Category: grace

  • there’s snow business like…

    Snow has finally hit Colchester today. But (other than that initial comment) this is not going to be a snow-related blog entry. After all, it is not the first time that snow has fallen in the UK and there are many places in the world that would regard our reaction to a snowfall as rather…

  • >Cosmetic surgery for cars

    > My car has been having cosmetic surgery. No, not bumper botox or silicone implants in the airbags, it has had a paint job. Around Christmas I managed to catch the corner of a wall with it as I was pulling out of a parking space and this left some deep scratches in the paintwork…

  • Bless a Bureaucrat Day

    Bureaucracy is a necessary fact of life. We need people who organise things for us – those who design bus and train timetables, people who manage the benefits system, the organisational structure in the background behind important services like hospitals and the police. On the whole bureaucrats get a bad press. If you are in…