Month: August 2013

Cosmo Restaurants. Not a good experience.

It’s not often that I blog about bad experiences, but last night I was more than a little unhappy at how we were treated. We went to Cosmo in Wolverhampton. It was for my nephews’ tenth birthday and we arrived with balloons and a big number “10” cake. Now, first of all, we’d never been to Cosmo before. It’s basically… Read more →

Rail fares up again

Our wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. Meanwhile, companies are increasing the prices of everything above inflation. Rail fares are the latest to increase and I found this comment (pinched from the BBC News site) particularly true… This is Government thinking: We need to reduce car journeys : Increase fuel duty = less people in cars, more on the trains… Read more →

Anthony Weiner is a tool

On my trips to the US I’ve often had locals comment on my accent. It ranges from “cute” to “great” or “wonderful”. This is mainly because the US public hasn’t heard the various British accents that often. It’s not on TV much and it’s not familiar, which is the complete opposite of us with the American accents we hear on… Read more →

People, I’ll let you into a secret

Obviously there’s a lot of anger about the ask.fm website at the moment. Rightfully so. A teenager recently hung herself after getting bullied on the site. Unfortunately the fix to this won’t happen, at least not quickly. Firstly there’s the big problem. Bad parenting producing kids who never learn about consequences. These kids can use the internet unmonitored, writing anything… Read more →