Urban Journal

Seasonal energy usage

It seems so far away now the snow the wind - yet it was only a few months ago. See here for a description of snow at Enigin in Cornwall.

Snow and rain might seem harsh, especially when in comes in excess. Look at the tsunamis and all the destruction they can bring about. Buildings falling down into mud slides and all sorts of mishaps can come about with too much of a good thing.

Suppose its where your More

Survival of the Most Creative

The current economic client for most of the world is frightening to say the least. Half the planet is out of work for the first time ever and the rest are on their way. While there have been some minor improvements there does not seem to be a major change in the near future. If you are currently looking for a way to make it through the difficult and complicated times of our nations and keep yourself from loosing what More

I hate it when my computer crashes!

I’m just having a browse on the computer, reading the latest news (no I can’t be bothered to go out and buy The Times, or even grab a copy of the Evening Standard for zippo) or checking my email when all of a sudden, the computer crashes. All hell breaks loose as I’m hitting on the keys of the keyboard and tapping the mouse furiously to return it back to its normal form.

I may be no computer expert, but More

Flipping People, Honestly

Sayings really get on my nerves sometimes. I mean, I know all countries have them and they’re just part of culture and all that (like the yellow bum bag in Germany), but seriously, would it hurt those who invented them to have given it a little bit of thought first before they opened their big fat mouths?

There are many ridiculous sayings out there, but one I have grown to love to mock has to be “it’s all smoke and More

Cut It Out

I had a dream last night. It was blissful. The dream was about a brand-new show called Z List Celebrities Dancing On Thin Ice. The particular part of the dream that made me all happy was the bit where Dean Gaffney (Eastenders’ ‘Robbie’) was gliding along fine one minute, all ugly smile and ugly everything, and the next he was plunging through thin ice in to freezing cold waters below. How wonderful that dream was! Only it was a More

All In The Details

Here’s one way of putting it: say you’re really terrible at making tea. I mean truly stupendously awful. I mean that it doesn’t matter how hard you try, or what technique you use, the tea just never tastes good. In fact, this isn’t even something that concerns you a great deal anymore: you have accepted your failures as a rubbish tea-making human being and that’s that. But here’s the thing, all your anxiety returns to get you when you take More

Proceed With Caution

I had an interesting debate with my Grandmother today, and it wasn’t about her pigmented lesions for once, which made a change. The debate was about free-running. It had come about because free-running was on the TV and so there we’d sat, for a full ten minutes, staring at the impossible feats of these high-achieving young men.

Then Gran said, “They must be on drugs!”

After stifling the urge to laugh I said, calmly, “No nan, they aren’t on drugs. More

Bad Toast

Just off the top of my head I can list these great feats of human beings: 1) Cars are not bad as are planes. 2) Lorries—without them you’d have nobody to cut you up when you drove down the motor-way. 3) Butterfly collecting: you have to admit that even if you don’t like butterflies then you have to appreciate that someone actually caught them, which is impressive in itself considering that butterlfies are probably the hardest to catch thing ever More

Lengthy

I should say from the off-set that this article is directed at men, sorry girls, and now for a Warning: if you are the kind of man who diligently gets his hair cut, winces at the thought of skin care treatments and can’t bear to feel the crushing blow of ones hair against ones face then this may grate a little; I have long hair and I also have a penis. Yes, I am a man with long hair and More

Throw, Throw, NOW

Throwing a ball, or anything for that matter, should be the easiest and most natural thing a human-being could ever do aside from breathing, eating, and anything else ending in ing, right? Wrong. Sadly, throwing stuff doesn’t get the respect it deserves (it’s a lot like Botox Cheshire, in that way)! Many unthinking and deeply embarrasing people persistently choose to make a mockery of this age old and sacred act. And by doing so they set an example More