Other Stuff

Originally written in August 2015. Royal Mail have delivered an official looking letter which is headed in big bold letters “UNIFORM TAX REBATE“. The letter goes on to tell me I have been identified as […]

First published in June 2015. When I went into the Nisa convenience store earlier today I had no intention of buying a can of fizzy pop but there in the cooler cabinet was this green […]

I was indulging in a crafty pint a while when I noticed an old Toby Bitter beer pump fitting sat on the top shelf above the bar. I had not seen or heard anything of […]

The piece below is from March 2015 I spotted the sign above near Wayford, just south of Crewkerne in Somerset earlier today declaring “Wayford Woods Closed“. I guess this is as a consequence of all […]

I guess there are not too many video clips of Adge Cutler speaking rather than singing in existence so I was fascinated to see the one below

Are your shoelaces constantly coming undone? Fed up with having to keep retying them? Well according to a chap called Ian you are probably tying them the wrong way. So devoted is Ian to teaching […]

An observation from May 2014. The building now houses a solicitors office. There was speculation in the local press in recent months that the Co-operative grocery store in Falkland Square in Crewkerne was going to […]

Remember Pascall Fruit Bon Bons? I seem to recall them being available as one of the sweet selections in Woolworths pick and mix. They were an oblong shaped boiled sweet in a variety of fruit […]

Someone brought the website U.K. National Grid Status to my attention and I have to admit I have bookmarked it out of nerdy fascination. It shows in pretty much real time how much demand there […]

I fondly remember eating Freddo chocolate frogs made of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate back when I was a kid. All these long years later Cadbury Freddo bars are still on sale. Given how quintessentially British […]