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A Review of 2009
As is the tradition at this time of year we review the year according to The Jerrychicken Diaries and uncover a wealth of topics and assorted rubbish that surpasses all understanding… . January – We dined out on Bruce the Dwarf stories, the North East town of Blyth was dissected at length and summarised as [...]
The Bield
Acrylic on primed textured paper , 40cmx24cm click it, it gets bigger At the top end of Little Langdale in the English Lake District sits an old17th Century Cumbrian farm named The Bield. Alfred Heaton Cooper painted the scene around 120 years ago and I’ve used his painting as a reference point rather than the [...]
On Ilkla Moor Bar T’at
A little stroll yesterday partaken on Ilkley Moor, with a hat on actually as there was rather a nip in the air. A lot of last weeks snow has disappeared of course (to be replaced by some more tomorrow apparently) but the process of losing the snow in the UK involves a thaw and re-freeze [...]
…and then the wise men came
I don’t think its that star any more. Wha-aaat? How do you mean, you don’t think its that star any more, you told us it was… Yeah, you told us it was that star, you told us eighteen bloody months ago Well, I just don’t think it is that one any more, it might be [...]
Joe the Butcher
Joe the butcher-man was a friend of a friends dad and we all played dominoes in The Bay Horse at Meanwood of a Sunday lunchtime when ah wor nobbut a youth. Joe the butcher was your archetypal butcher, big and round like a barrel, jolly smile on his face, made a lot of sausages and pies, which turned [...]
The christmas do…
Last year’s company christmas “do” was the final straw, it may be just a coincidence, but there isn’t going to be another one this year, not in quite the same way anyway. After selling our business to them, Ned and I became employees of a much bigger company based in Birmingham and we were delighted [...]
A hole in my mouth
Ouchy, ouchy, ouchy… Went back to the dentist last night after five days of antibiotics had killed the abscess under my broken tooth, and as agreed I opened wide and my new dentist stuck the anesthetic needle in my jaw, and we were ready. She’s a very nice girl is my new dentist, very petite [...]
Grandma’s Treat
The Christmas Pantomime, an English Theatre tradition, a christmas without a pantomime in a theatre near you will be like a christmas without a sparkly tree in the corner of the room and a family argument on Boxing Day. As a child I only had one grandparent, my fathers parents had perished long before I [...]
