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Earthquake in England

After surviving an English earthquake myself (Dudley, West Midlands Earthquake - 23rd September 2002 - measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale) and hearing about recent English earthquake (Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Earthquake - 27th February 2008 - measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale), I had to smile about an email I received from a friend of [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Thursday, March 6th, 2008 - 10:56 pm
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Free Monkey

While doing one of our regular shopping trips, we saw this box of tea containing a free monkey.
PG tips started in Manchester back in 1869 and during the 1950s the first PG tips ‘chimpanzees’ advert appeared featuring the ‘Tipps family’ with all the chimps dressed as humans and drinking tea.
One of these adverts, called ‘Mr. [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 - 8:10 pm
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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Electricity Brown Outs

With the advent of the discovery of global warming, the UK has gone into a mad frenzy to single handedly save the planet.
This little country is being driven by the media to reduce their energy emissions with the finger mainly pointing at the every day citizen to do their bit for the environment.
Although I do [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Monday, February 12th, 2007 - 1:28 am
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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The Hungry Horse in Shrewsbury

Today, gurgi and myself were taken to Shrewsbury Hospital by our good friend Steve P for gurgi’s 20 week detailed scan and afterwards we looked around for a place to eat.
Initially, we were going to visit an all-you-can-eat chinese resturant… but it was closed.
So while Steve was driving us about, I remembered seeing a Hungry [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Friday, January 19th, 2007 - 6:12 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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