I took the Christmas decorations down today, as I could not
really see the point in hanging on to the festive season for much longer.
I feel a strange feeling of sadness when it comes to removing
decorations. It is one that kind of reminds me of packing away a tent after a sodden
week of camping in Swanage. I should be glad it is all over but part of me wishes
it wasn’t.
The end of the Christmas is hardly enhanced by the grey dank
wea...
The headline on BBC last night was about the activity of a company called Seaborne Freight. It has been given just shy of £14 million of a £100 million contingency plan to provide freight services in the event of a 'No Deal' Brexit.
The stand out concern here appears to be that Seaborne were given the money without a tender process...oh and they don't have any ferries. They don’t have any money or assets either, but that's just a techni...
I don’t know if it is just me, but Christmas television seems to get less inspired every year. After a couple of days of illness followed by Christmas Day with two of us home alone before an offspring invasion, it was an ideal time to be a couch potato.
However, the mainstream channels seem to cater for fucking idiots and I found myself digging around iPlayer or old comedy channels for anything remotely worth watching. 'Only Fools and ...
I thought I would take a quick opportunity, amongst the obligatory last-minute panic stations, to wish everyone who reads this blog a Happy Christmas.
What a year it has been, with the nation pretty much broken, apart from a brief few weeks when the England football team, a modern looking breath of fresh air, performed better than expected but came up just short of making an unprecedented World Cup Final.
Sadly, Brexit will continue to ...
What a bonkers week that was. Misogyny, Drones, Mourinho’s sacking, Putin demanding that democracy should not be interfered with (he did, honestly) and Trump losing yet more of his staff, presumably another one who has worked out he is mad as fuck.
How on earth would you cope with that lot as a satirist? It must be absolute carnage in the offices of Private Eye as these publications have to be right on the money with current affairs. How do ...
