There is a tired old saying that suggests that by adding variety, the spice of life is enhanced and I guess that by visiting the home of Basingstoke Town FC one day and going to the FA Cup Final at Wembley the next, is a fine example.
My trip to the Camrose on Friday evening was actually an invite to a football club fund raiser from some friends I have cobbled together in my 20 years or so in Basingstoke, with the star turn of the evening ...
I was speaking to a chap I know the other day and he was telling me, as a land owner, how shocked he was at the subsidies he was able to claim for doing absolutely nothing. It may seem unusual for a land owner to admit such a thing but as with all walks of life, tarring with the same brush is in my opinion, a bit ignorant. Judge people as you get to know them is my motto.
Anyway, this bizarre admission almost seemed like a cry for help from ...
One of the most startling things that I have heard during the election campaign is how many people don't really know who they will vote for in May.
The problem the opposition (Labour) will have to face is that floating voters tend to get scared when push comes to shove and ultimately, they opt for whomever Rupert Murdoch, The Mail, The Express or The Telegraph tells them to vote for. Fear will be used as a powerful tool as history shows ...
One of the things I have found whilst running the indoor cricket centre this winter, is that I am really quick to judge people as they approach me when I am working behind the bar.
On Sunday, I have had three classic cases in point, firstly when a woman came in and haughtily asked if she could have two coffees and as I was preparing them said..."Could you make it quick and put a quarter of a t-spoon of sugar in one?"
"Oh why don't you ...
For a forty something bloke who likes nothing better than to vent his spleen with the written word, this week has been an utter classic of our time.
Not content with championing a man dismissed by the BBC for a sustained verbal and physical assault on a junior employee, we then had people on the Radio discussing counselling for children who found the departure of a kid from a pop band just too traumatic to take.
I don't know what kids in ...
