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The charging of service

According to Wikipedia, it is believed that in Western European culture the practice of giving a tip or gratuity began around 1600 – the first reference to ‘giving a gratuity’ is apparently specifically dated to 1706 – and ‘tip’ was probably first adapted for use in a slang context from [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Road to Damascus

Old people – and I am one – who needs them, huh? Before the pedants among you get out your New Testaments and quote the story about the desirability of taking the beam out of your own eye before taking the mote of someone else’s [at first I wasn’t going to look the reference up, but then I [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

British Gas/ parts 4 and 5

I honestly thought I would not be boring you on the ongoing saga of British Gas and that after the appointment was made yesterday morning for an electrician to repair the damage to circuitry they caused that would be the end of the affair. I had severely underestimated their gross inefficiency. At [...]

May 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

British Gas saga (part three)

Having stayed in all Saturday afternoon two weeks ago for the British Gas electrician to repair the damage they caused in installing a smart meter he never appeared, nor did I receive any word of apology. I duly complained and my complaint is being processed. I did receive a voice mail message from [...]

May 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

British Gas saga ( part two)

My father had a wonderful phrase to describe a dashboard of the motor cars which he liked to trade every two years: “It’s got the mug’s eyeful” I cannot think of better description of the smart meter whose most useful feature is the clock and has many of which I am unaware [...]

May 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brave new world

One of the leitmotifs of the Rust is the difficulty we oldies experience in dealing with the new techno/internet world. We are the generation that went overnight from ignorance to word and world of windows over night. Being a bachelor I am not susceptible to the same pressures to get things done [...]

May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of changing one’s car

When you get to my age the years tend to fade to blancmange – you could ask me in which year between about 1997 and 2009 anything notable in my past happened and in all honesty I’d be guessing and probably have about a one in six chance of getting it right – so when I say I bought my current [...]

March 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

The eyesight conundrum

Yesterday – some six months after I received a reminder from my local high street chain – I toddled along for my latest eye test, my two previous ones having been in 2014 and 2011 (as I learned minutes into my exam). Now in my mid-sixties I have had a so-so relationship with eye tests and [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

A close shave on a shopping expedition

Sometimes, looking back, the little things that happen to you seem to give you access to insights upon more universal matters – such occurred to me yesterday. I’ve been at the stage for a while now where not only do those close to me tease about supposed ‘senior moments’ or possible [...]

November 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Roger, over … and out

Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Whilst spending Friday and Saturday with my aged parent in the country – in a spot where mobile network signals are sometimes variable to the point where anyone wishing to use a mobile tends to to set off towards the bottom of the garden in the quest to [...]

October 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

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