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House Signs Made From Slate

Came across a nice site last night which sells House Signs made out of slate or natural stone.

After my latest episode which involved a FIAT Punto, a verry sorry old dear, and a broken house sign, I have decided this time to get a nice Slate House Sign and bed it in to the verge.

Next time some old dear decides she would like to park her Punto on top of my sign, hopefully it will do more damage to her car than it does to the sign.

House Signs

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Waffling No Comments

Comments on the London Olympics Logo

Negative Comments on the London Olympics Logo

  • I think its utterly hiddeous. Angular, disjointed, garish, a complete waste of money but, at least in that aspect it does represent the London Olympics! I think it should be withdrawn immediately and Seb Coe should be personally asked to reimburse the public purse the £400,000 he decided to flush down the toilet on the design before he is summarily dismissed as organiser of the games and replaced by someone with more common sense.
  • Absolute rubbish!!! Why is it that the only good thing Britain can do is waste money? Anyway, why is it London 2012, what about the rest of the country or doesn’t anything exist outside London?
    S Davis
    Leeds
  • It’s an Art Director on drugs. I guess the price is also designed to reflect the “worth” of the strange design. My bid for the logo would be in the $3 range and then I would burn it. But I would keep the outrageous verbage that “justifies” the design. Absolute lunacy.
    G. Jones
  • If my dog left something like this on the sidewalk, I’d be arrested.
    Troy Davis
    New York
  • Londoners may be unaware of the huge disappointment felt here in Paris when we failed to win the Olympic bid. The silence in the streets of Paris after the announcement was made was deafening. Never known for being good sports about losing, the leg-slapping hilarity on the unveiling of the logo had to be heard to be believed. Consensus is it looks like a smashed swastika & subliminaly evokes the tragic London bombings the day after the bid won. What on Earth was Wolf Olins thinking?
  • its actually more like 4 and a half pigs ears – no doubt produced by a committee of do-gooding, PC, totally out of touch with reality types. scrap it now and get London teenagers to submit their designs within the next 15 days, then get the public to pick the winner on a website over the following 15 days, which will provide a very good logo at very low cost before the end of july. AND seek reimbursement from the original ‘designers’ of the pigs ears !
    Paul
  • As one who suffers from migraines, these flickering images are sure to give me one. The person who designed/approved this deserves to be afflicted with one that never ends.
  • No doubt this will have been commented on at length but it needs to be said again and again. Anyone with a basic understanding of English grammar will be well aware that names have capital letters, spelling London as ‘london’ in the 2012 logo is quite blatantly wrong. There can be no serious justification for this. I can well imagine that its originators perceive it as ‘youthful’ and modern but it isn’t, it’s just illiterate. The trend for writing names without capital letters comes from writing text messages where it is irritating to have to switch modes for the capital names and it is therefore much easier to write the entire message in lower case. However, this clearly isn’t justified when trying to advertise London’s 2012 Olympic and everyone is very aware of that. Frankly, it’s just embarrassing that in trying to advertise London as THE city of the world the chosen advertising team didn’t realise that basic literacy was a requirement. Now, most people will look at the logo and think “Hm, it’s pink and why have they spelt London as london? Don’t they know how to use grammar?” . Brilliant, no doubt by advertising our lack of grammatical ability combined with a logo that was drawn by a 5 year old our Olympics will become highly regarded and eagerly anticipated by the world…
    Jan Bartscht
  • The new Olympic 2012 logo is absolutely ghastly and massively disappointing. I was really thrilled when London was awarded the Games but now feel totally deflated by this formless and uninspiring mess. Please, please change it to a design we can feel proud of. More public consultation before the design was launched might have been advisable, and how it could have cost so much to produce beggars belief.
  • I’m astonished. Of all the talent around London agencies and we come up with this. British designers have been immensely proud and universally recognised of their achievements of the last 30 years. This will do British design no good at all. I’m sure there has been enormous amounts of hot air spoken in board rooms about the rationale about the logo – but this is a mess, with no visual centre, confused, illegible and a missed opportunity. It’s not too late to change it, we can’t let the Olympic brand be cheapened with this disaster.
  • A meaningless visual mess that conveys no sensible message. Give an average 3 year old a pencil and save yourself £400.000 as he or she would be happy with a tube of smarties.
  • My grandchildren could have produced a better image. It amazes me that these overpaid “Plonkers” can produce such rubbish NO it will not grow on me , I attended the 1948 Olympics and there were no problems with Logos , the 1948 logo was GREAT.Simple and to the point ! Now everything has to be so complicated, just to keep some overpaid “Plonkers” in a job. I despair in this modern day world. Seb Coe cannot justify this Logo in in any way !
    Jack Gilbert
  • The late Professor C.E.M. Joad once observed that “A committee of wise men equals one idiot”. In consideration of the presentation of what appears to be shattered pink glass and at a cost of £400,000, surely proves the point.
  • 2012 Logo is utter and absolute rubbish. How can they justify the cost of £400.000? I would like to see their account published, so the public can see how they came across this vast amount. The Logo is dreadful NOT easy on the eye. Even though the vast majority are displeased. Why on earth should we have this Logo THRUST upon us. How come the public were not given a chance to choose a Logo?
    Margie Downes
  • The characterisation of the cipher ‘2′ … there were some troops in the not too distant past who wore a pair of “2’s” like these on their collars, but they were “S’s” really!!! What planet do(es) the designer(s) live on?
  • It does not suit the standard London are measured with in sports arena, we have pass the generation when the logo can be applied
  • Four hundred thousand pounds for this piece of total and utter garbage! They would have been better advised to present the project to any class of art students who would undoubtedly have come up with something far better and for free. What we have been lumbered with is a waste of money of criminal proportions and the perpetrators of this con should face court action, accused of misuse of public funds or taking money through false pretences.
    Norman Wilkins
  • am French and I was really disappointed when Paris lost the Olympic Games. But I thought that Britain and London were great enough to organize memorable Games. But now I see the logo that has been chosen, I am astonished. How can this happen that any committee has chosen this one??? It is so flashy that it becomes aggressive; it is so formless and meaningless that I can’t explain how a designer comes to this with £400.000! I hardly regret that this is this kind of image people will get of London and Britain…
    Mélanie
  • It’s utter shite! A bunch of art students could have done a better job in exchange for a few drinks in the uni bar!
    Paul G Hanmore
  • This the Emperor’s new clothes of logos.
    I get the impression that though it is apparently praised in the design community, this could be because no-one has the guts to point out that it is a heaving pile of toss. The colours are just quite simply awful, it isn’t the design so much, though it does look like Lisa Simpson giving head, but it just grates on the eye. If I’m being kind I think that maybe it was designed to be completely shit so that more attention would be focussed on The Games, because surely no-one in their right mind would pay £400,000.00 for this (On that note was the £400,000.00 for the animated advert as well because if it is then that is not so bad). The logo of a sports event has never bothered me but seriously, do they just think that the public will be cowed into thinking that they are such ignorant philistines and will just accept the wisdom of their “betters”? “Betters” who are simply nothing more than vastly over-paid marketing executive wastes of space with alcohol and drug problems. At least I can take solace in the highly likely scenario that most of that money has been snorted off the cistern of a toilet in a west end bar somewhere and disappeared up their noses. What an unbelievable waste of cash.
    A disgrace.
    Sam Bellani

