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August 6, 2017

kicking off…

Its all starting today. The football season is BACK!! Sky tv has now an official football-exclusive designated channel which won’t become the darts channel at 8 o’clock, or the world mountain biking championship channel at 02.15. No. Even insomniacs can enjoy football for 24 hours a day. Every day. Lovely. And it all starts today – Read More-

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August 5, 2017

matter of perspective…

“Russian inquiry robs voters of democracy”, said Donald Trump. What he didn’t say was which voters. I reckon he was actually talking about Russian voters as really they’d be the only ones to lose out if the US presidential election was to be ‘reversed’ or re-run or whatever would be deemed necessary if it should – Read More-

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August 4, 2017

green fingers…

I love my garden. Its semi-classic, semi-wild and semi-lunacy (that’ll be the giraffe). Three semis. A mathematical impossibility but a lovely place to sit in the summertime. Takes a lot of care. Apparently. So I mow the lawn. That’s my job. Man’s job. Mel does more delicate things with little scissor things and special gardening – Read More-

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August 3, 2017

shoot to kill…

Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham is incensed by the BBC. They interviewed him on the radio, ostensibly to talk about his charity but then changed the agenda. Beefy’s charity the Country Food Trust, was to be the beneficiary of about 10,000 partridges and pheasants that will be shot on his estate. All the dead birds, to the – Read More-

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August 2, 2017

message for Jeremy…

Whilst the whole world is condemning President Maduro over there in Venezuela, one voice is still so silent that it has become almost deafening. That of Jeremy Corbyn. Jezza finds it very very hard to criticise any socialist, anywhere, anytime. No matter how many innocent civilians get killed, regardless of the rights that are removed, – Read More-

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August 1, 2017

future perfect…

There’s a company in California that provides corporations with inspiration for future planning. By using Sci-fi short stories written by a hundred authors. Sci-fi becomes sci-fact. As it did with the ‘video-phone’. Which first appeared in lots of (generally really cheap) sci-fi movies and tv series in which a phone, nailed to a wall with – Read More-

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July 31, 2017

death becomes her…

We were in Paris the night Princess Diana died there. I personally had nothing to do with it. Honest. And as proof, I was never named in one of the 863 conspiracy theories that went round at the time. We were driving back from Disneyland and had to take a detour because the Peripherique was – Read More-

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July 30, 2017

silly season…

The football season is just days away now. The new one. New broom. All bets off. League table in alphabetical order. All to play for. Brighton have the same chance as Manchester City. Hmmm… Other than the 500 million quid difference between the teams. Manchester City have a back four costing almost 200 million. 3 – Read More-

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July 29, 2017

trumpton…

How do you get a name like Reince Priebus? If JK Rowling doesn’t give it to you? You’d spend your entire childhood trying to unravel the “i before e except after r” conundrum. And once you’d sorted it out, you’d still have a really silly name. But Reince overcame this miserable childhood to become a – Read More-

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July 28, 2017

distractions…

How can I concentrate on the problems of the world when I keep getting distracted. Though if I have one pure and superlative skill, it is the ease with which I can be distracted. Always been the same. Homework to do, fine, then the tv comes on. Homework… later. But today’s distraction was a worthy – Read More-

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