I’d like to dedicate this post to Dennis Creasey, a service engineer of note that I once employed for 15 years or so. He hasn’t died or anything, or at least I don’t think he’s died since he retired six years ago, now you come to mention it he may have died and not told [...]

Remember Dennis ? Dennis the tourettes service engineer that worked for us for several years ? Actually, maybe you don’t, I’ve just checked, all of the Dennis the tourettes service engineer who worked for us stuff was on the old blog, maybe I’ll have to ressurect him this week, we’ll have a Dennis the tourettes [...]

The 1980s saw a move away from the traditional stand-up TV comedian, and about time too, and the emergence of the story-teller comedian, illustrated perfectly by John Sparkes as Siadwell from the BBC Scotland excellent “Naked Video” series. The idea of a bloke in a suit smoking a cigar. leaning on a mic stand and [...]

So early in 1972, and having been influenced by the fact that Rod Stewart seemed to include at least one Dylan folk track on his solo LP’s, I picked up our mothers Brian Mills mail order catalogue and therein espied Bob Dylans “Greatest Hits Vol II”. Twenty weeks at thirty new pee seemed like some [...]

A deliberately short post today. No, its got nothing to do with Michael Jackson, I was never a fan and am dreading the Diana-style outpouring of grief that is going to be thrust upon us in the next week or so, probably from the same people that were screaming “paedophile” a few years ago… Anyway…

Yesterdays post about my mates dad’s sweet shop reminded me of something else that used to happen in the shop on a regular basis. People used to come into the small, very well stocked shop to have epileptic attacks on the floor and during the general thrashing around would tend to ruin several floor displays [...]

When I was 11 years old something remarkable happened shortly after I’d started at high school. One of the boys in my class came to me one day and asked me where I lived, when I told him he mentioned that he was moving to my neighbourhood the following week and did I know of [...]

In just 24 days we set off into the blue yonder, on bicycles, some of us may not return. Yes, its that dramatic. You think I’m kidding, the last time we had a lads jolly, one of the party had a heart attack, and that was just a golf weekend – he’s not coming on [...]

Of all of the places we visited during our Brittany trip, this was the strangest. This sketch was done in the evening after we had visited the chateau, mainly because the tours around the place were guided, you weren’t left alone by the guide, and you didn’t get long to stand around and admire this [...]