Neil Hopcroft

“Noodling is an ancient fishing method in which the fisherman wiggles his or her hand underwater near a bed of fish in hopes that a catfish will bite or, even better, swallow his hand” (from jwz, again, perhaps of interest to edling who might need to know that noodling is currently illegal in Missouri…but probably […]

I’ve been pondering trying to consolidate my pension provision (I have about five little pensions, each representing something around two years of contributions, none of which are really worth anything on their own), so I’m trying to figure out what I should do…I’m tempted by the concept of SIPP, but I don’t think the pot […]

Its amazing what you can see if you’ve already decided what you’re looking at, isn’t it? I was accused, earlier this evening, of sneaking some items into the previous buyers shopping….as if I’d choose that non-name junk if I thought I wouldn’t have to pay for it? Pah! Sadly he’d failed to notice there was […]

“Always buy a cheap camera with a big traveler’s check at a drug store” she tells me. “That will be so obviously a tourist move they won’t even look twice. Take pictures, but not of anything that will identify where you are. Don’t even play around with that. A street sign in the background, the […]

“At first there were just a few isolated reports, but soon the nation was in the grip of an epidemic of exploding trousers” (sadly only a partial article available online – evilmattikinz might be interested in finding out some more while he’s in the area?)

One for the conspiracy theorists: N379P

Game reserves, dovecots, towers, fishing rights, theatres, and odd items for sale. “the safest house in Britain…an ordinary-looking 4 bed bungalow on the outside, but beneath is a nuclear bunker” or anyone want to go halves on “74 foot concrete water tower with outline planning permission for a commercial recording studio”?

Just trying out the picture hosting…

Happily some of the tension I had feared from a conversation on Tuesday night wasn’t present…there was no need for tension in the first place and I was annoyed with myself for letting it get that way… Today I was struck by a distinct change in clientel at Tescos while I was buying lemsip for […]

“Create a no-win situation for anti-choice protesters — the more picketers who demonstrate outside a Planned Parenthood clinic, the more donations the Planned Parenthood clinic receives.” Someone buy this man a playstation. “We looked at each other, took a deep breath, and launched the application. The monitor burst into flames….This doesn’t suck” “mysterious cloud formation […]