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I’m a Celebrity, Get Me In There…
So here it is, my submission to ITV for the next production franchise of ”I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here”, this time with added realism. 1. Ten Celebrities are loaded onto a light aircraft and flown across a tropical wilderness, at a random location and purely at the discretion of the pilot he [...]
Video Sunday – Jimi Hendrix
I’m going down to Yasgurs farm, think I’ll join a rock ‘n roll band… This week, in one of those “and in other news” news items on the radio, Jimi Hendirx’s “Voodoo Chile” guitar riff was voted the best guitar riff of all time by a completely random music publication in an equally random and [...]
Video Saturday – Chuck Berry
83 year old Chuck Berry is currently touring the UK, although his gig this week at the Leeds O2 Academy was apparently cancelled, good news for me because when he comes back in March next year I might be able to afford a ticket by then…
The Woodman.
Its an inconspicuous pub, a person could almost miss it as it stands in the shadow of its next door neighbour, the bigger, more popular, nay famous Three Horse Shoes, but The Woodman was our public house of choice in our youth. It has long been the law in the UK that a person must [...]
On bartering…
I have only deliberately bartered for something once. I have bartered for many things accidently, like when you are casually browsing for something and a sales person approaches, engages you in conversation, and you stand there talking aimlessly whilst thinking “How the hell do I get rid of him now”, you offer your indifferent face [...]
Mr Wolfson
I would have been around 9 or 10 years old when I first met Mr Wolfson. A jovial man with a huge bushy handlebar moustache and what is, I believe, termed “salt and pepper” hair, wavy at the front, and a Terry Thomas jovial air completed the persona, indeed he bore some resemblance to Terry [...]
Maureens incredible baps
July 1974 it was, the day I left school and started work, left school on the Friday, started work on the Monday at an electrical contractors in Horsforth, about 40 minutes walk away, and I walked most days, even bought myself an executive style umbrella for those days when it rained. I was apprenticed to [...]
On X Factor last night…
Well quite frankly I’m gutted that poor John & Edward were booted off X Factor last night thus destroying in one fell swoop my conviction that anyone, I mean anyone, talent or no talent, can have a UK Singles Chart Number One over christmas. I quote Rolf Harris, Benny Hill, Mr Blobby, Little Jimmy Osmond [...]
Sunday muddy Sunday…
You see the good thing about NOT playing sunday league football is that you got to the pub at one minute before opening time instead of 30 minutes after opening time like the ones who DID play sunday league football. Life was very simple in the mid-1970s, regimented almost, licensing hours for pub openings on [...]
Video Saturday – Little Feat
Selected by Tim and thanks to him for reminding me of a band that I heard a little of in the 70s, and yes, Lowell George the lead singer does look remarkably like George Best from that era
