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  • Been fined by ParkingEye (or any other parking overlord) for a 5-10 minute stay in a car park?

    ParkingEye – and indeed many other carpark cash generators – are wankers, and they’re infamous for sending extortionate fines to drivers who spent 5-10 minutes checking the parking terms, deciding against it (for whatever reason) and leaving immediately. In the UK the law says drivers have got 5 minutes grace after entering, sometimes extended to…

  • Bokashi bins + soil factory + wormery = homemade compost!

    I have a little garden space in front of the patio on my ground floor flat and the food bin for the whole block is annoyingly far away. Okay fine it’s only a one minute walk and I’m out there often enough with my regular bins. But I decided to look into composting my food…

  • Estate agents eh? Are any of them not lying, manipulative bastards?

    Get comfy, this is a really long one and it’s just me ranting so it’s not that edifying. Fair warning. A year ago I decided to finally put my savings to some use and stop paying other people’s mortgages. After 9 months I’ve finally completed and am cracking on with decorating. But let’s tell a…

  • About the TV Licence in the UK

    This post is actually just to immortalise the fact that on the night of the England – Argentina World Cup match, when I tuned into iPlayer without an active TV Licence to watch the one and only World Cup I’m actually interested in (rooting for England as a Scot, because the Argentina fans seem to…

  • Why do so many fucking idiots just sit in the middle lane on motorways?

    I learned to drive in 2019, in my early 40s. So in the grand scheme of things I’m not a super experienced driver for someone my age. And I’ve made some mistakes, oh boy. And I have to admit that the first few times I went on a motorway I didn’t actually know what the…