Month: July 2025

Petition: Ditch the Online Safety Act

Apparently a thing called “The Online Safety Act” came into force this week in the United Kingdom.

Apparently it is already being used in ways similar to dictatorships such as China and Cuba get frequently criticised for engaging in.

A Petition to get rid of it is gaining signatures at a rather rapid rate of knots, getting in excess of 129k signatures at time of cobbling this together.

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Stuff I’m Currently Trying to Read

When it comes to reading, I’m usually not interested in wasting my time on silly story books, and with the exception of books written by Jeremy Clarkson and James Delingpole, tend to only bother with putting books I can learn skills such as fixing things or making money onto my reading list.

The current batch is no exception, after starting a surge in buying hard copies of books from the …for Dummies range of self-help books after first starting with a few full copies of them from the Amazon Kindle Store. Continue reading “Stuff I’m Currently Trying to Read”

Shopping Trip with a View

By this Tuesday just gone (8th July), we we’re running short of stuff again, specifically butter and bread.

We were completely out of butter (regular + spreadable stuff), while the sourdough I’d gotten for my Dad from Morrison’s on that trip I posted about earlier: one from a brand called “Jason’s” had run out, while the Morrison’s in-house bakery thing had gone so hard you could probably use it to take out an Iranian nuclear facility if you dropped it from a high enough height (and I’d had difficulty getting a clean slice out of it, wasting most of it).

So it was off to Aldi and Sainsbury’s again. Continue reading “Shopping Trip with a View”

A Blocked Drain and a Broken Wall

Last Thursday (3rd July) I found yet more things around the house that needs fixing.

I was just coming back upstairs via the yard after having to go downstairs to do something or other, when I spotted a wet patch from the drain in the corner of the steps being blocked while the washing machine was draining my laundry.

Then when holding onto the wall to haul myself round to avoid paddling in it more than necessary, I found the capping stone and one of the corner bricks on the wall up the side of the steps had come free from their mortar bed. Continue reading “A Blocked Drain and a Broken Wall”

Shopping in Scarborough

Last Wednesday (2nd July) I decided to pop over to Scarborough to attempt some supermarket shopping for a few bits and bobs I can’t get locally.

First stop was the Morrisons on the outskirts of Scarborough, my first trip there (that I can remember) since Kungflu, and my first since I lost my shares in the company after they got bought out.

When I got there I was getting pretty crossed-eyed, so first spot I went was the toilets. No soap in the left-hand dispenser, and only a few dregs of foamy crap in the one on the right, and only cold water out the tap. Continue reading “Shopping in Scarborough”