We have house guests. Or had, they buggered off this morning, probably with half our silverware and the tv from the spare room. But what a joy to share one’s home, one’s house, one’s life, albeit temporarily, even with freeloaders from Australia. Yes, Bulawayo Johnny and Dr Bill (that’s a ‘she-doctor’ in case you’re wondering – Read More-
Was torture perpetrated on the inmates at Guantanamo Bay and similar detention camps by the Americans, and possibly the British, upon Al Quaeda suspects? And were the US and UK governments aware it was happening? These are the ‘big questions’ that are being asked. Though why they’re being asked now when the term ‘waterboarding’ entered – Read More-
Do you ever read about trials and sentences and just think: ‘what the f-??’ In South Africa, land of the wife-killer (I know Oscar Pistorius wasn’t actually married to the woman he murdered but he probably would have chosen to marry her at some point if he hadn’t put a few bullets through her instead), – Read More-
Interesting article the other day about why ‘we’ all fucking hate ‘tests have shown’ and ‘surveys’ and stuff because we can’t trust them. I can’t remember the specifics but the gist was; whoever pays for the study/survey/whatever, generally gets what they want to show/prove. Climate change was a big culprit/victim in this. And a senior – Read More-
Yesterday afternoon it got dark early, ahhh, life in the northern bit of the world in winter, so I sat in front of the telly with a nice cup of tea and fell asleep as Aston Villa beat Leicester. Two teams I have no care nor contempt for, in fact, no nothing. They’re too weak – Read More-
London is 4 million years old. It was built by a Diplodocus called Harry and a Wooly Mammoth called Nigel. I’m not talking about the land where London is situated, I’m talking about LUUUNDUUUN, the city, the area, the best place in the world. And its big, like all, er, big Cities. So we break – Read More-
A woman is pregnant. And alcoholic. Every day she drinks a bottle of vodka and 8 pints of ‘strong’ beer. Or ‘normal behaviour’ as its called in Newcastle. Her child is born with brain damage due to the alcohol. Which is tragic. The woman is taken to court but they find it is not a – Read More-
Well we’re not going to talk about football. We’re just not. I’ll change the subject. It was bad enough that my invite for Tuesday night’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show, held in London for the first time, failed to arrive, then we had to go to Chelsea. And, as Elvis Costello prophetically sang: I don’t want – Read More-
Charles Babbage invented ‘the computer’ in the early 19th Century. His machine fills a massive room at the Science Museum and performs one task. Differential calculus. Useful. A hundred years later and Alan Turing, the 2nd World War code-breaker, came up with his new, improved version. Which had more similarity to a tractor than to – Read More-
When I was 49 years old, plus about 357 days, I received an email from Saga, the ‘old age’ company who send the ancient on cruises upon which there are first class geriatric medical facilities and funeral directors, arrange care homes, offer BMW Zimmer frames cheaply and generally cater for ‘life over 50’. Motherfuckers. I – Read More-