I Was looking through a book Harry owns the other day called The Guinness Book of Hit Singles, and I came across Going Underground by The Jam. Alongside the song it gives you all the detail about highest chart position, number of weeks in chart and so on, but what staggered me the most was that it was fully 30 years ago this week when I shuffled in to Woolworth's in Basingstoke with my mate Hutch, to spend my pocket money doing my bit to ensure ...
TV hit the heights of un-funniness this week with two programmes that have defied all logic with their lack of humour. Firstly we had Life Of Riley which is now, inexplicably, on it's second series. Life of Riley is about two middle class families struggling to merge their dysfunctional families, with Maddy (Caroline Quentin) in particular finding life more difficult than imagined, stumbling over unpacked boxes, deciding what paint to buy, ...
I can't say that I was deeply saddened by 'Arry Carpenter's peaceful death yesterday, how can you be sad about someone who has dies at 84 after a fantastic life? However 'Arry's death did bring back poignant memories of my childhood addicted to sport of any kind, be it those muddy floodlit football highlights on Sportsnight that my parents would reluctantly let me stay up and watch on Wednesdays, Wimbledon, The British Open, Grandstand, and of ...
I had a message of Friday from a chap called Will King (founder of King of Shaves) regarding my recent Blogs on the various qualities and price of Razors. Now you have to be impressed with that, K.O.S is a company on the money with their marketing and research. Will is sending me the new King of Shaves Azor M with V2 Cartridge which sounds to me, like an incredibly fast car. I can almost hear that lovable prick Jeremy Clarkson....."Introducing ...
The grandly titled "King of Shaves" razor has turned out to be something of a disappointment, more like "The 26th In Line To The Throne of Shaves" if truth be known (though their shaving oil is very good). It didn't remove the first layer of skin like the Sainsbury's Potato Peeler, but I must say, it is not in the same league as Gillette (The best a man can get). I am yet to try Wilkinson Sword, but it looks like, rather sadly, I am going to ...