Holiday season, and I found myself on a tour up the West Coast to the far North West. Accommodation – B&Bs, guest houses and hotels – featured largely in the holiday plans and, for the first night, I wanted to treat the wife  to something a wee bit different.   Pete and I had visited the [...]

This is the new gizmo Amazon.com are so excited about.  It’s going to replace books, we’re told.  I’m not surprised they’re excited. First of all, it costs all of £200.  TWO HUNDRED POUNDS! You could buy a half decent book shelf, including the books, for that.  And then once you’ve forked out all that loot, you still don’t have [...]

This little beast and scores of his pals up and down the country generates an incredible £216million in revenue from fines every year.  A couple of weeks ago, I threw in my sixty quid’s worth by foolishly doing 40 in a 30 mile limit on a two lane road with nobody in sight.  Nobody, that [...]

On the day that it was announced that Salford’s traffic wardens would be equipped with cameras on their hats to record angry clients in action, we experienced our own traffic anger scenario. On arriving at 60Watt’s city centre offices, we were met with this sight. A random parking of a young female driver in not [...]