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Nevada Through the Clouds

Getting Near …

Not long now. Just three weeks. And the Disaster Sweepstake is up and running. Icelandic volcanoes with unpronounceable names, dust clouds, awkward airlines. ( I am truly grateful NOT to be flying Ryanair or Malaysian Airlines – there is always one, and in this case two! Don’t tick their boxes. )

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Tesco: What would you call it?

Tesco: Taking away without the owner’s permission.

In the UK, if some yob drives away with your car, you cannot call it ‘stealing’. As the yob does not ‘intend to permanently deprive you of your property’, it is not ‘theft’, it is ‘taking away without the owner’s permission’.

If you buy petrol from a Tesco […]

Letters from Nevada

Getting Ready

Next month, we’ll be off on a trip … … to Nevada. The one in the USA, for anyone who is not sure. And every week, I’ll be posting a letter. All about who, what and whatever I fancy.

I know that I have just said ‘next month’, but a trip like […]