I’ve always preferred houses with a bit of character, and looked with horror on the estates of cookie-cutter housing that sprung up in the ’70s. They used to look like LEGO houses to me. (Though I notice the LEGO minifigs are comfortably-off these days.)
What with the country being full and all, not everyone can live [...]

When we got the fiesta, and fixed the alerntator and replaced the battery and changed the sump and replaced the starter and got the ignition key barrel replaced and got the brake unseized, it worked perfectly apart from the stereo. Most of the time the left speaker didn’t work, and the CD player didn’t work [...]

This site expresses my opinion nicely regarding the current financial situation. It’s pretty much as applicable here as it is in the USA. I’ve reproduced the message here only because their layout is distracting.
…A bailout requires responsible Americans to pay for the acts of greedy bankers, mortgage brokers, flippers, and over-extended home-borrowers. [...]

If you wondered how to get that perfect city-destroying robot walk going on:

Do a lindy-hop class Friday night
Walk around town all day Saturday then practice salsa for 3 hours
Walk around a garden centre and supermarket Sunday morning,
garden all Sunday afo, and then
dance for 4 hours on Sunday night.

If you can still move your legs after [...]

I did all sorts of dancing as a kid. Then I quit, then I took up salsa aged 28. The one regret is that I quit Tap. Tap as taught to 7 year old kids is rubbish. But there are some great forms of it; e.g.
Mountain Clogging, or

To turn off sticky keys and the shortcuts, download and run this registry patch.
/edit: I just tried this on a fresh XP install and it didn’t work.  I’m guessing I needed a reboot for it to take effect.

My heart is a Comet (or a Jack Russell)
Burning cold in a vacuum (barking at passers-by)
Visible to the naked eye
Bent by gravity (or a need to mark territory)
It visits, orbits, sniffs planets and lamp posts.

Having driven the 10,000,000,000 miles to Norfolk at 0.000002 MPH, I was not going to go home again without having visited the Under The Pier Show at Southwold (Suffolk). It were great. And Southwold’s surprisingly genteel too. On the August Bank Holiday, parking and pub food were both hard to come by [...]

On the same shelf in Morrissons:
And a “special” offer from Barratts:

No matter what a Celebrity Chef might advise, don’t eat stuff with “bane” in the name. That goes also for:

deadly nightshade
poison ivy
black-eyed susan
bleeding heart

There are subtle clues about these plants.