I think it’s astonishing. It’s awe inspiring. All space travel is. We sit and watch footage of these individuals, calm and assured in themselves and their equipment. And you have to force yourself to rea […]

Metallica Enter Cheeky Nothing Cheeky Matters Sad But Cheeky

Thin Lizzy Still in Love With Cheeky The Boys Are Cheeky in Town

Led Zep; Over The Cheeks and Fart Away Four Cheeks Cheeky Mountain Hop

*applauds*

For years or at least since his re-election I’ve been waiting for the news report of his natural death. I don’t now. I want the bastard alive and relatively cognisant to face some style of retribution. Loo […]

Slough. I mean, fucking hell. The name. It means ‘a swamp’ or ‘ a lack of progress’. How in hell has that name endured? Slough. Even the word looks awful. I don’t mean to diss it. It could be as pos […]

We have a Slough postcode. Despite living 15 minutes away by train. *seethes*

Northumberland, just. Right on the very southern lip as it merges into the conurbation of Newcastle. The centre of the Toon was a 20 minute bus ride. The bleak, beautiful heart of Northumberland was a just […]

When we all turned 30 one of our school year arranged one. It was something of a sysiphean task for her given that we quite far flung by that time. Most of us turned up though. Me in tow with my best pal from […]

I know where you’re coming from. What I mean is that it would be dangerous folly to give up on or circumvent the ‘system’. It’s worked for 250 years. Admittedly without such a fucking nasty stupid maniac in the […]

As much as I hate him and as much as I would love to see a million peaceful citizens process down Pennsylvania Avenue carrying torches on their way to defenestrate him, or the young marine in dress uniform that […]

Love his stuff. I’m currently re-reading his ‘Blood, Tears and Folly’ – his analysis of the Second World War. No-one in authority or of senior rank is spared some well expressed criticism. And, given that he wa […]

Farrrkkk! I genuinely thought that’s who it was when I first read the post a few days ago but very obviously did nothing about it Well done, Diddley.

Department S is all over YouTube as well. Another Dennis Spooner and Monty Bergman attempt to break into American tv. Endearing stuff. Opening stock footage of Paris or Milan or Geneva with the rest shot on […]

Pob!

Love this guy. Pun intended. I touched him once. At a blues fest at Crystal Palace in the early ‘90’s. He was doing an end of set long guitar lead audience walk around and he brushed past me mid […]

On a tangent, an old work colleague of mine, a hugely keen and frustrated amateur thespian, used to play a game of ‘Miscasting’ Very silly. We topped it off and ended the game by casting Norman Wisdom as Saruman.

I’m the same. Two old school pals,and then a firm dozen or so from my first few years in London. When we were young and daft. We’ve all moved on and away from each other physically, some to different cou […]