I haven’t mentioned it much but we, as a family, are working into property development at the moment. After months of insanity trying to sort out the ownership of a piece of land and release the funds, we’ve finally broken ground on our first property development. The foundations are going in as we speak… incidentally […]
Recently I had a run-in, or a dispute, with a commenter named El on Gates of Vienna over certain issues. Now if you’ve known me any length of time you’ll know that I get a little florid in my oratory. El doesn’t provide an e-mail address in his profile or I would have done this […]
Just a little amusing note. My wife, the beautiful Christina, has won the Numby Award for “Neologism of the Year” after coming up with this little number for Mr Brignell:
Acairasthenephobia, Ah-kai-ras-then-eh-phobia, n, a fear of falling ill out of hours (Gr negative prefix A; cairo (or kairós) - right time; asthenes - ill; and […]
What better way to start the new year than with a drink? Well, I got myself good and toasted over the break and my liver isn’t thanking me, but I’ve decided to take advantae of an opportune sale in the local big-name supermarket to get my hands on something that I think is a little […]
Recent posts may have given you the impression that this blog is mainly about my (admittedly limited) participation in the so-called counter-jihad, the effort to try and rescue western civilisation from itself. Oooh, portentious… truth is that’s just part of my focus, and at the moment have a lot of things on my mind that, […]
Julmust! Julmust! IKEA actually had some in! Christmas is now going to be complete…
If you don’t know, Julmust is a drink that they consume in Sweden, in large quantities, over christmas. Not even Coca Cola can compete with t; they don’t even try now. I’m not entirely sure what’s in it, though the ingredients list […]
I’ve decided to put this under spiritual stuff as well as general, because… hey, it’s a spirit. Besides…
No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach - 1 Timothy 5:23
Alcohol played a large part in the life of the early church and, protestations of certain denominations and other […]
Of all men’s miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing. – Herodotus
Perhaps this is why so many are so eager to jump on any movement that gives them the illusion of control over their lives…
I’ve found strange things in the past, but none stranger - to my uneducated brain, at least - than the idea of Welsh single malt whisky. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a keen whisky drinker, and these days I’m even able to tell some of the subtler malts apart to boot. Which is […]
Y’know, it’s not fun being poor. I was poor as a kid and didn’t particularly enjoy it, and neither did the rest of the family considering we spent most of our time living on beans on toast. It would appear that, right now, I’m out of money again, though fortunately I don’t have to resort […]
