Money Worrys

In these unprecedented days of deep recession, with redundancy looming in even the most secure of companies, money has been in everyones thoughts recently…

RHQM – landlord of the Kings Arms – was certainly thinking about money yesterday, when he cut short his visit to the newsagents to ensure that Fanackapans record bar tab was cleared.

We did have video footage of the complex transaction taking place.  However, unfortunately, it has been lost to the ether. Never mind though – we’ll get it next month!

The Lotto Bingo game run by the Kings Arms has run for a record number of weeks this time round, with the jackpot up to over £1200. Which sounds good, until you realise that there is a large proportion of the players waiting for just one number, so it is likely that if won this week, it will be shared amongst many.  I personally am waiting for 2 numbers, and with my luck running as it is I’m not holding my breath.

In other news, it appears that a mini war of attrition has broken out between Dribbly and the ‘Bunmaker’ (aka ‘Bakerboy’)…

Apparently, in response to a comment by Dribbly that he appears to get ‘very merry’ quite early on in the evening, Bakerboy pointed out that he considered Dribbly to be a drain on the NHS with his poorly foot.  Dribbly retorted that ‘he wouldn’t be taking any criticism from the village Bunmaker, and he should shut his face’.  I predict hairpulling and indian burns in the near future!

So life goes on.  The hosting package I use to host Old Heatonian and other sites which I administer has been moved to a brand new machine somewhere in a datacentre in London.  The move didn’t go quite as smoothly as I would have hoped, which accounts for the recent downtime on this site.  But everything seems to be okay now (fingers crossed!)