2009 October | Head Rambles

It was a lovely mail. It said that because I had sailed on the Ireland – France route during the summer, that I was entitled to a free return trip to the UK next year.

Have you made a return trip to France in Summer 2009? If so, you are entitled to a FREE return trip to Britain!

The trip is for a car and 2 adults return on our cruise ferry services from Dublin to Holyhead or Rosslare to Pembroke so you can get away from the doom and gloom without spending a penny of your hard earned cash! Cheer yourself up – book your FREE trip NOW.

This was great news as I always wanted to show Herself around my old stomping ground around Somerset. She deserves a holiday, as the coal hole is quite draughty.

I spent Thursday night happily browsing around the Interweb looking for suitable accommodation.

I found a lovely place in a wee village called Wedmore which is quite close to Cheddar. They like smokers there, and Sandy would be welcome too, and it was only 100 yards crawl from the pub.

Perfect.

I spent a happy couple of hours dreaming of wandering the Mendips. I could visit my old haunts in Cheddar, Wells and Bath. I might even let Herself do some shopping.

Before I did anything permanent though, I decided to check on a couple of things with those fucking arseholes in Irish Ferries.

I wrote them a nice email, thanking them for the nice offer, and could they confirm that there weren’t any restrictions, such as having to return within half an hour of arriving. I also wanted to find out exactly when I could go, as the offer is for ‘off peak’, and their web site wasn’t too clear on that matter.

I had checked their site thoroughly, as it gave the terms and conditions of the offer, but I couldn’t find a definition of ‘off peak’.

Anyway, the fucking arseholes wrote back yesterday.

They said I’m not entitled to the offer, because although I travelled with them during the offer period, I came back in September, and apparently some fucking arsehole in Irish Ferries has decided that September isn’t summer.

Fucking arseholes.

A Silver Lining

Grandad October 9th, 2009

Damn! Blast! Bother! Knickers and Spit…..

I thought my problems were over but apparently they are not.

The site is flying along and I thought everyone was happy, but then I got a couple of emails.

Apparently a lot of people are stuck on the Rampant Lesbianism post, which is a tad unfortunate.

I don’t know what the fuck is going on. Something to do with cache?

If yiz are all stuck in a time warp, then there ain’t much point in my writing anything new.

Every cloud has a sliver lining.

A no brainer

Grandad October 8th, 2009

I watched the news last night.

I watch it at six most nights, just to see my Sharon, but that’s beside the point.

There was an item on about some crowd who are worried about brain injuries caused by falling off bicycles. That’s fair enough – I would be worried if I suffered a brain injury from falling off a bicycle.

Now, I’m sure these people are genuine and sincere, but they really pissed me off.

They are calling on the government to make the wearing of cycle helmets compulsory.

What the fuck is it about modern society, that any time anyone is injured, the cause has to be the subject of legislation?

I don’t cycle these days, due to a combination of ~~laziness~~ age and living in a very hilly area, but if I did, it is unlikely I would wear a helmet. I hate those idiotic looking bunches of plastic bananas, and anyway I like to feel the wind in my hair. I am a reasonably mature adult, so my attitude is that if I did fall off and crack my head, then that is my fault. I just would make sure I didn’t fall off. I know there are dangers associated with cycling, just as there are dangers associated with just about anything, so I take the appropriate care.

What I do not need is some fucker coming along and demanding a law to protect me against my own mistakes.

A spokeswoman said on the news that it was a “no brainer” that the law should be introduced.

She was spot on there.

A society that need to be carefully wrapped in nice soft legislation in case it hurts itself is a no brain society.

I got very annoyed at that news item.

I got perilously close to a heart attack.

They should introduce a law banning items about people wanting to introduce laws.

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