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Odd Poems A world in verse.
Dave's Book List |
At one time, women drivers were the butt of many a joke. The majority of drivers were men, and a woman driver was ‘obviously less capable’ than a man. Utter claptrap, of course, but a lot of inept male drivers needed some target to deflect criticism from their own inadequacies. Just how they coped with […] Dear Coca-Cola. My wife happened to like the original Coke Zero. Now you have gone and improved it. Why? Did you not learn from the last time that you improved Coca-Cola. New Coca-Cola turned out to be one of the all-time great corporation screw-ups. A ‘Classic’ disaster, self-inflicted and utterly stupid. So, of course, you […] I recently posted my experiences dealing with the Whirlpool corporation, and their inept handling of the ‘Dangerous Tumble Dryer Farce’. When will they come and fix it? In May, they said June. In June, the said [blank] On the phone, they insisted that it would be June. The manager confirmed it. Right up to the […] Went and visited Ely, once again. I like the place. You can keep Newmarket, and Cambridge is a dead-loss – full of buses, cyclists and hypodermic needles. Ely has a very impressive Cathedral, a regular street market on a Saturday, and is popular with people from a lot of different places. It rivals Doncaster in […] There are lots of people working hard, trying to preserve garden wildlife: feed the birds, build a ‘bug hotel’, make a gateway for hedgehogs. All very commendable. “If you see a hedgehog ,” they say “let us know all about it! Hedgehogs are becoming a rarity!” Not in my garden. With the warm, summer nights, […] |
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