Archive | September 2009
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My brave sports injury
I have a sports injury. I know, unbelievable isn’t it, I can hardly believe it myself. Me, a sports injury, who would have thunk it ? All these years, 53 of them actually without a broken bone to my name and nary even a sprain, 53 years of slovenly behaviour, all those years when my [...]
“…and every week you build another piece…”
The RMS Titanic was built at Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyard between 31st March 1909 and 31st May 1911… “You too can build your own RMS Titanic with this weekly magazine entitled “Build Your Own RMS Titanic”” And so you dash out to the newsagents to buy “Build Your Own RMS Titanic” episode one complete [...]
The Company IT Geek
Its like this you see, our company sells software, and hardware, but mainly software specialising in a specialist business application, no more clues. And because we deal with some rather large corporates as well as thousands of smaller businesses, we are often involved with installing our software onto company servers and suchlike and in doing [...]
“It Wasn’t Like That In My Day”…part XVII
This news report caught my eye the other day, or more specifically caught my ear as I was driving at the time and it was broadcast on the radio, marvellous invention car radios, every car should have one, oh, they do ? Its the story of a school in Wales who’s National Teaching Council have [...]
Video Saturday – Ronnie Lane
Ah Ronnie Lane, what can I say about Ronnie Lane ? I have three of his albums for one (I think he only made three), I went to see him twice at Leeds Poly (I think he only toured twice, properly anyway), and I shared a beer with him one night… Bass player with The [...]
Things I could have done
Some of the things that I nearly did, turning points where things could have been oh so different, a fork in the road of your lifeplan, the day when you make a decision to go left or right and looking back you realise that things might have been different if only, if only … 1. [...]
The one about the gas cooker
There is a scurrilous stereotype about Yorkshiremen that states that they are just Scotsmen with longer pockets, in other words they do not like to spend their hard earned money in a free and frivolous way. Let me tell you about my father and the gas cooker…
Its useful to know a good plumber
Boxing Day 1968 and Ned and I are lying in bed, thick woollen blankets pulled up to our earlobes for it was another cold frosty morning in the bungalow without the benefit of central heating, central heating being a thing that only the posh kids families could afford. The procedure each morning was for us [...]
He came back from the war as a Cowboy..
Everyone has them – your local nutter. I was reminded of ours when someone mentioned him on the radio the other day, Geoffrey, our walking monk. To be honest Geoffrey is a bit of a disappointing name for a monk, I would have much preferred him to be a Dominic or even a Jesus (an [...]
Three Films
Prompted by Dan at Allthatcomeswithit to choose my best three films, and for no other reason that its a fairly un-exhausting choice and I have to be in another part of the country for a training course this week, then here is my decision, which is final and binding, so in no particular order the [...]
