Archive | February 2011
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Insurance and my dislike of the genre
Insurance stuff does my head in. I don’t trust insurance companies, end of story. I have a natural dislike for the whole slimy, toady, self-interested, self perpetuating industry that masquerades as a public service whilst at the same time tries to screw the public every which way it can, whilst conversely the public try and [...]
Video Saturday – Alison Moyet
Personally speaking, I have to concede to looking a little more disheveled, a little more portly, a little lacking in follicle cover when I compare myself today to photos of myself in 1984, if given the choice then I would prefer the 1984 version of myself, visually if not worldly experience-wise – the same cannot [...]
Scorecards
“Scorecards” I’m fourteen years of age, its the summer months, the rugby league season has finished and so has my one hour per fortnight job of selling programmes that earns me as much as my mates earn stacking shelves in supermarkets for eight hours. “Scorecards” The summer months are the cricket season at Headingley, three [...]
The first game of rugby league
August/September 1966, a Friday night, the first rugby league match I ever attended, the first time I had been on a Lambretta, the first time I realised that it was ok for men to swear when in other mens company, the evening is still easy to recall to mind, the smell of wintergreen, tobacco smoke [...]
The Cliff Barbados
The Cliff Restaurant, Barbados, acrylic on canvas, 420mmx300mm Commissioned by Matt who likes to spend his hard earned bonus and overtime gently sipping Banks beer on the terrace here while putting the world to rights on his beloved Aston Villa who are after all the best team in the whole world ever – he told [...]
The Highland and its bar snacks
A backstreet pub, literally on a back street, you’d trip up over it before you saw it and if you had to explain to anyone where it was then you wouldn’t know where to start, “Behind the fire station” would be a good place to start, “Within dog shit sniffing distance of the RSPCA kennels” [...]
A Royal Wedding Invitation
I’m on tenterhooks here awaiting the arrival of our postie this morning for I am fully expecting my invitation to the royal wedding to plop through the letterbox today. or maybe tomorrow, or next week if they’ve sent it second class. Its not like I have no experience of celebrity weddings for of course you [...]
Bar trashed in Las Palmas
You see, this is the sort of disgraceful drunken behaviour that gets us British people a bad reputation abroad,
