“The Tories would tax people less than Labour if they won the next general election, Iain Duncan Smith has said. “The party leader claimed the goal would be achieved by cutting ‘bureaucracy and waste’ in public services.” – BBC News Unfortunately for Iain, we haven’t yet forgotten about the bureaucracy and waste the Tories created ...

Yesterday I went out with some friends to watch Coventry Crusaders playing Westminster Warriors at the Coventry Sports Centre. (That’s basketball, by the way). It was a really close game, with only two points in it at half time, and level at full time, forcing extra time. Eight seconds from the end of the game ...

Today I went for a walk around the neigbouring streets. My company is designing a website for an estate agents and we needed some photos of houses to go on the front page, so I though I’d go and see what I could find round here. There’s not a huge choice of houses to photograph ...

I have my guitar. It’s the nicest acoustic guitar I’ve had. Regent Guitars also give you a free set of strings after six and twelve months and another setup at twelve months. You also get a ten percent discount on further purchases, so I got myself a hard case and a few sets of strings ...

I just discovered Google’s calculator today. It’s very clever – type something like (4+5)*2 and press search and it’ll give you the answer. You can also try stuff like 30 litres in uk gallons or 15 kg in slugs. On an unrelated note, I just gone bought me a new geetar. I don’t have it ...

I finally have my insurance sorted out at the new address, where I’m now paying £345, as opposed to the £720 that the other insurance company wanted. I mentioned that I’d got a quote of £390 the other day – but today I went on the internet again and they quoted me £405, so I ...

Hooray, I have broadband at home again! It’s actually installed for the church office (which is the downstairs part of this house), but I’ve installed network cabling so I can plug my laptop in in any room in the house. Except for the kitchen and bathroom. I’ll probably start posting a lot more entries on ...