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A Book Club – “Devil At My Heels”, Louis Zamperini

If you’ve got 25 minutes to spare then have a look at this video, ok forget the last ten minutes then when he starts rambling on about God and all the religious guff because Louis Zamperini eventually became one of Billy Graham’s missionary’s, just so you are warned, the story ends with bible bashing. I’ve [...]

Video Saturday – The Faces (2010 version)

  Since Rod Stewart cannot now sing outside of his one octave range The Faces recently made an innovative choice for lead singer in this one-off gig last year which has resulted in three more performances this year. The sound recording of Mick Hucknalls voice isn’t too good on this video, the person with the [...]

The wonders of superglue

“I am rather of the opinion Father that I may need some medical attention for my wounds which have now been bleeding freely for the last half hour awaiting your return from the golfing society, in particular I believe that my chin may need stitching up by a medically qualified person being that I can [...]

The day I went free-flying

I have only ever had the need to use our city hospital A&E department twice in my life, and one of them was our Neds fault. He will blame me of course, but let me tell you, it was his fault. We were both in our early twenties, he was still living at home and [...]

Jacksons progress…

So its been a couple of months since he was rescued by The Dogs Trust and seven weeks since we brought him home and so a progress report on Jackson … He’s putting on weight, which is a good thing because when he came to us he was very skinny at 27kg, the ideal weight [...]

Film poster art

There is a news story here of how film poster art is reaching a phase of re-evaluation and re-appreciation although judging by the prices that prints of movie posters fetch in auctions that re-appreciation does not translate in wealth beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. Which makes me happy for all the wrong reasons. You see in [...]

The Michaels Patio Story

This summer’s Do-it-Myself project is to relay the driveway and I am doing it one yard at a time, literally one yard at a time, one bag of sand and one bag of pebbles will do about two yards down the middle of the two rows of concrete paving slabs that I’m re-aligning, I go [...]

On buying a hat…

I have a little problem. You see in five short weeks time I will be whisked away from these lands to a place in the Mediterranean that flies the flag of Greece and is known to the international community as the island of Corfu. I last was in Corfu in August 1980 but even with [...]

Video Saturday – Extreme

So its not about “the performance”, they don’t “perform” this song, there is no backing track, no lip-synching, no dead microphones, they don’t need special effects to disguise the inadequacies of their talent, there are no trapeze artists required in distraction techniques, no strobe effects, no fire bursts, no fire eaters, no-one dances in the [...]

A utopian dream…

We talked the other day, Ned and I, about how much more simpler life used to be for the generation that immediately preceded us, especially those without ambition beyond raising a family and having a holiday once a year. Imagine living in a small terraced house in a street where every house is the same [...]