Pointless rant corner

Don't you just love it when a company backs up its products?

In early 2006 we had a new bathroom installed and it has been something of a disaster. The Italian shower tray (don't ask) arrived weeks late, was chipped and a year after installation the waste pipe broke off and flooded into the room below destroying the ceiling (although every cloud has a silver lining and now something much funkier has replaced the horrible plasterboard). The pop-up waste for the sink and bath never did pop up (do those things ever work?) The dual flush toilet only ever worked when the full flush was pressed and the cistern keeps over flowing. Also, the expensive designer radiator is useless and wouldn't warm up if we poured petrol over the thing and set fire to it.

To cap it all, a few weeks ago something deep within my Roper Rhodes bath tap broke leaving the shower/tap selector stuck on the shower setting.

R3UK Limited is eight years and one month old today!

Well, that is to say, the company was officially incorporated on 21st March 2001 although I had been doing some private wheeling and dealing for about two and half years prior to this.

These days the company is effectively dormant with the last invoice issued back in 2007. At the moment I'm waiting for the accountant to close the thing down for good - something I asked him to do last May and that he still hasn't gotten around to (he needed a couple more months he told me recently!) I wish he was this slow when it came to sending me his bill.

Time to look back at my stint of company ownership and get a bit misty-eyed about how things used to be....

Christmas huh?

Well thank phook that's over for another year.

It's no secret that the older you get the more of a pain in the trousers the whole thing actually is....

Well, it appears to be that time of year when, for some strange reason, we place the dying top two metres of a fir tree in one corner of the living room, string a hundred white LED lights around it and cover it in glittery tat.

It always seems to be a strange thing to do and I'm not entirely sure why it's done although there is a long winded Wikipedia article here that I can't be bothered to read fully, but it looks like there's a load of argument from various religious corners as to why a Christmas tree is wrong.

Religious people sure suck all the fun out of Christmas.