Old Gaffer

>From the cradle we take general companionship for granted, as part of life, nothing special, in fact we don’t even think about it at all. There are circumstances in which association, and indeed friendship, has a very special significance. These are generally if one is taken out of one’s own environment and transferred to something… Continue reading Companionship

You might have had the same problem, I couldn’t understand how David Cameron could suddenly get into a brand-new job, almost the top job in the country, and still be able to wander about, in and out of schools and all sorts of places, presumably including his constituency, smiling all the time, and using the… Continue reading I have had a serious problem

It is not the little people, the young, the elderly, the handicapped, and the impecunious, it is those in big business, rushing for the latest technology, without any thought of the effects their decisions will have on those I’ve mentioned above. It seems to me as a result of my own experience that nobody wants… Continue reading Some of us are obsessed

Ever since we were made aware of the duplicity of Tony Blair, I have been preaching that the safest way to go was with a hung parliament, which takes more time to come to decisions, but at least those decisions are not the decision of one person. What is obvious now is that more than… Continue reading A hung Parliament

Such a silly word for something that I find unnecessary and objectionable. I remember years ago there was a saying running around, ‘if it ain’t bust don’t fix it’. There was also another saying that I think came from Lancashire,’ You get owt for nowt’, meaning there is no such thing as a free lunch.… Continue reading Updates

I am talking about compensation for those people, caught up in the problem created by the dust storm created by the Iceland volcano. Firstly, the people affected are mainly in Northern Europe. Secondly, if the experts are not able to predict accurately how the cloud will perform, how can the passengers, and the aircraft organizations… Continue reading It is late enough as it is

There must be laws either here or in the EU that prevent Microsoft from its insidious and invasive practice of hacking into private computers to determine whether the software is kosher, or has been illegally obtained. Clearly if they are doing it right across the board, they are using some form of robot, because that’s… Continue reading Microsoft’s illegal and insidious robot

As it refers to Northern Ireland, it may put the many people off reading it. Before the election I took an analysis on the way in which any of the candidates were presenting themselves on the leaflets that they put through the doors. I also found it interesting that there was very little personal approach.… Continue reading An election pose-mortem with a difference

I don’t know about your area, but here, in North Down, we have been issued with a little green box, roughly 10 inches, by 10 inches, by 10 inches, in which to put the scrapings of the plates after a meal, or the waste from food preparation, such items as bones, fish, and the sort… Continue reading Lack of imagination

I sat listening to the three speakers who were lecturing us in the so-called debate, which at times was more like listening to arguments in a bar. I would have liked to have heard one of the speakers use the word ‘We’, at least once, but no one did. We are, after all, voting for… Continue reading They talk in the first person singular