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Watched the Les Dawson appearance on Parkinson video earlier. I like good comedians but there are very few around nowadays. My first live encounter was in 1962 when the Corporals’ Mess 3 Para booked an [more…]

Managed to catch the first ten minutes of PMQs. Starmer is a hard watch but I forced myself to see out the sparring between him and Bad Enoch. I reckon Willy S had it right [more…]

Mention of snow of course leads back, for those that were around at that time, to the Winter of 1946/1947. I was six and the most vivid memory I have was walking between banks of [more…]

Today, December 17th is a rather poignant day. It was the birthday of my younger brother who died many years ago. Each year since then I have called my sister-in-law on the day to see [more…]

Note to self – don’t do a final proof reading late at night after a whisky or two …….. However, life goes on I see the Tottenham Turnip and Pixie Balls have different views on [more…]

It is unlikely that the Petition will be debated but it does send out a very powerful message to the gang of prats at the top and even, perhaps, some of the normies will sit [more…]

When ever I start one of these pieces I begin to feel a touch of the Victor Meldrew’s coming on – there is so much to delight happening around (c.f. many of the lovely articles [more…]

Bonfire night. Wonder if the youngsters are as active as we were. A couple of weeks of ‘Penny for the Guy’ on the street and we had our little cache of fireworks. Nearest bonfire, hot [more…]