as ‘expendable nuisances’ by local and national government, but he did let slip one comment that illustrates the intention of our esteemed employers.
As much as he appreciated the skills, subject knowledge and professionalism that a colleague and I brought to the task of dissecting a new initiative so that we might better understand how it works and how to apply it - no-one wanted us to do that.
What they want is for us to shut up, stop thinking about what we are doing, and do as we are told.
Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 6:36 pm
I picked up Little Nutter from after school club today, and spent so long chatting with the staff that he got impatient and started to pull me out of the building.
Then when we got back to my car he climbed into the front, fastened his seatbelt, smiled at me and shouted, “Drive me home!”
I think we’ll work on the niceties later…
Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 8:33 pm
It’s “Cute Ruth” again. She was one of “Bliar’s Babes” who won a seat in Parliament in 1997, and since then has become a blithering? sycophant in the Cabinet.
Right now she is in a spot of bother because she upset the socialist idealists in the Labour Party by sending one of her children to a fee-paying independent school.
Frankly, I don’t blame her - I did the same. However, her circumstances are slightly different to mine.
“Cute Ruth” was the Education Secretary in July 2005 when IPSEA (the Independent Panel for Special Education Advice) made this complaint to the Parliamentary Ombudsman - that the Department for Education and Skills fails to prevent Local Education Authorities from breaking the law which entitles children with special educational needs to receive the extra help they need.
If she had fixed the problem then, she would not need to pay for the fix for her own son now.
Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 5:27 pm
This one is personal - aimed at that courier company that drives those hideous brown American-style trucks. You know who you are.
Good customer service doesn’t just mean keeping the people who pay you happy. It means keeping their customers happy, too. So when I obey the instructions on the little card you leave at my house, saying “You were out when we tried to deliver your goods, please phone this number” you had damn well better be able to arrange something suitable.
I do not want to be told that even though your depot is open until 7pm, I cannot come and collect my new laptop. I do not want to be told that I have to be in the house for six hours tomorrow.
What I want from you is what all of the other courier services do - I want? to be given the phone number of? someone sitting behind a desk at my local depot. I want to? hear them say? that they just want the stuff delivered, or collected, ASAP, and they are prepared to make things easier for me just to make sure I get my stuff quickly and securely.
And, more than anything else, I really don’t want to hear your latest corporate slogan telling me how important? I am? when you have just pissed me off.
Just deliver my laptop.
Oh, and the company who asked you to deliver the laptop? The one with the fruity name? They do take customer service seriously. So I told them that your attitude? is lousy, that you want me to take a day off work? in order to get my laptop,? and one of your rivals is much, much better than you. They discuss these things in their regular “team meetings.”
Happy New Year.
