Archive | March 2010
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A New Business Venture ?
I’ve had a great idea for a new business venture, its time to rise from the ashes and become the tycoon that I always dreamed of being and the tycoon that my wife always spent like I already was… This is going to blow your mind, join the queue for you will all want one [...]
Not a happy Rhino
With four times European Superleague Champions Leeds Rhinos having lost five out of their first eight league games this year, its not a very happy Rhino at the moment. I’d forgotten how messy it is drawing with soft leaded pencils – 6B, EB and EE, pencil lead so soft that it smudges as soon as [...]
Women of a certain age…and class
Authors warning…this may turn into another rant. Why is it that when you put women of a certain age, and class, in a position of assumed authority (their assumption), then all the worst parts of inbred English class warfare rise to the surface like curdled fat in a pint of green milk ? We’ve been [...]
Sunday Laugh – Stephen K Amos
Stephen K Amos was making big waves at his debut during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007, I could have bought a ticket to see him, I should have, they were only £4, but I didn’t, for his show was on very late and in some strange high-brow throw-back to my more genteel roots I [...]
Video Saturday – Joe Bonamassa
I’ve been listening a lot to this young man recently and while blues are his thang, he plays in a lot of different styles – a very talented guitarist. And all the while I was listening on the excellent Spotify (tons of his stuff on there) I was thinking that there is something very familiar [...]
The Joseph Salmon Trust – In the News
The Joseph Salmon Trust is in the news today, making the news today, has been the headline news on Radio Leeds all morning, and all over the outrageous taxation of grieving parents and the issue of VAT on memorial headstones. Its one of those taxes that slips in under the radar, one that probably even [...]
A rant on behalf of the unemployed…
Its about time I had a rant about something, so here it is… Employers who treat job seekers like something they’ve just trodden in and walked right across their spotlessly white deep pile carpet. Its like this, and I’m talking to you Any Department Of Leeds City Council – when you advertise a job on [...]
The one about Jesmond Cinema
Its the winter of 1978, a long cold winter preceded by a dark, damp and mist laden approach into christmas, I was residing at the Fern Guest House in Jesmond, a rather posh district of Newcastle-u-Tyne at that time given over to private hotels and guest houses operated in the main by trendy young couples [...]
Tynemouth Railway Station
image copyright North Tyneside Libraries I used to collect postcards, no really, I was a proper geek and everything, and once I bought a job lot of Edwardian postcards sent from Whitley Bay, being as the married other has her roots there. The thing that surprised me when I got those postcards home was discovering [...]
Here’s where you Start/Finish
A very pleasant weekend spent on the North East coast, spent mainly looking at new houses actually, but maybe thats for later – instead, and for all those of you who will be partaking of the Hadrians Walk in aid of the Joseph Salmon Trust this July – take a look at your Start and/or [...]
