Must have been about 12 years ago. We were on holiday that summer in Florida; and we went out for dinner. Which is the same as going out for dinner anywhere else in the world, except much earlier. You eat by 5 because last orders are at 6 and the places closes at 7. Seems – Read More-
Happy Anniversary to the England World Cup winning team of 1966. 50 years ago yesterday. Or, as someone else said to me yesterday: we’re celebrating the fact that we have won nothing for 50 years. Glass half full, half empty, ya take your choice. But I read a fact today that is much more telling. – Read More-
Nuclear power is the thing. A big thing. A powerful thing. Unquestionably the thing of the future. Coal runs out and makes a mess. Gas runs out, eventually, and is carbon-unfriendly. The sun don’t shine enough to be viable and windfarms are all well and good but simply don’t produce sufficient power for half time – Read More-
Two weeks tomorrow the new football season starts. Wow. Where’d the summer go? As usual, in a continual saga of clouds, sharp showers (they only became ‘sharp’ in 2014 and haven’t blunted yet) with the odd day yielding 32 degrees and 800% humidity. The perfect day for tube travel. Never mind, football, our ‘winter game’ – Read More-
In the Vietnam war, in the 60s, American soldiers were given steroids and amphetamines to enhance their battle performance. Greater strength, longer endurance, less tiredness. Some drugs do that. That’s why they’re called ‘performance enhancing’ and became the mainstay of the athletics industry since then. In ever less-detectable forms. Steroids for strength and muscle, amphetamines – Read More-
For the times, said Bob Dylan, they are a’changin’. He wrote some of his best lines whilst stoned out of his box. Yet that doesn’t dilute them or lessen them. Nor make them less valid today than when he wrote them. The times are a’changin’. We have a new prime minister (in case you missed – Read More-
When Jeremy Corbyn becomes Chairman of the United Kingdom, by then a communist state with an ‘executive committee’ of comrades, rather than parliament, future elections banned due to being unnecessary under the new regime of fairness and equality (for all except women, Jews and anyone else he doesn’t like), capitalism will be gone from these – Read More-
this is the face of the Olympics. The ‘Brazilian Bottom’. Ok, for those really up to speed on bikini styles, its actually the Brazilian Bottoms, referring of course the (very) briefs and not what is contained therein. Generally, if swimwear is more swim-not-wearing, then its Brazilian in title if not origin. Brazilian used to be – Read More-
If you want to learn about Jeremy Corbyn as he likes to be portrayed, read the Guardian. They share his stated ideals, pretty much all of them, from a fairly hard-left stance to the anti-semitic undertones, with ne’er a mention of the alleged threats to women Labourites of rape, murder or just plain ‘de-selection’ if – Read More-
In bridge you strive to make a ‘contract’ to play the hand. And if you and partner can’t agree a suit that you both hold sufficiently, when all else fails, you play in ‘no trump’. In which… doh… there is no trump suit. Its the last measure. Thus in America. All else has failed so – Read More-