A company in our neighbourhood that installs gates and gates recently changed hands and became famous for its name rather than what they do. Their new name is – Bill’s Gates.

Due to the car issues I mentioned in my previous post, I had to commute to work in train after staying away from them for a good 9 months. What a rip off the fares are. For gettng from home to work, I had to travel to the next station – which was about 3 [...]

Twice in the recent past, my car developed some problems and refused to start. On the first occasion, the culprit was the spark plugs and the coil surrounding it. I got them replaced and the damage was 120 quid.
Exactly a week later, the car didn’t start again. As I had parked it at the basement [...]

Upon hearing a knock at our door on a saturday morning, I opened to find a decent-looking man standing at our door step. He introduced himself, apologised for the unsolicited visit and sought our views on the performance of the local council, cleanliness of the neighbourhood, condition of the roads/pavements, policing, crime, transport and any [...]

In the last few months, quite a few people had mailed me saying that whenever they visit my blog, their anti-virus software gets activated since some virus (possibly, Trojan) was trying to get downloaded on to their PCs. I ran this issue past my webhost, who said that they have run all possible anti-virus checks [...]

I believe that I am back to blogging. In a few week’s time, I will know whether my belief is right.
This is one of the longest break for me from blogging ever since I started doing that in 2003. Not that it actually affected the world or anything, but it did a world of [...]