Silly Stuff

I spotted the readers offer below in the copy of the Daily Express I was flicking through. The headline proclaims it is selling “Genuine Men’s Leather Shoes“. Now I guess they mean the shoes are made […]

Wandering around the National Trust owned Barrington Court in South Somerset I spotted several of these notices in the multiple historic bathrooms. It was so tempting! The mischievous side of me wants to buy a […]

Venturing away from the relative safety of West Dorset into the uncharted wilds of South Somerset if you stray off the main road north of Crewkerne you could find yourself in the village of West […]

Waitrose customers are so posh they wipe their arses with cashmere!

Say Durex to someone British and as well as feeling slightly embarrassed they will think of the brand of prophylactic that is know owned by Reckitt Benckiser but used to be a product of the […]

A post originally published in May 2014. My telephone rang while I was in the bathroom, I wasn’t expecting a call so I didn’t rush to answer it. They didn’t leave an answerphone message so […]

First published in May 2014. I dislike the word ‘Artisan’, it smacks of pretension and this colours my view of those small businesses that seem to use it as a badge of honour. It doesn’t […]

There is a Yeovil based business that has always amused me. Whenever I have seen ‘Puffin Cleaners‘ I have imagined customers strolling up carrying pet carriers containing grubby sea birds that they wish to have […]

Sky News seemed to think Somerset was a city in this Tweet they posted on Twitter back in 2014. Oops! They then posted the following correction.