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Nigel Freeney

A Paid-up Member of the Pudding Club…

Yesterday’s BBC regional lunchtime bulletin, Points West  with a blonde roving reporter possibly called Linda?
Reporting on a cook at the school who had managed to win the regional heats of a school cook’s competition and was now due to move forward to the national competition. The reporter looked a bit of a lemon trying to interupt the queue and [...]

Need a little lift?

I found this amazing wedding video which is just brilliant and I challenge you to not feel good after you have watched it…

AA – The yellow team have lost their way going green

I received new AA membership cards through the post today.
With the information came an offer to “Help the Environment” by recycling our old membership cards – by sending them back to the AA to recycle! I think the AA have lost the plot on several levels here:

The environmental impact of returning the cards to the AA [...]

Google inspires…

As you can see from the number of previous posts on this blog that I have not been prolific with my ramblings so far. Part of the reason for that has been the awful Blogger interface (provided by Google) and the fact that I wanted to run my blog from my own domain name. (Of course [...]

Lies, Damned Lies and Misquotes…

I can’t be the only person who gets irritated by the inability of the people who appear on national news programmes to get their quotes and sayings right.
Today was the turn of BBC Weather presenter Louise Minchin who answered a question from one of the news presenters about snow by saying “That’s the 60 million [...]

O2 Premium, Non-Geographic Number Muddle

In general I am happy enough with the price I pay for my mobile phone service through O2.
That said I think their website is too slow and the information could be easier to access.
They have a new Artificial Intelligence widget called “Ask Lucy”
I typed in “Cost of non geographic numbers”
Lucy responded
“I know you’re talking about [...]

Premium Rate Advice for Free

I got a bit of a surprise last week when I investigated why my mobile phone bill was somewhat higher than normal.
I discovered that I had been charged for two calls to a number beginning 0701 and this raised a couple of questions.
1. 0700 numbers are free phone so what the heck is the telephone [...]

You saw it first on .TV

Whilst checking my sites through the Google Webmaster tools today I discovered that some duplicate content was being reported on two pages for Meta Descriptions and Title Tags.
On closer inspection it was actually the same page but Google had a listing for it that included a variable string that was nothing to do with me.
Original [...]

NCP causes a bit of a stink

NCP the national multi-story carpark company has suggested they are thinking of combatting the offensive smell of urine in their stairwells by using automatic scent dispensers.
I am predicting that there will be a number of lawsuits from individuals who get an allergic reaction to whatever substance they choose to spray into the stairwells to mask [...]

Unsure about Esure but now happy with Direct Line!

I had been with Esure for 3 years and thought I could trust them to look after me. We had a couple of motor policies with me on my wife’s policy and vice versa. I am pretty lucky to have 9 years no claims bonus.
I have been unlucky this year in that I bought a [...]