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Happiness is a resignation called Bartlett

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Two quick news items by way of the inestimable Dick Puddlecote. In reverse order: New smoking laws a farce and apparently there is surprise and welcome news from Stony Stratford regarding everyone’s favourite councillor – I shall leave the nature of the news as an exercise for the reader. Both stories via Facebook, I suspect he’ll have more details up before too very long. Update As predicted Mr Puddlecote does indeed have the news Councillor Bartlett has resigned +20

All about the fuel

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I imagine this is old news and I am in fact way behind the curve as usual, but it’s amazing what you can discover when browsing Homebrew sites*. On the day that wind power being a bit crap starts making waves** I discovered that since 2007 it’s been legal to run your own still to produce up to 2,500 litres of spirits for use in BioFuels. Now as someone that’s quite keen on having a moderate amount of independence and avoiding paying tax on anything I don’t have to pay tax on this seemed a bit too good to be … Continue reading →

Back on the booze

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Well to be fair I’ve not been off the booze, but I am I’m afraid going to go on about the increasing anti-drink agenda. I begin to sympathise with stuck records the world over. They are as Leg Iron has often observed using exactly the same tactics as they did with smoking. Camra and the pub trade are once more, as again LegIron observed, putting up no resistance but just hoping they’ll somehow be spared. The puritans are so blatant and unimaginative in their tactics that even the mainstream media is starting to pick up on it. But then again … Continue reading →