I registered my monthly tax payment to the Inland Revenue a day late last month and got a patronising letter yesterday for my trouble. As Diane Porter, Brian Keane and Karen Langer will recall (or perhaps not) we got stupidly pissed on Diane's birthday on Wednesday 18th of April and when I tried to do the monthly calculation the next day, such was the extent of my hangover, I came up with a different figure every time my shaking hands touched ...
Since living on my own during the last four years or so, I have found that the Holy Grail in my life is the discovery of a vacuum cleaner that actually carries out the task its elaborate brand name gives it. Of course, I know as well as anyone that the simple solution to vacuum cleaning is to go out and spend over three hundred pounds on a Dyson, but because I live in a modest two bedroom house, it would feel a bit like buying a Ferrari and ...
For the last few days I have been battling against a tidal wave of depression that is about to engulf me. After weeks of desperately staying stoical whilst searching five day weather forecasts in pursuit of anything resembling a warm dry day, I have now caved in and given up. Two weeks after the start of the cricket season our ground at Oakley resembles the Somme, remaining totally unused, with this weekends fixtures at all age levels already ...
Despite what I imagine is a very comfortable lifestyle, courtesy of years in football and the £2.5m a year contract he is about to sign, I can't help but feel a bit sorry for what Roy Hodgson is about to endure after agreeing to become the new manager of the English national football side ahead of the "Proletarians choice" Harry Redknapp.
If it was not enough of an ordeal trying to manage the deluded and self pitying red side of Liverpool ...
Broughton village hall hosted the joint birthdays of Brian and Vicky on Saturday night and the order of the evening was to dress up as someone from a particular decade, with Diane and I choosing the 1960's. The fancy dress turn out must have been ninety nine per cent and some of the outfits were both fantastic and hilarious, it really was a great evening to remember. The guy doing the disco commented afterwards that he had never had such a full ...