Archive for December, 2006

£20 billion!

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Tony Blair has announced that replacing our fleet of nuclear submarines will cost £20 billion. Here are some most likely useless facts concerning the number 20 billion (20,000,000,000).

If shared out amongst the entire world population, we would each receive £3.05 to the nearest penny.
The system is costing £330.90 (+VAT@17.5%) to every single man, woman and […]

Tring Museum

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

The Department For Culture, Media and Sport released a press release on 1st December which reveals the Zoological Museum in Tring is the third least popular government sponsored national museum, receiving roughly 114,000 visitors each year. This puts it just ahead of Geffrye Museum in London and Sir John Soane’s Museum, also in London. Our […]

Advent Is Upon Us

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

I suppose I should welcome you all to December, and be happy that the Christmas Cola ads have started. Unfortunately they have taken out the classic “Holidays Are Coming” music, so I will need to find a new marker of the festive period.
I have one random fact for you today: in the UK a speed […]