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By John, on September 16th, 2007
The front page in today’s Observer:
‘Housing boom over’ as UK bank chaos grows
Britain’s house price growth will be halved next year as the global financial crisis exacerbates the impact of rising mortgage rates, according to Nationwide, the biggest mortgage lender.
After the dramatic bail-out of high street bank Northern Rock underlined the impact of the American ‘sub-prime’ mortgage crisis on Britain’s financial sector, Fionnuala Earley, Nationwide’s group economist, said she expected house price inflation to slow to around 3 per cent next year.
Continue reading Who is trying to pull the wool over our eyes?
By John, on September 10th, 2007
From the Manchester Evening News a couple of days ago: A VIOLENT thug attacking a shopkeeper never expected to come face-to-face with a superhero.
But as Gerard Smith went `berserk’ in a Manchester newsagents, passer-by Kevin Godin-Prior lifted his jumper to reveal a Spiderman costume and told him: “You don’t know who you’re dealing with.”…
By John, on June 15th, 2007
His latest installation at Glastonbury.
By John, on June 4th, 2007
Perfect hindsight is a wonderful thing – we really shouldn’t have sold our UK house when we moved to Germany in 1980! Thanks to the The Economist for pointing it out.
Update: At least we are considerably better off, than this family in Morocco, who don’t have anything to laugh . . . → Read More: British house prices
By John, on May 4th, 2007
We got back yesterday from visiting my mother in Devon. We had decided that since we’ve neither of us ever been to Cornwall (at least not that we remember!), that we should go that extra mile and visit the Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project while we were in the UK. . . . → Read More: Cornwall
By John, on March 29th, 2007
Sounds impossible, but at Airkix they have a vertical wind-tunnel, and offer an hour of indoor skydiving training which includes 2 “flights” for £40, or once you’ve got some experience you can skydive for £10 per minute. Sounds like it would be fun to try! (You generally have to weigh less than 114 Kg . . . → Read More: Go skydiving indoors
By John, on February 22nd, 2007
The BBC plans to launch an on-demand TV service which uses software that will only be available to Windows users. If you’re a British resident or a British citizen, you might consider adding your name to the online petition to Tony Blair.
By John, on January 24th, 2007
Julian Beever is a pretty amazing 3D pavement artist. Just take a look at some of his pictures here.
By John, on November 19th, 2006
A man in Manchester (UK) used his MP3 music player to hack into cash dispensers and capture details of customer’s credit cards and PINs, allowing him to steal Ł200,000 from them. He was only discovered after being stopped for making an illegal U-turn; police discoved a fake credit card in his car, which led . . . → Read More: MP3 player pays for itself; illegal U-turns don’t pay
By John, on September 3rd, 2006
Banksy, who no one can accuse of not having a sense of humour (remember this?), has updated Paris Hilton’s debute CD without her permission. The modified version features a topless picture of Paris with a dog’s head and tracks remixed by Banksy. I want one!
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