Taking over everything in sight and making existing users of whatever it was jump through ever-changing hoops to get access. Or not. This is not the first time this has happened and now I think I've had enough. Think I'm going to abandon my other blog and start a new one when I've had time to look around and see what other blogging platforms are ( Read more... )

- the White Horse of Kent being waved enthusiastically at the Albert Hall last night.

Can we have a referendum? After all, we were a kingdom first!!! And we have our own laws and customs.

The Queen is not Her Royal Highness ( Read more... )

- if she's 'surprised' at hearing schoolchildren addressing their teachers as 'Sir' and 'Miss'?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27403902

Go and look!

The BBC has a story about a woman who was asked by a checkout operator in Sainsbury's to end her mobile phone call before being served. The woman customer apparently says she's going to take her custom elsewhere in protest. Sainsbury's wants to apologise to her and offer a £10 voucher in recompense ( Read more... )

From a story on the BBC website this morning -

The Queen will be introduced to people who worked on the building project, and a number of TV personalities...
I know old rules of etiquette aren't strictly observed any more, but this one bugs me. The Queen isn't introduced to anyone. People are introduced to her. The BBC should know this ( Read more... )

- that Alex bloody Ferguson was royalty, the amount of media attention his abdication resignation is getting.

I didn't watch all of it, but I thought what I did see of the BBC's coverage of Baroness Thatcher's funeral was immeasurably better than their Jubilee coverage last year. David Dimbleby did the commentary on the event as well as hosting the studio guests - all of whom (that I saw) had something interesting and relevant to contribute. There wasn't ( Read more... )

My printer is old. That means that a) I can only buy the ink cartridges online and b) they are expensive ( Read more... )