I just stumbled across a cool website. http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk I often shop online for food so I looked into using this site. It allowed me to import all my favourites from my Tescos list, create a shopping list and then gave me several ways that I could swap the items in my trolly for similar items [...]

Wil’s Mum is selling her house and in the last couple of months she’s had a particular couple interested in it. They originally turned up to look around and brought their kids with them. Kids, Mum says, that were neither polite nor respectful of her home and belongings. She called Wil shortly after these people [...]

With an incubation period of 2-5 days I get the feeling it was the trip to the airport to drop the boy off that loaned the Swine Flu experience. Helped along by my physical exertion on the Sunday which left me wide open in the susceptibility stakes I have been knocked out with Swine Flu [...]

_MG_9511 Originally uploaded by davefranciosy.co.uk Sunday was great. Freshly minus one small blonde who’s buggered off to ‘summer’ in the States with his Pa, Wil and I did a 2 hour Moutain Bike Endurance race at Brandon County Park which was number 2 in a series of 3. I didn’t do the first one but [...]

Today is Cameron’s last day at Primary School and after the summer holiday in September he’ll go to High School.  He’s really pulled it out of the bag in the last couple of years at his lovely little primary school. He’s had a teacher he gets on well with and the school has had a [...]

I know a couple of you will have noticed I’ve switched to comment moderation. This is not permanent, it’s just that I had a completely insane keyboard warrior bombarding me with insults and childish crap in one of my posts, purely because of his inability to read it.

I’ve been trying not to get sweary. But I FUCKING hate health and safety wankers and everything they stand for. I’m sure at some point I’ll eat my words when someone points me out to be contradicting myself but you know, they take this crap too far. Apparently, to prevent Legionnaires Disease bacteria in our [...]

I read this post on Speak You’re Branes blog and it made me wonder where exactly the line is drawn between being a total racist and just wanting stricter regulations on immigration in your country. It seems that these days if you suggest you don’t like the copious amounts of foreigners pouring into the country [...]

I passed my motorcycle theory test this morning with a surprising score, 49/50 on the first part and 66/75 on the hazard perception.  I thought it was about to go bad again when I walked in and the woman asked for both parts of my licence. This time I produced the highly sought after photocard [...]