Oregon. It’s that wide open state of mountain and forest where American’s dream of a life of self sufficiency, fish for your supper, shoot your breakfast, camp fires, and a thumping great 4 x 4 to tear
This is the house where Chris used to live. It is a half timbered effort, dating I guess from somewhere in early 1800’s. As you can see, it is not situated in bucolic seclusion, at least
The Great Auck, a humourless, preening bird, thought to be deservedly extinct, has been sighted flapping its ungainly wings in the Blogosphere. Whilst agile enough in the boardroom of Northcliffe’s regional media division, it is clumsy
Back in 2009, in the bad old days of daft legislation (sic), one of my favourite quango’s, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, launched its latest brain dead salvo.
It is not M’lud Leveson that will see the Dead Tree Proles out of work and unemployable; they are more likely to condemn themselves by their own fair hand in their increasingly hysterical efforts to be seen
I have been waiting in vain for several days for the Guardian’s coverage of the latest ‘Domestic Violence’ outrage. I know how passionately they feel about the subject. 65 articles in the last 30 days alone –
About three years ago I had the misfortune to run into some financial problems. The details don’t matter. All I would like to say is that it was not a case of me being improvident or
If they desire a thing they declare that it is true. If they desire it not, though that were Death itself, they cry aloud, ‘It has never been.’ Thus their talk is the talk of children, and
I needed to open a can of treacle today. Mr G was off in the middle distance, roaring up and down the field on his tractor; the man who cut the hay had had a
It is easy to wonder ‘What is the purpose of Parliament’ these days, when all they seem to do is conduct a childish haranguing match over the dispatch box. John Hemming MP has today reminded us that the whole
Contemplating protests so widespread in America about genetically modified organisms (G.M.O.s), I’m struck by the facts that Americans to-day, just as peoples around the World, are taller and generally have a greater life expectancy than ever before. (Admittedly
We have the likes of Cosmopolitan magazine circa 1960 to blame for modern women’s fear of the ‘F’ word. They sold her the idea that to have a fulfilling life, she must have a ‘C’ word in
If I was a duck, I would speak to other ducks. If I was a little boy I would play with other little boys. And if I was a slightly sinister, faceless corporate machine with my
Well over a decade ago, a motley collection of dreamers, thinkers, artists, radicals and romanticists decided to get together under the stars over a summer weekend. We wanted to make a place to party, free
Over six million people bought this Donald McGill post card and weren’t offended. However, local councillor’s were on his tail, and in 1953 he faced a show trial, and was ultimately fined for his ‘obscenity’.
The evening news was full of interviews with The Rolling Stones, ’50 years since they played their first gig at The Marquee Club’. I’m puzzled by the dates.
God God! – Is Inspector Gadget really a teen age belly dancer in Scunthorpe? An unmarried Mother of four different brats with a Brazilian wax and ‘I shagged John Terry’ firmly tattooed on the left buttock?
My parents’ house was invaded by mice recently. Now don’t get me wrong, I love all God’s creatures. So when a tiny mouse about the size of fifty pence piece poked its wiggling nose out from
It’s only been a few weeks since I posted about the number of RTC’s we attend where a major contributory factor to the injuries received is the lack of wearing seat belts.
The media will never change, not so long as the dual pressures of vanishing advertising revenues and 24 hour rolling news schedules to fill are in place. Leveson can invite as many ex-Prime Ministers and newspaper editors as he
It was billed as either the day when Bob Diamond spilled the beans and came out with all guns blazing, taking down former colleagues, officials from the