Archive | August 2010
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Paying ??? To use the toilet ???
File under Grumpy Old Men… When did that start ? Paying to use the toilet, paying to have a jimmy, paying for a slash, with real money, your own money, who’s idea was that then ? Oh sure, women have been paying to use public toilets for generations, but thats women for you, they have [...]
What are all these people doing in my room ?
To say The Workhouse was not busy last week would be an over-statement. Its true, its a big hotel with huge public rooms and corridors, built on a grand scale in the gothic style in 1903 its like you’re staying in something from a Batman film and with 250 rooms its easy for a person [...]
Cup Final Day…
See that young player scoring the drop goal at Wembley to win the Challenge Cup for Leeds in 1978 ? He died last year aged only 57, one of the finest players to have ever worn a Leeds Rugby League shirt. There isn’t much pressure on the lads to win the RL Challenge Cup at [...]
A Winter Coat
Walking back to my hotel (read, the Workhouse) last night was a wet experience, for it was raining, I remember rain, it happened once in July when we did the bike ride. Fortunately I was armed for summer rain with my summer raincoat, a lightweight affair that repels light summer rain for, oooh, five minutes [...]
Its exam results time
Its lost in the mists of time, the day that I received my O levels results – O levels, the equivalent of todays GCSE’s, well sort of. In truth less than 50% of pupils took O levels, most of them being already sidetracked into secondary education where the exam of choice was the CSE, in [...]
In the workhouse…
Another week in Birmingham, four nights away from home staying in the luxurious environs of The Paragon Hotel, a huge edifice that I liken to The Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubricks film “The Shining” – no, from outside I know it doesn’t look much like The Overlook, but inside, downstairs in the public areas, those [...]
The car that followed us everywhere and parenting, 1960s style
There were two constants that occurred whenever we loaded up the car and set off on another long summer holiday of my childhood and youth – when you looked out of the back window of our car, there would be another car right behind us, and during the holiday all of the “parents sayings” would [...]
Its a mad, mad, mad, mad world…
Another clip from Stanley Kramer’s 1963 masterpiece “Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” a film that contained both every comic actor working in America at that time, and also every set-piece comic situation. In this clip, Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney have hired … just don’t worry about the script ok, the film is [...]
Video Saturday – Rod Stewart
There are many good reasons why I won’t go to any annual Rod Stewart arena tours, ticket prices being only one of them. OK, so ticket prices is the main one. But there is also this (see above), its not good is it ? Mr Stewart dressing like my dad used to in his twilight [...]
