Stunted Development

 Humanity can be a strange breed ......

Ron Should Have Googled Loch Ness

 .... We often get  the urge to do and think strange things, and disconnect our cognitive processes and reasoning abilities.

Taxing The Walking Dead

The UK is fast heading towards taxing the state Retirement Pension ....

Robbed By Labour For Not Working Anymore

 .... how disgraceful is that for any society, let alone a Western democracy?

Frittering Away The Family Fortune

Inheriting great wealth can prove to be more than a mixed blessing as we have seen before .....

Henry Cyril Paget, Fifth Marquis of Anglesey

For instance at just aged 23, Henry Cyril Paget (1875-1905) - nicknamed 'Toppy', became Fifth Marquis of Anglesey, and inherited an estate providing an annual income of £110,000 (equivalent to £13 million per year in 2023). The estate of about 30,000 acres, may have been worth £200 million at today's values.

Old Lemon

An old 19th century chest was scheduled for sale at auction in Newport, Shropshire, England in late 2023 ......

Old Lemon Sold By Auction

 ..... so to that end, the chest was being photographed.

The Weeping Woman Weeps No More

In Mexican folklore La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) .....

Practical Joke Goes Bad

...... is a ghost of a young woman who weeps for her two children who she drowned in revenge after her husband was seen with another young woman.