Archive | December 2011
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Video Saturday – Rodney Branigan
Heard this when he played it live on Radio Leeds earlier this year, has some nice stuff on http://www.myspace.com/rodneybranigan/music You have to listen to the words though – its about a dog, there, I’ve given the game away, its about a dog. Happy New Year.
Holiday, how will we ever decide now ?
I’ve only just realised, but then again I can’t say that I ever really looked out for it, that we British people no longer have the benefit of advice on where to go for our holidays at this time of year, advice served warm and all-smiley-like by middle class people who you knew for a [...]
Reasons to hate golf, part two
Last year I was on the search for a car for myself, I was buying it for myself, for me to use, not a company car, this one was for me, my car. And being the Green sort of person I am, I was attracted by the various manufacturers who boasted of cars that emitted [...]
Getting older day by day…
Children always look the same to parents. They grow older, of course, and from their point of view they have changed in terms of maturity, of knowledge. She may well see me differently. My beard gets white with time. But it is a pleasure to meet your children so long as they respect you and [...]
Video Saturday – The Beatles
. The Christmas #1 December 1965. A double A side (kids, ask your parents) with “Day Tripper” and a collaboration between Lennon, McCartney and Harrison and featuring a foot-pumped “Salvation Army” harmonium, it just wouldn’t sound the same without the harmonium would it ? I love this song, its so evocative to me, I hear [...]
Joe The Butcher
Time for the annual re-telling of the perfectly true Joe the Butcher story. Joe the Butcher was, of course, a butcher, a traditional butcher in those days when proper butchers worked from small shops and chopped the meat up there in front of your eyes and nothing was available already cut, weighed and shrink wrapped [...]
Here’s Santa !
“So what would you like for Christmas little boy, some live ammunition and a method of delivering it perhaps ?” Police were today warning parents to be on their guard against bogus Santa’s operating in supermarket car parks, motorway service stations or just wandering up and down your local High Street, capturing the attention of [...]
0800 FAIRY
At this festive time of year thousands of fairies will be dragged screaming from their homes in the lofts of houses across this land, isolated from their friends and family at this most precious time of year and by means of sellotape and rubber bands affixed to the very tip of conifer trees for up [...]
Message to Northern Rail…
7.31am Monday morning, I stand once again on the platform of Horsforth station awaiting the train into Leeds. Its only three stops out of the city on the Harrogate line and so the train is almost at the end of its journey from either York or Harrogate by the time it arrives at the first [...]
