A Great Sporting Weekend as Dunblane…I Mean GB, Win the Davis Cup!
On the face of it, it has been a great sporting weekend, what with a new world boxing champion, Englishman, Jamie Vardy, breaking a Premier League scoring record, and of course, Great Britain winning the Davis Cup for the first time since it snowed every Christmas and everyone in our nation had rosy cheeks and loved nothing more than beating the evil Hun in wars in between having a picnic with Cissy by a glistening trout stream. I must admit, ...
Learning New Things Every Day!
They say that in life (whoever 'they' are?) you can, no matter your age, never stop learning and that there are new things to learn every day. This is certainly the case with me, as I have learnt several things in the last week that were previously unknown to me. For starters, I have learnt that a puppy has no concept of the old adage that 'you never shit on your own doorstep'. Well mine hasn't anyway, laying a walnut whip on my ...
Another Birthday and a New Pet!
Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who took the effort to wish me happy birthday yesterday, the powers of social media made it possible to feel at least a little bit special on another day towards an inexorable decline into nylon elasticated slacks. However, if there is one good thing about the ageing process, it is the ability to lose track of advancing years, and for some reason, during the last year, I have assumed I have been 48 ...
Paris – The Tears, Hypocrisy and Fears
When you look and listen to the journalists on the more moderate television news organisations, the one thing that stands out is how they are struggling to comprehend the events in Paris on Friday evening. Personally, I keep trying to look deeper in to it all rather than getting embroiled in emotional knee-jerk responses, because the easy thing to do is demand retaliation and start quoting 20th-century politicians with a lust for tyrannical ...
FIFA Executive Allegedly Caught in Non-Corruption Scandal
A junior FIFA executive has allegedly been accused of failing to accept bribes to influence the World Cup bidding process for the forthcoming 2018 and 2022 tournaments in Russia and Qatar. The executive who has not yet been named for legal reasons, is alleged to have turned down a six figure sum to influence hotel accommodation in the South Africa 2010 World Cup as well as rejecting a gold watch that was offered as a gift by a mystery Eastern ...