grumpyf1

"Knock knock" - "Who's there... AAAARGH!" If you’re off to Liverpool any time soon, and were thinking of bagging yourself a budget overnight stay in a hotel, you might want to check they’re open. And not wide open. An almost-completed new Travelodge in the city is a bit more open plan than intended after an irate digger driver trashed the reception area with his machinery this week, leaving the place notably more light and airy than was intended... and very badly damaged. It appears that the aggrieved digger operator was taking his revenge on a sub-contractor of the construction firm for £600 he claimed he was owed. I suspect that this impetuous course of action will wind up costing the disgruntled digger dude notably more than that, although he is to be commended for some skillful driving – he had to get the mini-machine up the steps of the building before quite literally breaking, entering, then breaking some more. He took his time over it too. One w...

I was contemplating the lack of comments on any of my North West Evening Mail newspaper columns on their website at lunchtime the other day, and noticed that fellow columnist, Tim Farron (local MP and President of the Liberal Democrats), was similarly afflicted. Commenting on this on twitter elicited a response from the man himself: Considering it was the not insignificant day of local and European elections in the UK, I thought it was jolly decent of him to reply. We had an even more bizarre exchange around Christmas time, which was something to do with Santa using cloaking technology to avoid radar detection. And they say politicians are all aloof and boring...