Archive | January 2011
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Sunday evening TV
It wasn’t a good start to a TV drama. For a TV drama to work properly it has to have a smidgen of believe-ability, that is its watching audience has to sit there thinking “Oh yes, that could happen just like that” Episode One of Series One of ITV’s “Wild At Heart” starts in 2006 [...]
An unorganised kind of holiday
Watching the TV adverts for Haven Holidays leaves you initially admiring the fact that they seem to have crammed a lot of good stuff for kids to do into their holiday sites, but a little later leaves me in particular wondering if taking a holiday these days involves handing over your imagination at the gate. [...]
The sort of film review you don’t get in polite company
I have to say, The Kings Speech is a fookin good film and if it doesn’t win a fistful of Oscars then The Academy know fook-all about their craft. I “borrowed” it tonight, happened to find it had somehow found its way onto my laptop, really don’t know how that happened at all, however I [...]
Posting this week
WordPress doesn’t like it when you try and use it on an unsecured public wireless network like I am doing right now in my hotel room – yes I’m staying at the Irish Mens Workhouse again this week, a 1903 grand building in the Gothic style built to provide lodgings for around 900 single immigrant [...]
We nicked the mayor today mum…
Great local news story here, this is what local newspapers were invented for http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Children-with-speed-cameras-pull.6697886.jp The local Police go into primary schools to lecture young children on road safety and how to keep themselves safe with traffic around and as part of that they can sometimes invite the children outside and show them how their hand [...]
Video Saturday Thats Not A Video – Sammy Walker
Being that Youtube have been invaded by the lawyers again and embedding seemingly prohibited upon pain of death, here instead is a link to the ever-excellent Spotify and Sammy Walker’s “Catcher In The Rye”, install it if you don’t already have it, free music, what more can I say ? Sammy Walker – Catcher In [...]
Orienteering and how to win at it
Let me tell you how lovely the lovely Miss Cockayne was – she convinced me that cross country running was a great idea – thats how lovely she was. A woman who could sell something like cross country running to a group of otherwise lethargic 17 year olds held immense power in her hands, indeed [...]
A wasted year, apart from Miss Cockayne
It didn’t take long for Juicy Adams to realise that I’d slipped through his interview net, one morning I was handed a note by a tutor that simply read “see me in my office, immediately, signed Juicy Adams” so I went to see him. “I see you slipped through my interview net Laddie” is how [...]
A meeting with Juicy Adams
There came a time, September 1973 to be precise, when Leeds Modern School was happy to wash it hands of me, our year had completed our O levels in the June and not returned, we were 16 years of age and had been fully and completely educated in accordance with the law of the land, [...]
