Plastic plastic everywhere!

I know I have written about this before, but its starting to really piss me off! Everywhere I look along the hedgerows, trees and roadsides there is plastic and rubbish! Does no one give a shit anymore? It really does look scruffy and something needs to be done. Why don’t we get all the prisoners [...]

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Brown water in Santon!

We are experiencing brown water in Santon at the moment! Tried to contact the Isle of Man Water Authority via their emergency phone number and it just cuts you off! Not very good when you want to bath your four day old son and two year old daugther! Typical government statutory board with a set [...]

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Sea Internet cable – the real world wide web

I Stumbledupon a great picture of the cables that are laid around the planet that connect us all to the world wide web. What it really highlights is the main hubs, the size of the cable in areas along the seabed and the amount of bandwidth available and the capacity. It also shows how potentially [...]

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Longtaletv.com Isle of Man – I love it!

I joined a new group on Facebook this week for longtaletv.com. After reading a bout the new group I went on to website to see what all the fuss was about. I have to say I was well impressed with the site, pitching themselves as providing the news that matters from the Isle of Man’s [...]

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Minister for doom and gloom – Isle of Man

I was sad to recently hear that the Manx Electric Railway will be closed between Laxey to Ramsey after a report to the Minister for Tourism and Leisure highlighted some disrepair to the line and the track. To which the minister took the decision to stop the service based on safety grounds. I later read [...]

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How can a business afford to be so inefficient?

One thing that I just can’t understand is how a business can set a team of staff a project undertaking several months of work and many many hours of research and analysis. But all along the decision has already been taken on the particular route the business is to take regardless of the detail and [...]

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Mothers Day!

Don’t get me wrong I am all for Mothers day, but today’s commercial emphasis begs belief. We have cards from daughter and son, granchild. To Grandma, Granny and Gran, even ‘to my sister on mothers day, ‘to my wife’, ‘step mum’, ‘cousin’, even cards from the pets on mothers day and I nearly forgot ‘To [...]

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Lack of posts due to lergy!

I haven’t written a single post in week due to the fact I have had some form of the lergy! Hot sweats, cold shivers and feeling generally washed out has meant that the blog has had to take a back seat. Hopefully I will be right as rain soon and back to regular posts.

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