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My Computer is Back – So Am I
I am sure that it will be with a mixture of relief, heady excitement and uncontrollable joy, that you, my Blog readers, via email, will once again be able to receive confirmation of my updated posts. A lot has happened since June and as a consequence, I am back in Basingstoke (Beggarwood) in a bachelor pad with a balcony that features stunning views that stretch from Kingsclere, across Oakley and it's famous cricket club, on to the throbbing ...
Farewell James Alexander Gordon
I don't know what it is about me at the moment, but whenever I hear about death or demise of someone linked to my life, I become overwhelmed by irrational nostalgia and a sense loss. Maybe it is a case of getting closer to the grave that make me more emotional about such things? So when, yesterday, I learnt of the death of BBC Radio's classified football results reporter, James Alexander Gordon, I felt like another part of my youth had died, ...
Cliff – Is This the End of the Righteous One?
A few weeks ago when I was in Turkey, my friend Kate and I got chatting to a lady from North London and when the talk of all these child abuse cases inevitably came up in the conversation, she claimed to be close to a legal team who were in the process of building up a case against child of God, Cliff Richard. In fact she didn’t say that, she said it was 73 year old God bothering pop star who was currently out of the country, so neither ...
The Inbetweeners – Great Family Fun..If You Have Teenagers
I have to say that The Inbetweeners, introduced to me by my teenage sons a few years back, was the funniest sitcom I have witnessed since the 2001 series of ‘The Office’ which is also set to become a movie sometime soon. Because the series was about sixth form college, it’s shelf life was not long, but the much anticipated 2011 movie didn’t disappoint; a hilarious boys holiday in Malia that demonstrated and joyfully reminded us blokes ...
Has Everyone Had Enough of Israel?
Before the barbaric Lebanon incursion and the mass migration and illegal settlement of Jews from places such as Russia in the 1990’s, Israel, a state created as a homeland (in 1947) for persecuted Jews, received almost total Western support in their battles with Arabs as they sought to maintain their new homeland. However, a UK poll last week suggested that just 15% of British people sympathise with Israeli aggression and the treatment of ...