General Interest

Whatever crossed my time on the day, usually general muttering and rebelliousness over shady pricing by big companies, but also grammar, humour (100 funny insurance quotes is popular), and more

Immigration, hospital waiting lists and patient health

Immigration, hospital waiting lists and patient health Labour – and the Tories before them – will tell you they are building 40 new hospitals, that waiting times are down, that it all going fantastically. They are lying. They think we are all gullible, stupid. In the last 30 years – since Blair and mass migration […]

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June Slater on Boomers

Boomers! This was a Facebook post by June Slater on Boomers. I’ve seen similar before, several times, thought the same many times, probably wrote about it a couple of times, but this time it struck a chord. Or maybe, as I get older, reminded me of all we’d lost in the race to gain! What

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Thats how it was, by Sheila White

That’s How It Was

That’s How It Was, by Sheila White A heart warming story of a great love that blossomed during the difficult times of the last war. Sheila (my gran) met her husband to be, Chalky, on a dull day, a day that changed her life. This is a remarkable account of two people’s lives with all

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Guest Blogging in 2024-2025

Guest Blogging in 2024-2025 Preface I get a lot of offers of guest posts for Ackadia and decided to re-examine the market. Ackadia is old, ancient in Internet terms, so does tend to attract a certain amount of interest. It used to have a pagerank of 7+ (~ DA70) but I let it slide. Still,

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Amazon and porch piracy

Porch pirates

Porch pirates in the UK Dear Amazon, If your driver just dumps the package in the drive where anyone walking past can steal it, it’s not bloody well delivered. This is hardly the first time this has happened, but it’s getting annoying now. We were all in, they didn’t knock, they just left it in

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