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A New Look For the Blog and a Bit of Circuit Training
Before I start dealing with the tens of thousands of complaints about the new look of my Blog, I wish to explain that like the producers of my main Internet viewing rival, Facebook, I have changed my format for the better, whether you like it or not. Now, before you start penning your letter of complaint, scroll your mouse to the top left of your ...
The Peaks and Troughs of a Funny Old World
I received a phone call last night from an old friend who I haven’t spoken to for some time. The last time I chatted to him life was not so great, a combination of family bereavements and squabbles had been spiced up by a heady cocktail of job dissatisfaction and general stress in his life. To hear that changes in employment had coincided with an upturn in finances ...
Another Week Full of Tales of the (Un)expected
Before I start today's blog, here is a quick mention for Mrs Ward from Tadley, Hampshire. Mrs Ward (age witheld out of politeness) made a mild complaint to her daughter Alison in Australia that the new black background and white lettering on this blog had caused her to abandon her readership. As someone who prides himself on customer service, you will ...
The Ghosts of Cable Street
It is unusual for me to do blogs in successive days, but my fascination with the Battle of Cable Street has got me writing again as today is the 75th anniversary of that pivotal day in East London, 1936. I have learnt about Cable Street by luck really, through a band I was introduced to named The Men They Couldn’t Hang who sang a song called the Ghosts of ...
Back Down to Sunny Cornwall
Harry and I made the trip back down to Cornwall to retrieve my luggage at the weekend on what, most of you will be aware was the hottest October weekend on record. It was a weekend where Cornwall flipped back to mid July...well, actually I am wrong there, because if it had flipped back to mid July, it would have been like mid October, that’s how arse about face the ...