Archive | August 2011
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Excuse Me, I Think The Aircraft Is On Fire…
Right, time to be off, holiday-time and here’s me in me shorts clutching a bottle of after-sun and me passport waiting for our Ned to whisk us off to the airport, not the perfectly good international airport thats just one mile away across the fields from this here house we live in, oh no, another [...]
Glen Campbell…
Nice Glen Campbell video from his latest, and some say his last album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4mylwPMPhM Nice interview in which he speaks of his past, and the present while Alzheimer’s confuses the two http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/26/glen-campbell-interview My posh Auntie Doris awakes this morning in a nursing home still unaware that her husband of 60-odd years died back in February, [...]
Video Saturday – John Lennon
Just in case we tumble from the sky in a passable imitation of a meteor crashing to earth (hey, it nearly happened last time) what better tune to go out to than this ? *Adds to funeral list*
Shopping at the Co-op
I switched energy providers the other week, I buy my gas and electricity from the Co-op now and I urgently urge you good folks to do the same, not because they are cheaper or anything but because if they can get 10,000 customers then they can start buying their product properly instead of having to [...]
Father of Daughters – Here’s How It Works
This is what happens when you are a father of girls, especially as they grow into teenagers and then young women… So its April 2010 and the youngest daughter (17 at that time) starts nagging for her birthday present, her birthday is another month away yet but thats quite good going, she normally nags for [...]
The Countdown Begins…
The time is swiftly approaching when I shall abandon this blog for a period not exceeding 15 days in order to partake of a thing that other people are calling “my holiday”, I know not what they speak of for the last time I took one of these “holidays” was, well, a long time ago, [...]
School Exams
I can’t recall the day when, at the age of 16 years, I received my O Level results, I can recall lots of things from my childhood but not that day although if you listen to media commentators at the moment and if you watch as they gather outside and inside schools to observe students [...]
The Difference Between First And Standard Class Is All In The Doors
I travelled back from Birmingham First Class the other day, a complimentary First Class ticket offered by Cross Country Trains, the complimentary bit being the upgrade to First, I don’t know why but you don’t refuse things like that do you ? So what does going First Class on a Cross Country train entail, what [...]
Summer of 71 and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
On Saturday lunchtime the evergreen Tony Blackburn played the chart listing from this month in 1971 and included in that chart was a moment in time that is still crystal clear in my shaky mind, a freeze-frame moment of perpetual memory involving the whole of the Pakistan cricket team and a temporary job as gopher [...]
Video Saturday – The Four Tops
Probably the best song The Four Tops ever recorded, probably runs close as the best soul recording ever, by anyone, although I could pull out a few Aretha Franklin recordings that would beat it. There was a time when our music charts would be guaranteed to have “proper” soul tunes like these in them, a [...]