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    Possitive Comments on the London Olympics Logo

    • I like the prety colors
      Lucy B
      (aged 4)
    • The design and the structure represent the awakening of a sleeping giant, it is cutting edge yet strangely old fashioned, the painstaking work that has gone into this must not be underestimated and one needs to view the logo through the eyes of a new born child to appreciate the full complexities. I truly believe this will become a major iconic feature of the 21st century, will influence a new generation of artists/designers and will encourage many more children to take an active part in sport and the community.
      S Coo,
      Surrey
    Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Waffling No Comments

    Dominoes Results – Top of the Hill Dominoes League Banbury

    The first week of the Top of the Hill Dominoes League which consists of local pubs from villages to the west of Banbury (Oxfordshire), started on 10th September 2009.

    The George at Brailes came from behind to gain a close victory over arch rivals The Brailes Boys.

    The first round finished all even at 2 games each, but the boys went 5 – 3 up after round 2 after winning the round 3- 1. The following round was again tied at 2-2 leaving the Boys needing just one game in the final leg for a draw or 2 for the win.

    Undaunted by the fact they had to win all 4 games to take maximum points the George Hotel started strongly when T Simmonds and D Knight finished strongly to take the first game, this was soon followed by another victory for the George by A Evans and J Mills which leveled the match up again.

    The tension was growing as the end drew nearer but R Hibberd and S Anon kept their heads to take The George in to an unassailable lead 8 – 7 leaving Team captain F Evans and old stalwart K Hinds with the responsibility of closing the match out.

    They didn’t disappoint the home team supporters and easily won their game to give The George Hotel a narrow 9 7 victory which takes them to the top of the league.

    Commenting after the match, George Hotel team captain, F Evans, said

    “It was a great result for us, it’s always nice to get one over the Boys, they have always been our bogey team”

    Next week The George Hotel take a short trip up the B4035 to take on last years league champions, The Lampet Arms, Upper Tadmarton, in what looks on paper to be an equally tight game.

    Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Waffling No Comments

    Wine Coolers – This years must have appliance

    Despite the bleak economic predictions it looks like this years must have home appliances are likely to be Wine Coolers.

    We’re not just talking about small every day wine coolers here, we’re talking luxury wine cabinets.

