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Written by The Edge Editor
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
Question: Should this pair of twats have been drowned at birth?
Answer: Quite simply, no, because their mummy and daddy love them. But look, people, if we’re not part of the solution, then we must be part of the problem. Right?
And in The Edge’s humble opinion, everyone who has (a) never watched the X-Factor and/or (b) has voted for these two talentless twats must feel a certain sense of responsibility for, for....
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Written by The Edge Editor
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Thought I’d get my column written bright and early this month, so I’m sat here penning this article but 48 hours after returning from a week in Montenegro.....and talk about feeling down in the dumps.
Mind you, it was hardly the best holiday I’ve ever had (would I recommend you go to Budva? No, I would not. Not when Rovinj is just up the road in Croatia.) Even so, I’ve still got the holiday blues.
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Written by The Edge Editor
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
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Last year the SANTA FUN RUN raised a cool £47,000 for Farleigh Hospice from over 1,000 runners, and this year they’ll be at it again on Sunday 6th December in Central Park, Chelmsford, and on Sunday 13th December at Maldon Promenade.
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Written by Steve Ward
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Despite harbouring a fondness for what Pele described as ‘the beautiful game’, this column has not often dwelt too long on the subject, writes Steve Ward. Although a great many people share Pele's view, there are an equal number - and not all of them female - that can't see the point in grown men chasing a ball. Of course, if they are just chasing the ball, it's a fairly low level of football that's going on, but that's not the point.
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Written by Kingpin
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
This month I have mainly been learning all about the stresses and strains of modern life and coming up with the sort of ‘lifestyle plan’ that, if anyone else had suggested it to me, I would probably have given them a well deserved expletive-filled-mouthful, writes The Kingmeister.
Stress can be a really sneaky little bastard, particularly nowadays when we're all pretty much under its spell. I bet many of you were just like me in figuring that you got stressed every now and then, but a good few pints followed by a decent nights kip pretty much sorted it?
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Written by The Edge Editor
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Car Trouble
A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it just died on her.
After the fella has worked on it for a few minutes, it is once again idling smoothly.
"So, what's the story?" says the blonde.
"Just crap in the carburettor," says the mechanic. “Oh,” says the blonde, "that’s a new one on me. How often do I have to do that?"
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Written by Martin Catling
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
The foundations of any business are its finances and controls (bean counting). Even if you have employed the best bean counter in Essex, what are they serving up every month? Whatever your business, you must have accurate financial information to steer your company forward. There's no point waiting for your accountant to produce your accounts months after your financial year-end - it could all be too late by then. The current environment is tough and if you are making losses, you need to know NOW in order to identify the problems and set about fixing them.
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Written by The Grumpy Goose
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Whilst flipping TV channels, I saw a segment of a programme called ‘Brighton Beach Patrol’. Two police officers were in a multi-story car park dealing with the mess left by homeless drug users sleeping rough each night. One officer said to the other, "We never had this problem when the car park had an attendant. Now we don't have an attendant, we have this problem." The officer then said, "These needles are a real danger to the public; I don't know what could be done to solve this problem."
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Written by Fat Capitalist Pig
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Thank the Lord next year a General Election is due. At the very latest, in May 2010. Should we care? Even if we do, what difference will it make? Not very interested in the subject? Bored already? Well, perhaps you're right so far as statistics are concerned.
The startling fact is that the under 30's appear to be apathetic. Actually, this is a very peripheral interpretation.
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Written by Really Rather Em
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
I am not a fan of truisms, of sayings that smirk and chastise, but the one expression I utterly hate is ‘never judge a book by its cover’, writes Emily Breen. It's such a smug git of a thing to say, implying that we are something more than we appear to be; that one ought not to consider the surface of things, but to look deeper and longer.
Balls.
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Written by Cheryl Norton
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Two weeks before the wedding day, The Boyfriend had tonsillitis and I had sinusitis, writes Cheryl Norton. It's now a week to go until we get married and I'm typing this with a plaster cast on my right hand. In true cliché style, I broke my wrist on my hen weekend.
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Written by Tracie
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
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I've spent the whole month trying to declutter my life and It's not easy, I tell you. Everywhere I look, every cupboard I open, is full of crap that I’ve bought at some time or other, in the pursuit of happiness. Shoes that have never seen the light of day, clothes and make-up that screamed ‘Buy me! Buy me!’ when I first spotted them, all with the unwritten, unsaid promise that they would somehow transform my life.
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