Well it had to happen sometime, I s’pose. The bloody car arrived. The ‘lectric one. Having ordered it in November 2021, it just became one of ‘those things’. Santa Clause coming at Xmas, Spurs winning a trophy, new car arriving. And then, out of nowhere!!!! (Ok, we had monthly apologies telling us of components troubles, – Read More-
Gary’s coming back!!! He’s possibly forgiven? Probably restrained? Warned? Instructed?? Reprimanded? Who knows? What goes on at the Beeb, stays at the Beeb. But everyone’s favourite footballing smooth-bastard is returning to Match of the Day on Saturday night, with his full team of strikers (Shearer and Wrightey), plus a few midfielders (Danny Murphy, Jermaine Jenas), – Read More-
It all started with my shoulder. My new one ‘arrived’ and so the younger daughter came with it, like a package deal. I came home from hospital and she flew in from Berlin to ‘care’ for the ‘invalid’, who was cut and stapled back together and drugged up to his eyeballs and slinged and in – Read More-
Gary Lineker is ruining my life!!! Match of the Day last night was 14 minutes of… well, of football! No commentaries, no debate after each match as to whether this ones elbow was offside when that one passed the ball, or whether the goalie was unsighted due to having a strikers fingers in his eyes, – Read More-
Its amazing. One little flurry on twitter and Gary Lineker has started a veritable shit-storm of hate (right wingers), support (left wingers), vitreol, (home secretaries), venom (home secretaries) and those eager to ‘moron-match’ his original message (more home secretaries). And this is a problem now on sooooooooooo many levels. There’s freedom of speech, content of – Read More-
What we gonna do about refugees? Illegals?? Boat-people who risk their lives to arrive in Dover but really would much prefer to be in Kensington? Who have taken a dice with death to get away from… well, that’s a good question. But its ok, Suella Braverman and little Rishi have come up with a 3 – Read More-
I went to Watford the other night. Because I just ‘neeeeded’ culture and Watford’s the obvious place to find it. Innit? Well it was on Saturday night for a new production of… Merchant of Venice! So they shipped Shylock over from Venice to… Cable Street, London E1. And during the move he left 17th Century – Read More-
Having failed miserably to unravel the financial situation at Manchester City, trying to work out which of ‘Abu Dhabi Investments’, ‘the investment company of Abu Dhabi’, Dhabi Abu Investments Inc.’ and ‘nothing to do with Abu Dhabi investments for the purposes of football accounting, plc’, are anything to do with each other, we now have – Read More-
Mel always comments when, in a cabinet ‘reshuffle’, the minister for ‘diversity’ becomes the minister for education. But he/she knows NOTHING about that!!!, my wife cries. Then a week later he/she is the chancellor. Or minister for obesity and motor cars. And its true, they know precisely fuck all about their new specialist subject. And – Read More-
So yesterday, in a quiet moment at work, I was in discussion with ‘the film buff’ and the talk meandered round to Dustin Hoffman, as these things do. From my (rare) theatre visit to see him as Shylock in about nineteen eighty-something; the Merchant of Brooklyn. Accent didn’t really work. Little old Venetian Jew sounding – Read More-