Archive | September 2011
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When walking along the very edge of the road…
You know how it is on the last day of your holidays, you’ve packed your suitcase, you’ve jumped up and down on it until it locked, and you’ve put aside the clothes you’re going to wear for that day – now all you have to do is waste the day until you’re due to go [...]
When “the turn” doesn’t do a turn…
There is one thing that I hate about being in a bar enjoying a meal and a drink with friends, its that moment when suddenly they announce that “the turn” is coming on. “The turn” for those unfortunates not to be of a Northern flavour is of course a performer, an act, a band, a [...]
A Tribute To The Tribute Acts
And so the singer turns up in the small holiday resort in the foreign country that their agent has sent them to on a twelve week season-long booking to entertain British holiday makers, the taxi collects them from the airport and whisks them straight to the bar to which they are contracted and they are [...]
No More The Eco-Warrior
I’m sorry, but someone else is going to have to save the world. I’ve handed in my Eco-Warrior badge for the winter, packed away the bike in the garage and bought a car for myself. No more will I feel the wind in my face of a morning on the six mile ride to work, [...]
This bag seems to be heavy…
£14 a kilo overweight they charge at the check-in desk. Robbing buggers, especially as they don’t weigh people, skinny people should get a bigger baggage allowance than lard-arses, and if they are prepared to average out the weight of the passengers, effectively just guess how much 200 passengers will weigh, then its obvious that weight [...]
Flamborough
Flamborough, North Yorkshire Acrylic on boxed canvas, 50cmx50cm, available to purchase at ArtGallery.co.uk
Video Saturday – The Stones Altamont Free Concert
So I took the Sony eReader on holiday with me to save having to find suitcase room for the four or five books I normally take abroad on such occasions (cue story of excess baggage charges at Manchester Airport one year), and its got thirty or so books loaded onto it, so plenty of [...]
How womens brains work…
This is a Public Information Post. This is how women work… You stay up late watching something on TV, the wife goes to bed. When you finally decide its time for bed too you walk into the bedroom to find the TV set in there still showing a repeat episode of Eastenders, the show for [...]
In which we meet a pair of married wankers.
“Its 100ml, its perfectly legal, LOOK” shouted the man directly in front of me at the security desk He was waving a 300ml bottle of water at the Greek female security guard who was manning the baggage x-ray machine at Corfu airport, she had already stopped the man’s wife and asked her if she had [...]
A View For Your Eyes Only (see what I did there)
…and so Tassos and his big red tour bus took us up into the mountains above the perfect coastal village of Paleokastritsa, the very village where they once filmed the James Bond film “For Your Eyes Only” starring Roger Moore. Has anyone ever seen a decent film starring Roger Moore ? OK then, a half [...]
