Monthly Archives: January 2009

The impossibility of buying a car

Sit comfortably and I’ll tell you how difficult it is to buy a car from Perrys of Aylesbury. Two weeks ago, we contacted them to indicate that we would like to buy a new Fiat Panda from their good selves. A discussion was had about options, and a deposit paid. Having not heard anything back [...]

Driving Instructor Berks/Bucks

I don’t normally do this kind of thing, which is wrong, because we should take time to blurt about fantastic people – they seldom get any other kind of special reward. For most of my 30 years I have been a non-driver. I am not entirely ignorant of roads, being a persistent cyclist, but I [...]

Knowledgescape

I’ve finally got round to setting up a slightly nerdier blog for my main interests – knowledge and communication. I’ve stolen some posts from my purplekitten.co.uk blog and shoved them into knowledgescape.co.uk, hope that’s okay I’ve also just shifted this blog onto the hosting server, so it’s no longer running on our rubbish ADSL. That’s [...]

Weird Words

anthomania flower mania bibble to drink often or much; to drink or eat noisily capax legally competent dorty bad-tempered eidetic pertaining to the ability of visualising something previously seen flexanimous mentally flexible galliardise great merriment hypnomogia insomnia ichnogram footprint jobation tedious criticism karimption a crowd; a mass leptology a boringly detailed discourse on trivial subjects [...]