Archive | April 2011
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Video Saturday – Billy Joel
“The Stranger” is still the best album he has ever made, by a long stretch, it must be really annoying for an artist to have their moment in the sun for a brief period and then spend the rest of their life trying to catch up again, still, that’s show business eh ?
London Olympic Tickets
Still on the subject of nutters, step forward the London 2012 Olympics ticket lottery applicants. 6.6 million tickets have been up for grabs for the past six or so weeks for all of the events, but its not as simple as picking, say, the 100 metres final and deciding that “oooh I’d like to see [...]
The Royal Order of Nutters
There are nutters everywhere. Its probably not polite to mention them, and certainly not politically correct (whatever that means), but its true none the less, there are nutters everywhere, on every street, often sleeping on the street. We visited, well, passed by anyway, a well known nutter who lives on the Leeds/Liverpool Canal the other [...]
Fire Fighters = Big Daft Lads, part two
I don’t think its a coincidence that the second “Fire Fighters = Big Daft Lads” story involves another Junior School as well, this time the one that my old mate Steve Burt was a teacher at in the 1970s. Break times to most teachers are their little havens of calm, a time for a crafty [...]
Fire Fighters = Big Daft Lads, part one
Fire-fighters are the Big Daft Lads of the emergency services, equipped only with a desire to die a horrible burning death they happily stroll into burning collapsing buildings armed with only a hosepipe on a daily basis, being daft is the only qualification required. And so, a couple of stories in support of the theory… [...]
On the easel…
Acrylic on canvas 60cmx60cm Someone asked for a painting of an elephant so here goes, all the groundwork done, now to add the wrinkles…
Easter Sunday
So Easter Sunday then, what does it mean to me ? It means that Smithy will be coming around here at 9am, the bikes on the back of the car and we’re off for a ride up the Leeds/Liverpool Canal towpath for as long as we can go before the doubts start to set in [...]
No Remorse At All
“I know what the people sing, I know what they’re thinking, but y’know, when all is said and done, I was a kid, y’know, I mean, I wasn’t even that keen on that rascal Puff, the friendship was kinda just one way, know what I mean, him dying like that – it was nothing [...]
Kate Middleton and some exciting news…
Dear Kay Burley, I read your recent article on Sky News http://blogs.news.sky.com/kayb/Post:62a6c53b-a9e5-40a6-915c-5e66cbfd619d with interest on how soon-to-be Queen Kate Middleton, (how do you call totty “Ma’am” rhymes with “Ham”), was spotted by one of your news hounds the other day out buying knickers, well, to be precise, a thong, a lacy thong that cost £3.90 and was [...]
Stereotypes, and matching them
Stereotypes exist because, well, they are generally true, people comply to stereotypes because the stereotypes were established to describe them and their behaviour. So, women drivers eh, how rubbish are they ? I spent an hour this morning sitting in my wifes car while she was at the dentist watching a …what, yes, I drove [...]
