You are too late. Should have called in earlier. She’s already left.
She has jetted off to sunny Glasgow to attend a seminar on Moral Panic.
She thinks Marrakech would have been a better idea
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon regrets…
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
A disturbing post from Rabbitaway – who knew? The Court of Protection moves on from deciding who you can have sex with – to who you can talk to! Dioclese on nursery rhymes. Continue reading →
Exposure: Once Upon a Time (Spoof)
Guest presenter Bernard Cribbins wants to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then he’ll begin… Continue reading →
They'll be Coming Round the Mountain…
Or rather they won’t! Was I the only person who raised a silent cheer at the news that the Nepalese Sherpas had walked off Everest, and that thus ‘this year’s Everest expeditions
Wake me up before you Go-Gojam!
Gojam, the ever present, malodorous, spiteful, demanding, unreasonable, illogical, presence in my life, who had no other function in life than to spout bile, has been given his marching orders. From Tuesday afternoon he will be
Ragnarok cometh…
Pit-Bull logic…
Would you? I mean really? You’d leave your 11 month old baby in the care of this charmer?
It seems that you wouldn’t be quite as crazy as the knee-jerkers would have
Continue reading →Sad But Mad Lad
For various reasons I’m moving to my own personal blog.
Those of you who wish to keep reading my witterings and blatherings about stuff that makes me sad and mad please wander over to Continue reading →
Cookies & Biscuits
Just a quick post to say that cookie control has been enabled as per the EU Cookie Directive, boo hiss.
A right pain in
Continue reading →Eulogy to Anna
Dear Brothers and Sister of the Blog
Many years ago, too many to remember, when the land was threatened by the barbarian and the thug, when law and justice were in danger, and when the nation had
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon Regrets…
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News of the World Disinterred
Is there any reputation so putrid, so tarnished, that it cannot be further damaged? Gordon Brown excepted, I suspect not.
A boulder has been pushed away from the cave into which the poor old News of
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon regrets…
That in an act of callous disregard for your moral and ethical well being – she has fled the Raccoon coop for an entire week. Thoughtless of me, I know, but too late to let the dogs
Continue reading →Open Thread!
The staff are busy again behind the scenes doing stuff which means that we can’t serve you at the bar. Help yourself to the drinks, but please leave some cash on the
Continue reading →Archive Post – Callow Jarrow.
In the pub cellar
We’ve been a bit busy in the pub cellar sorting out all the beer barrels so please talk amongst yourselves for a while. Normal service will be resumed soon. Talk about
Continue reading →Anna Raccoon latest news (Updated)
We’ve heard from the Boss again.
Anna has been back in hospital for a couple of days for a follow-up, and should be back home early next week.
Anna’s tumour taken out a couple of weeks ago has been analysed in
Continue reading →Blood Sucking Bureaucracy
I’ve got the hang of the local accent now; I rattle confidently through the questions with them as they laboriously write out the answers in triplicate. Nom, prénom flies out in the correct back to front order;
Continue reading →I know your password
Odds are that I can guess your PIN in ten attempts.
It will be one of the following
- “1234” – I can’t be bothered to think about my password
- “0000” – I can’t even be bothered to count Continue reading →
Heart Stopping Moments.
If you have to have a heart attack, if you must, what better place to find yourself than in a roomful of cardiac surgeons? Not in Rochdale, no Siree.
Not
Continue reading →Dordogne Angst Unlimited.
This nightmare that I had
woke up in the hospital suite
And thought “my, this is worse than bad”
just where on earth did I meet
That chick with whom I share this room?
Champagne’s inappropriate
right now and so are those balloons
got no cause
Raccoongate? No way, José!
Hello my darlings! It’s been an eventful week. Action packed as they say, and Ms Raccoon has a fight on her hands; fear not, we will win.
So, pour yourself a drink, make it a double;
Continue reading →Very Short Parish Notice
Parish Notice
For the next couple of weeks SadButMadLad and me will be handling some of the site admin, working with the other contributors.
Roughly, SadButMadLad is handling site admin issues, and I’m dealing
Continue reading →Covert Recording accepted in Evidence by Appeal Court
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Caption contest – Advertising Ewe-turns.
I can see this catching on – imagine the M40 running through the Labour strongholds in the Rhonda Valley, lined with bleating manifesto promises. Politicians really will be able to eat their words once the count is
Continue reading →Bugging Bugarach.
Life as the Maire of a small French commune can be onerous. You are a self contained one-man social services department, with responsibility for the welfare of all the inhabitants. An adult literacy department, with responsibility for
Continue reading →Fat Boy Fiction.
One of the failings of the European Union is in its attempt to convince us that we are all the same, just human beings. We are not – and nothing divides us more than our sense of
Continue reading →Out Damn Wart!
A SECURITY guard from South Yorkshire shot himself in the hand to try to remove a wart from his finger.
No point in aiming at his foot when the wart was on his finger, was
Continue reading →Disinterring Old Arguments.
I make no apologies for keeping the corpse of the euthanasia/assisted suicide argument hanging around the bar today; if the stench is unpleasant and disagreeable to you, so be it. It’ll be your stench one day, you can’t live
Continue reading →The Right to put your family through Hell?
I freely admit I didn’t watch the Terry Pratchett documentary on the Right to Die. At the last minute I voted in favour of a quiet glass of wine with Mr G in the setting sun. It
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