www.knowhowe.wetpaint.com
Yes, it's up and running but, according to the site meter I set up the other day, the total number of visitors to date is ....... o. Yeppp. Zero, zilch, null-komma-nix!! Hmmm. Have to work a bit more on that.
Telegraph Blog attracting a bit more response. Today I posted one on Heather McCartney Mills. Given her solid negotiations skills - 25 million quid's not bad for just a few hours' in court - I mused what she might be worth on the international after-dinner circuit. One chap replied suggesting two farthings. Another, answering to the nom de plume of frozenhand, called me a "Crazy old Russian monk" and decided I'd finally got it right. Ah well, at least he'd been following my blog regularly. This has got me thinking though - could there possibly be people out there who have nothing better to do all day than read and comment on strangers' blogs?
Donnerstag, 20. März 2008
Sonntag, 16. März 2008
My Polish wife and I watched with interest the BBC 2 documentary “The Poles are coming”. As the programme inferred, there’s no such thing as unemployment in Britain. If you’re not fussy about what you do – and clearly, unlike young Brits, Poles have no problem picking butternut squash oranges 10 hours a day at just above the minimum wage – there’s plenty work available.
Sure the “yuuufs” quizzed on the street quickly turned on their heels when offerded this type of work. Why bother getting up at the crack of dawn and labouring all day in the Fenns. State handouts are far more attractive.
My spouse tells me that in Poland you either work or go hungry. State benefits are negligible. Little wonder so many Poles are attracted to Britain. Loads of jobs (that Brits won’t do) three-times better paid than back home. Who can blame them?
Rather than fetching the mayor of Danzig over to Peterboro’ to lure his countryfolk back home, perhaps the BBC should be sending British DHSS officers over to Danzig.
Sure the “yuuufs” quizzed on the street quickly turned on their heels when offerded this type of work. Why bother getting up at the crack of dawn and labouring all day in the Fenns. State handouts are far more attractive.
My spouse tells me that in Poland you either work or go hungry. State benefits are negligible. Little wonder so many Poles are attracted to Britain. Loads of jobs (that Brits won’t do) three-times better paid than back home. Who can blame them?
Rather than fetching the mayor of Danzig over to Peterboro’ to lure his countryfolk back home, perhaps the BBC should be sending British DHSS officers over to Danzig.
Samstag, 15. März 2008
Bluewaterisation
"Inside the Wintergarden, the first thing I see is a statue. Rising perhaps 20 feet high, dominating all around it. It is a statue of a Coke bottle. Affixed to its sides are four telescreens, silver and rounded, beaming out Coke adverts and Sky news. Behind the statue rise six imposing white stone pillars, holding up a high atrium of glass and steel. On top of every pillar is a brace of CCTV cameras. Everything I am doing is being monitored."
What actually sounds like the stuff of sci-fic is an actually an extract from Paul Kingsworth's latest book "Real England", in which he talks about the "bluewaterising" Britain. I wonder just how long we'll have to wait to see that lovely creation enter the dictionary, or, more worrying, until disneyesque malls, Starbucks and and Tesco Expresses on every street corner are regarded as the norm.
What actually sounds like the stuff of sci-fic is an actually an extract from Paul Kingsworth's latest book "Real England", in which he talks about the "bluewaterising" Britain. I wonder just how long we'll have to wait to see that lovely creation enter the dictionary, or, more worrying, until disneyesque malls, Starbucks and and Tesco Expresses on every street corner are regarded as the norm.
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