Next week Mel and I are headed to northern France. Mel wants to see it and I want to drive somewhere. Don’t care where. Le Touquet is as good as anywhere. Hit the road, Jack. Why we’re actually going over to Calais is to see some boats launching. We’ve seen them arrive here for years, – Read More-
Never doubt the power of the press. The ‘wonderfully impartial’ BBC, whose news is my daily obsession, even though I hate 72% of what they say, and more importantly, THE WAY THEY SAY IT, demonstrated this last night. With just one ‘throw away’ sentence. When speaking of the beloved Harry & Meg, the newsreader told – Read More-
We have such a fabulous squad this season. We bought Tonali; he’s great, now he’s out of prison over his gambling… commitments; we have Fernandes who was deemed even too good to play for West Ham, and now we’re getting Savinho from Manchester City. As well as another big Dutchman in defence to create a – Read More-
So poor Jason Arday goes from international hate-figure, cheat, scam-artist, liar, plagiarist and truth-avoiding con-man, to ‘poor fallen hero’, with just one… overdose? rope around the neck?? hari-kiri??? And all because of… Me. I am the problem. I wrote a post about Jason and he topped himself. I never knew he read my rants. Ok, – Read More-
Last night… It fucking rained!!! I hate the rain; my very clean car got wet! I have to take a rain-proof jacket on my bike. It’s… wet!!! Stops you having fun outdoors. It’s always bloody rainin’ here. Ok, it hasn’t rained for 6 weeks and the entire country is totally desiccated. This ‘verdant isle’ is – Read More-
Tony Blair is the man for a crisis. He managed to orchestrate peace in Northern Ireland, FFS, so how hard can the middle east be? Compared to a bunch of militaristic kneecapping Irishmen who’d been murdering each other for 30 years? Oh, the Israelis and Palestinians have been doing it for nearly 80 years and – Read More-
So we were sitting in the garden on Friday night, before dinner. Drinks. Nothing posh, more: how can I get pissed most quickly and efficiently? Because of the temporary absence of Lila, Joey & co, cos they’re in Crete, it was a small affair. Just us, the younger daughter and the adopted daughter. Well, we’ve – Read More-
The A-level results came out on Thursday and, as a consequence, anyone with A-level statistics will be fine understanding the vast output of ‘data’ available in the press. If you got history/French/economics; don’t bother looking. You won’t understand. But two ‘trends’ simply have to be mentioned and explained and understood. Boys averaged higher in A-level – Read More-
Did you see the eclipse??? Wow!!! Amazing!!! But of course, you didn’t ‘see’ it, or you’d be at Moorfields with patches on your eyes hoping to restore your destroyed retinas. Unless you’re in the tiny minority of people who actually had ‘eclipse glasses’, accredited with the exact British Standards number! Obviously, if you’re an exploitative – Read More-
Tomorrow is ‘our day off’. Its Lila-Joey-day but due to them being in Crete, our daughter has reluctantly agreed that our services will not be required, having made extensive inquiries with various airlines about flight availability for ‘day trips’ for ‘staff’. So we had booked, a few months ago, a trip to Wakehurst. That’s ‘the – Read More-