First Attempt at a Vlog – Spackman, The Troggs and Panes
This is my first ever attempt at a Vlog and believe me it is not easy and much harder than writing as you have to try to keep flowing whereas when you write, you can take a break and have a cup of tea. I have done this as an experiment after one of the lads at the cricket club told me it was the new form of blogging, so we'll just see how it goes. This one was inspired by looking into the details of a an ugly old building near where I live ...
Catherine Deneuve, #MeToo and Sexual Harassment!
I always thought that if any woman was to speak out against the #MeToo campaign that swept around the world in the light of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, she would be French. I don't know why to be honest; it is probably just a dubious stereotype I have seeded in my brain with regards the French and their attitude to sex. However tenuous my links to French women and liberal sexual abandon are, it was indeed a French woman, the actress, ...
January Crisis – Diets, Debts and NHS
The first week back at work after Christmas always features me listening to radio phone in shows where people are taking advice on debt and diets or bemoaning the demise of the National Health Service. It’s like Groundhog Day is the first week of January. At Christmas, I am led to believe, we spend too much money on presents and eat too much, so come New Year, we are fat and in debt, particularly if we were poor and in debt in the first ...
Bullshit Arguments and the Schengen System
I was in a little pub a while back where I was half involved in a conversation with people I vaguely knew, this being on the basis that I had said hello to them a few times before. The eldest guy then said..."Well, when it gets to the point you have no control over your own borders, it is time to leave!". "We have control of our borders though" said one of the fellow drinkers. "NO... WE...DO...NOT!" he replied "He's right" I piped ...
One Thousand up for Christmas!
I have just noticed that this is blog is number one thousand since I started writing for a hobby way back in 2008. That is a lot of blog posts but judging by the fact that they take roughly an hour to produce, I would need to write nine thousand more to become an expert at blogging. This figure is based on the theory that to become an expert at anything takes ten thousand hours of practice, whether it be sport, maths, chess, writing or ...