We lost 2 Oscars yesterday. I don’t mean the awards, as in ‘someone else has won MY award so we have to sit smiling and pretending we’re really happy for them whilst really we’d like to rip off their false eyelashes with pliers and disembowel them with a nine-inch gold statuette’. No, 2 other Oscars. – Read More-
I was walking down the Strand yesterday morning when I heard music. Not just noise, but music. Chanting. Drums. It was a protest, I could see as I neared. Or a support group. I couldn’t tell. What was fantastic was that this merry little group of Rwandans were chanting along to drums in unison and – Read More-
I went over to Slightly Dangerous Alan’s house on saturday to check out his new toys. His new hobby. Having grown bored of Counter Cross Stitch and flan-baking, he moved on to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Implements of Death. Nice. As a car dealer he obviously upsets a lot of people. There again, if – Read More-
Southampton beat Sunderland, eight to soddin’ nil that’s a score indeed, magnificent total thrill (unless of course, Gus Poyet is your name, in which case, never mind, what a bloody shame) And Chelsea just keep rolling on, vile though they are, but just too good for everyone else, Fabregas again the star They put lowly – Read More-
Is this the face of a rapist? Once again the ugly subject of rape tarnishes our otherwise pristine and perfect world. Phah! Yet rape is evil, is horrendous and is always a violent crime even if no apparent ‘violence’ took place, because it is an assault on someone’s body. So if Judy Finnegan thinks its – Read More-
‘Multi-cultural Britain’ started in the 1950s when immigration started from the West Indies. Because many West Indians lived in British colonies and were entitled to come here and live and work. Which they did. Encouraged to do so by shortages in many work sectors, they brought their music, their food and their fabulously laid-back attitude – Read More-
Great Tai Chi class last night. They’re always great but last night Grandmaster Lazlo was away so Guru Graham took over and gave his own take on the finest that eastern philosophy and mystical karma can aspire to, whilst inflicting serious damage on any possible assailants and causing pain and suffering to any would-be attacker. – Read More-
This is Mel in Vienna. Could be New York, Marbella, Ethiopia or Croydon. She sees some sunshine, a chink (I’m allowed to use that word in this context) in the clouds, a glimmer behind a wall, and she’ll turn and face it, anywhere, anytime. And smile. Because the sunshine makes her feel happy. Ahhhhhhh. I – Read More-
I had to look on a map yesterday to find out where, and in fact what, Estonia might be. As a kid I learned my geography of England by the location of the significant football teams. A process that would seem, whilst in my expanded horizons, to be continuing today. The rule is: if they – Read More-
Now here’s a funny thing. Two-and-a-half years ago, whilst walking round Ayers Rock (ok, ‘Oluru’ ya PC pedant) with Bulawayo Johnno, he told me of a film that ‘I simply HAD to see’. Yeah, ain’t they all. It was called ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ and its ‘brilliant’. Yeah, ain’t they all. He gave me a – Read More-