What a day that was - both passed out!

I was in my launderette, emptying the boxes when I noticed a well dressed young man watcing a particular machine very closely.

"Don't worry," I told him "my machines won't damage your clothes."

He stunned me with his reply . . . .

"Oh. They're not my clothes - I never wear anything twice - I always bin my clothes once they have been worn but I do love to watch these machines in action."

Naturally I was a bit disbelieving and asked him why he did this.

"Because I can afford to." was his simp… Continue

One of the things I love to do is discuss things rationally and with some measure of conviction.

I honestly believe that long sales letters are damaging to credibility and had the temerity to say so in a forum. The response from the forum owner, who is someone I had once thought had some intelligence and some ideas from which I could learn, came straight from the gutter:-

"well this is an interesting thread...

The old coot is obviously one of lifes negative disenfranchised people.

They ar… Continue

I have just been informed that a long time friend died recently. He was a few years older than me and we had only been in touch by telephone - not very often at that.

Death has followed me around all my life and I have become somewhat innured to the worst effects of natural loss - but this one marks a bit of a milestone.

I am now the sole survivor of a group that came in touch with each other nearly forty years ago. Talk about having your own mortality brought home with a bang!

In the early d… Continue

Speaking to a friend about Unfettered and the ideal that I understood was behind it I was told that there just wasn't enough time to visit a site that was not about advertising the business.

Everybody, no matter how much responsibility they have thrust upon them, needs to take time out to give the heart and soul a break.

There was a time that I would be on line for ten to twelve hours a day - often with three computers working at different problems at the same time. My health and eye-si… Continue

In the Admin blog the following statement is made:-

I understand that Arthur wants to see no business on the site but that is not a good compromise and the business people we are hoping to have come here are going to feel very unwelcome if we get rid of everything business.

Let's get something straight.

True business people have no reason to invade every private association of people in order to try to further promote their business. The majority of people who are invited here s… Continue