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
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The Sunday Ramble – Standing Room Only
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
Continue reading →The Last Flight of the Great Auck.
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
Continue reading →Underwhelmed.
I’ve just turned on the news to see ‘the best of Britain’ to quote our glorious leader…
Shot of a grey leaden sky over the Olympic stadium, cut to a grubby Union Jack fluttering somewhere in
Continue reading →Equality for All. The Right to Be Bullied, Courtesy of Islington Council.
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.
They decreed that in order to
Continue reading →The Dead Tree Proles.
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
Continue reading →Who gets the wet patch?
It was last year when our landlady scandalised (possibly) some of our readership with a blog post that began with the immortal opening lines…
“There was a lengthy period of time, during which,
Continue reading →Silence is Guardian.
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 –
Continue reading →RIP Captain Haddock.
We have lost one of that happy band of commentators, without whom, we Bloggers would have no purpose in life.
Their wit, their erudite comments, their support when times are hard and inspiration is low, are the very life blood of any
Continue reading →Why can’t the English be more like the French?
I’ve been pondering the rash of new regulations over the week-end in the US, a country the UK grows more alike every week.
First the cinema chain AMC banned ‘Joker’ costumes, and fake fire arms being carried into
Continue reading →The Cat With No Name
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
Continue reading →Bring Me the Head of PC Simon Harwood on a Platter!
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
Continue reading →One Man and His Shed.
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
Continue reading →***Exclusive*** Paedophilia and Bizarre Uses for Parliament.
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
Continue reading →Science as religion.
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
Continue reading →Nappy Days are Here Again.
Not for me Thank God, just watching the BBC2 documentary on Taxi firm Addison Lee was enough to send shivers down my spine.
Following on from yesterdays post, I bring
Continue reading →Just colour me Dormouse….
Don’t fight it, don ‘t panic, just pack up your things quietly and leave the country.
No wonder they’ve called the military in to guard the Olympics, who could they hire in the civilian world? This
Continue reading →Don’t mention the ‘F’ word.
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
Continue reading →The Sunday Ramble – If I was a Duck
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
Continue reading →The ShambOlympics.
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
Continue reading →For the easily offended.
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’.
It seems that local councillors
Continue reading →It was 50 years ago today…
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.
For a variety of reasons, Ms Raccoon knows
Continue reading →Blogging Police Inspector Unmasked!
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?
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Of Mice and Men
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
Continue reading →A Question for You on the Risk Adverse Society.
How much control should the authorities maintain over those that they decree might pose a risk to society? Any, marginal, none? What is your choice?
Let us take two ‘risk regimes’ and two hypothetical people posing
Continue reading →The Longest Walk ….
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.
Yet this in
Continue reading →Leveson Schmeveson, it’s a waste of time and money…
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
Continue reading →Classic FAIL!
That is one Hell of a way to describe your dear husband, Madam, we are indebted to you……
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The Sunday Ramble
Shine on, you not so crazy Diamond!
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
Continue reading →Wheelchair access to the Blogosphere.
Lord help me blog from day to day
In such a tort defying way
That even when I forget to pray,
My prose will be accessible.
Help me find the pluggins do,
As the legislation doth accrue
I know the things I write