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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Tax people
Sitting on my desk just now I have two pieces of mail from the Tax Office; they know who I work for, the have my name slightly wrong, and the National Insurance number they cite is completely off the wall.
That hasn’t stopped them telling me to ’send the letter back’ to them as if there [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Rah Rah Rah
So, Friday the GP told me I did have rheumatoid arthritis after all … after a practice nurse told me over the phone my blood test had been negative for the rheumatoid factor (RhF) antibody. In fact I have a high RhF measure. My appointment with a consultant rheumatologist should be dropping through the letterbox [...]
Grodon Brown, Chancellor
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he understands people’s fears over the economy and insisted that keeping it on track was his “sole focus”
Brown says economy is sole focus
Sole focus, eh? Well perhaps he should resume his job as Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Lorraine Motel
A while back I visited the Lorraine motel, Memphis, where Martin Luther King was assassinated.
The Lorraine Motel, Memphis
The motel was bought in 1982 by the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation to house the excellent National Civil Rights Museum. Inside the motel/museum, most of the rooms have been knocked through for exhibition space but [...]