Archive | March 2009
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“How many sugars does the dog take”
After Madge and Irvin had emigrated to Australia they were joined by their daughter Karen and her family a few years later – Ned visited Madge and Irvin a couple of years ago and was enjoying a cold beer in the garden when Karen called with her dog, and the tale, or tail, unfolded. Some [...]
Hidden Coins
There’s an innocuous story in Yorkshires finest daily publication, right here, that describes the finding of a hoard of gold coins hidden in a jam jar. Its a very nice story with a nice ending but it deals only with a piffling amount of money when compared to the hoard that Irvin hid in his [...]
Video Saturday – Deep Purple
It had to be, I had no choice. You see the dear departed Chris held this band in the highest esteem ever possible for a band in the early seventies, I had The Faces, Chris had Deep Purple, thats just the way it is when you are 14 years old the shame is that you [...]
I have sold your underpants…
Some days ago, on the way back from a business trip, Ned asked me to call at the launderette near to the office as he had to pick up his underpants. Yes, he had no more underpants to wear at home for he had delivered the total stock of his underpant drawer to the launderette [...]
A Bad Day…
A big decision was taken at the board meeting yesterday with regard to the future of the business, more of that after 6th April, my job is safe, so no worries there then. But then late yesterday evening I took the call that we had all been expecting yet still pushing to the back of [...]
A Big Day
We travel to Birmingham today for a big event, more tomorrow, even I don’t know whats going to happen yet. It might be the last time I use petty cash for a coffee stop at Tamworth though…
The VIP Channel
So the man who owns the hotel in Barbados orders £12000 worth of electronic “swipe” card equipment from us and I’m asked to go to the hotel and spend a week there installing it all. I am very pleased. The stuff comes into stock and I ring him to ask how it is that he [...]
Snooker
We had a snooker table at home when I was a boy. A proper, real, snooker table. Three quarter size I admit, its not that we were posh or anything, just that our dad knew someone who knew someone else who had it before us and then decided that snooker wasn’t for him, and so [...]
For Sale – Passport
OK, OK, for the sake of those HM Customs officials who have made it thus far thanks to an over-active search engine and top secret government algorithm, my passport is not really for sale, OK? Metaphorically speaking it may as well be though, for I have absolutely no intention of using it to leave these [...]
Video Saturday – The Faces
Remember the days when your group were nobody’s if your drummer didn’t do a five minute self indulgent drum solo somewhere during the gig ? I used to love this stuff, in my geekiness I even remember the tv show that this was taken from, a “Sounds on Saturday” a half hour live performance from [...]
