Tag: advertising

  • yet another shameless plug

    I am afraid this is another shameless plug for the magic show that I am putting on along with my friend (and wonderful magician) Richard Jones (see his Facebook page here and be amazed). The show is on 23rd May at South Woodham Ferrers Village Hall, starting at 7.30pm. (There is a bar at the Hall…

  • the effect of irritation

    I’d had enough. I couldn’t cope with it any more. I snapped. And with vouchers saved judiciously over several years I bought a new set of phone handsets for our home landline. The reason was that I was fed up with the regular bombardment of unsolicited phone calls — recorded and live – trying to get…

  • intriguingly different

    Yesterday Sally and I enjoyed afternoon tea (little fingers raised) at Wivenhoe House Hotel – a wedding anniversary gift we thoroughly enjoyed. The picture here doesn’t fully do justice to it, but you get the idea… I was fascinated by the hotel’s strapline: “intriguingly different”. That is an intriguing strapline, it’s certainly different. It is…

  • MOTs and Posters – find a link if you can!

    This morning I dropped my car off at a garage for its annual MOT test. I don’t think that there is anything major wrong with it, but I always leave it with a sense of apprehension in case there is something terminal or expensive hidden under the bodywork.   As I was walking home I noticed…

  • statistically speaking again

    I have noticed a trend with the visits you are making to my blog. When someone else advertises a bloggage lots more of you visit than on the other occasions. That’s what the chart above reveals. The significant peaks in views and visits coincide with the occasions when one of my bloggages was featured on…