A London Night Out!
The annual old boys’ piss up in London went off without incident last night, in fact it was such a success we even narrowly avoided a kebab and “one for the road” in Basingstoke’s premier hot spot, the throbbing disco bar, Pure. One thing that did hit home last night, in fact, there were two things actually, firstly, my capacity for alcohol is now beginning to border on embarrassing and secondly, it appears that no one has told the ...
It’s Never Too Cold to Snow!
Us Brits have a real fascination with the white stuff that graces our temperate shores for a couple of days a year each winter; Facebook was full of comments this morning saying things like "Snow", "OMG it's Snowing" and "Snowing outside!!!" It appeared to be that everyone temporarily forgot how inane these comments were as the excitement of a pitiful flurry of the white stuff got the better of all rational thinking. It's understandable ...
Thirty Years of “The Gift”
A friend of mine sent me an email earlier today with a couple links from a Radio 4 programme called Mastertapes, interviews with Paul Weller followed by a question and answer session about the final Jam album The Gift, which was released in the Spring of 1982 to mixed reviews from fans more used to a lead and bass guitar and a set of drums accompanied by raw and aggressive anti-establishment vocals. Paul Weller had license to experiment ...
Beating the Misery of Divorce!
One of the key aspects of being divorced is that when it happens to someone you know, you have to expect them to come to you for advice, it comes with the territory as it is natural for an individual to seek solace from someone who has been through it and arrived out of the other side. I don’t actually mind to be honest, it is all a distant memory for me now, but offering advice to someone through the early stages of this bereavement ...
What’s Your Worst Ever Song?
As a follow up to my favourite ever song list that was compiled for my eldest son and anyone else who was interested, I thought what would be far more entertaining would be a WORST ever song list, an eclectic mix of spine tingling, vomit inducing dross that will have you all sprinting for the sick bucket or simply staving in your computer with your right boot before remorsefully handing over five hundred quid to a care in the community teenager ...