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April 12, 2017

what a gas…

Boris goes to the G7 summit, because they need a court jester in that Falstaff mode over there to lighten things up. He was already made lame by his cancellation of a meeting with Putin because he didn’t want to take the glory away from Rex Tillerson, the American Secretary of State and ‘former’ friend – Read More-

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April 11, 2017

Moses 3, Arsenal nil…

The thing about Passover, other than not eating bread for a week, unless you’re at work, or you forget, or you just can’t be bothered not to, is about ‘telling the story’. You have to tell the story of when Moses led his people out of bondage in Egypt, over to safety, passing of the – Read More-

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April 10, 2017

bad egg…

Whilst Jesus was just coming up for resurrection, at the same time of year (but a thousand or so previously) Moses was leading his Jews out of Egypt. Out of bondage, slavery and the whole 50 Shades thing but on an industrial scale by the rotten, evil Pharaohs (boooooo). Which is why this time of – Read More-

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April 9, 2017

get a life…

You know what they say; get a life; or a granddaughter. I’ve chosen the latter. And I’m evangelical. Not about grandchildren in general, just mine. Because she’s special. Born after an immaculate conception. Every bit as believable as ‘the other one’, I mean: come onnnnn. And the morning she was born, 3 wise men arrived. – Read More-

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April 8, 2017

tossers…

I have some questions, a few issues, just to clear up before we go to war and the nukes start flying and nuclear winter takes over for the next 12 million years. The questions concern the total hypocrisy of the entire political world. Saudi Arabia has been bombing the Houthis in Yemen for years. No-one – Read More-

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April 7, 2017

addictive…

Are babies addictive? Should they be given a ‘class 1’ rating? Like heroin and cocaine? Have they set up support groups for tragic grandparents who swoon over any and every photo of their sleeping progeny? “My name’s Andy and I haven’t seen my grandchild for 35.72 hours”; “HELLO ANDY!!!!”. Because last night I went to – Read More-

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April 6, 2017

messianic…

Lila Sophia was born last Saturday morning. Other than being April 1st I thought no significance to the timing. Natalie did, as she’d been struggling and suffering and bleeding and being surgically intervened with for the 2 days previous. But its not about her, women deliver babies all the time. How hard can it be? – Read More-

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April 4, 2017

pizza distress…

Do you like pizza? The ‘strict’ answer is ‘of course not, bodies a temple, blah, blah, excessive fat, unnecessary carbs, too much salt, blah, blah, foodie-blah’. But of course the real answer is ‘FUCK YEAH!!!’ But generally when you go out to eat its a question of ‘do you want to go for a nice, – Read More-

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April 3, 2017

aspirations…

the omens were good. Lila was born and a mere 7 hours later Spurs won at Burnley. Obviously completely down to her. The very next day, yesterday, the day when, had she the power of speech, she could actually say: ‘do you think I was born yesterday??’, that very day Arsenal and Man City drew – Read More-

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April 2, 2017

grandparenting…

I’m new to this grandparenting lark. From what I’ve seen so far, its fantastic. I get to stare at the most gorgeous baby in the world, as long as I like. And I do like. She’s wonderful. Not that I’ve seen her with eyes open yet, but there’s time for these things. No rush. I – Read More-

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