    Wine cabinets come in a wide range and offer options of; single temperature, three temperature or multi temperature. They also range from small under worktop units to superbly styled cabinets that don’t look out of place in any dining room.

    Designed for long term wine storage, the three temperature and multi temperature wine cabinets also have compartments that store both red and white wines at perfect serving temperatures.

    Monday, September 7th, 2009 Waffling No Comments

    Upholsterers in Nottinghamshire

    Set up a listing in my main directory site tonight for Upholsterers in Nottingham which bought back memories of when I was still living in Aldington.

    I helped the next door neighbour convert one of their old outbuildings in to work studio where she would re-upholster old furniture.

    Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Waffling No Comments

    Christmas Puddings Contaminated

    A range of special 2008 Christmas puddings have been pulled from the shelves amid fears of contamination!

    The unbranded Christmas Puddings are said to be contaminated with higher than average levels of cupronickel, an alloy of copper and nickel.

    Consumers are being asked to be careful when buying Christmas puddings and to report any suspicions  that they have bought Christmas Puddings contaminated with any substance.

    Contaminated Christmas puddings are 2nd only to poorly defrosted turkeys which are the number 1 cause of tummy bugs over the festive holiday.

    Monday, December 8th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    Top 10 Christmas Movies of all Time

    Below is my list of top 10 christmas movies of all time.
    Not necessarily Christmas related, but they are the films I like to associate with Christmas and the ones I like to watch at least every 3rd Christmas.

    (no particular order)

    1. It’s a wonderful life
    2. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
    3. The Great Escape
    4. Whistle down the wind
    5. Santa Clause (The movie)
    6. Holiday Inn
    7. Miracle on 34th Street
    8. Wizard of Ozz
    9. Charlie and the chocolate Factory
    10. Die Hard
    Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    Kermodian

    Kermodian comes from the word Kermode \ker-mo-duh\, verb: To waffle on about latest movies, Mad rant based on crazy opinion that may not be true.

    Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    Total Butler Oil

    If you will soon be ordering your central heating oil from Total Butler first have a read of what happened when I phoned up to order ours.

    Total Butler Oil

    A one minute phone called saved me £90.00 but soon made me realise it has probably cost me over £1,000.00 in the past 10 years.

    Full story can be found by Clicking Here

    To comment on this post please  Click Here
     

    Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Waffling 15 Comments

    Everytime

    Gets to me everytime.

    Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    Backing up

    Switched on my PC yesterday, got to the Windows start screen, then nothing else. I managed to start via safe mode, adjusted a few settings but still no joy.

    This got me thinking about backing up, something I have been a bit lapse about recently. I spent a few hours sorting out my important folders and transfering  them to some spare webspace, to my laptop, and to a spare PC I use for storage.

    In a way, I am glad this PC started playing up, it gave me a reminder about backing up and at least gave me a warning rather than just dieing on me.

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    Earthquake Market Rasen Lincolnshire UK

    Did the earth move for you?

    Most powerful Earthquake hits the UK in 25 years.

    Britain wakes to tremors

    Podline

    Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    Jobs in Scotland ScottishCareers4U.com

    I was contacted over the weekend by a Scottish Recruitment Website who were trying to improve their online presence and make people aware of their Scottish Jobs Search facility.

    Their website is relatively new but already appears to be quite popular and has had in excess of 10,000 visitors in it’s first few months of being online.

    It is easy to see why it has become so popular so quickly as it has a nice crisp clear look to the site, the backend system works seamlessly, and it already has a number of major Scottish employers signed up on it’s books.

    Scottish jobseekers are registering on a daily basis and many are making use of the new jobs by email service ScottishCareers4U provides.

    Scottish Jobs

    Monday, February 25th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    Are Twitter users twits

    Went and had a look at Twitter this evening with the view to joining to find out what it is all about. First thing I did was check the TOS and read number

    3. You are responsible for keeping your password secure.

    Nothing unusual in this, I’m pretty sure Gmail, Yahoo and all others say the same.

    So why after signing up are we then taken to a screen asking for our web based email addresses; gmail, yahoo, aol etc. and also asked for the passwords?

    I wonder how many twitters provided this information and probably broke the TOS of their web based email provider by ding so?

    Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Waffling No Comments

    New online advertising opportunity

    The UK Small Business Directory today announced a fantastic new online advertising opportunity which allows business registered to display samples of products/services they provide, and also allows them to display latest news and customer testimonials.

    A demonstration listing has been set up for a company that supplies portable wheelchair ramps and has been met with favourable comments.

    Each business registered receives up to 3 pages and can display up to 3 products, all pages are linked together and also provide links back to the clients website. The pages are designed to be search engine friendly and no coding knowledge is required to create company listings.

    Additional features are also available on request, as is a complete search engine optimisation service.

    Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Waffling No Comments
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