True story - maybe. 20 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm

This is alleged to be the actual text of a letter received by the Revenue Commissioners from a Co. Longford farmer in reply to an income Tax demand. Dear Sirs, Your letter arrived this morning in an...

Phew, what a scorcher! 22 Jul 2013 | 05:55 pm

Being as I don't have to sit by the computer all day, I've been enjoying the weather. As a result blogging has taken a back seat, although there is plenty to blog about. From the institutional idiocy ...

Well, who would have guessed? 25 Jun 2013 | 02:36 am

Parents warned they could face court for lighting up at home in front of kids It's those crazy Jocks again!!!! Sheriff Scott Pattison claimed the mother-of-three’s ciggie habit showed a “lack of par...

Edicashon, Edgemakation, Eddicajun 23 Jun 2013 | 05:08 am

 Alan Caruba writes on the problems that that beset the educational system in America. They are the same as those which beset our own system and I would imagine that in both cases the rationale behind...

Jeeeeeeeeez, I bet that made your parents proud! 14 Jun 2013 | 03:25 pm

You couldn't make it up, but you know it's true. 14 Jun 2013 | 03:40 am

Salterforth Primary School pupils take a stand against smoking Pupils from Salterforth Primary School are among several students from across Pendle who have designed signs with hard-hitting anti-smok...

Girls and grunters. 6 Jun 2013 | 06:28 pm

I thought that this was a spoof, but it's not. See here for the home page and here for the babes and boars gallery. So, let us contrast and compare. But whats to compare? We have nothing like this in...

'I'm Tired' - variation on a theme. 30 May 2013 | 06:16 pm

I found this doing the rounds.Now, I can't say that I agree with everything here 100%, but I'm OK with it generally. It seems to be mainly common sense anyway, something that our rulers have little of...

Paramilitary policing. 18 May 2013 | 01:14 pm

Tom Uttley, writing in the Daily Mail, makes some timely observations on the increasing militarisation of the police and their increasing indifference to the general public. They are starting to behav...

Gardening. 17 May 2013 | 04:03 am

What little has been planted is not thriving and has been subjected to a continuous assault by the twenty million or so snails and slugs that appear to live there. If you add to this the fact that the...