Must dig out my copy of Awopbopaloobo(etc) for another look. As regards My White Bicycle, I never buy anyone a book I wouldn’t want to read myself, so I got it for my brother in law for his birthday. He […]

Gallivanting, they used to call it. What young princes have done since the dawn of time. Let’s cut the lad a bit of slack.
Says nobody..

A lot of people complain about high dental charges, but, as far as I’m concerned, if I trained for years to be qualified, then spent the rest of my working life rooting around in people’s disgusting mouths, I’d […]

Should Andrew take a step back from public life, one thing concerns me. Given his role as a “Trade Ambassador”, how will we manage without his lifelong experience of commerce, industry and negotiation in the […]

Am I alone in having a place in my heart for Shania Twain?

Guy Fawkes appears to be being forgotten just when we need to commemorate his memory more than ever.

Cilla Black?

Easy choice for drummer. You could always have Buddy Rich as back up.

“You even called our son Barnstoneworth”
“He’s got a middle name!”
“Yes, United”

Filmed round our way. My wedding reception was held at the house where the wealthy scrap metal merchant lived.

Aye lad. ‘appen.

Wife: N Irish ; Irish Passport
Son ; Yorkshire but, thanks to the above has an Irish Passport (when he went to Austin Tx for a few months he reckoned, quite rightly that the Irish have upset far fewer people […]

You’ll never see a drayman drinking straight out of the bottle. He should know what it’s like in the storage area of a pub.

He had no redeeming features, but you have to feel a degree of sympathy for someone who had to join Hawkwind for financial reasons.

I’ll save my prayers for the unfortunate people looking after him.

A stick of uncooked rhubarb, dipped into a paper bag with a few spoons of sugar in it.

“What did you have for school dinner?”, my grandson was asked. “Ice cream with bread round it”, he replied.
Turns out it was arctic roll.

I’m sure Philips had hoped they’d get more mileage out of the cd than they have.

He fought his demons.