Jim Webster's Blog, page 48

Send for Lauderdale!

There are certain names that inspire confidence. Imagine the scene. Into the midst of the well padded armchairs the news seeps like sewage into a reservoir. Rumour, on winged feet, flits from chair to chair, and the room gradually becomes still. Men who have kedged gunboats off the sandbanks in rivers we will not name, …

Serfdom

You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90... It’s a funny old world. You really have to be careful what you read. As it was I picked up a …

Something wicked this way comes?

Funny old world, just glad I���m not an opinion pollster. But there again, who tells them how they���re going to vote? The one time I was asked I just asked him if he believed in a secret ballot. When he said ���Yes��� I replied, ���And so do I.��� He must have been young because he���d …

Working for the Bank?

Somehow bank holidays have always rather passed me by. Being self employed all my life they were an irrelevance and when I employed people they were a damned nuisance. I remember one morning getting into the house after finally finishing morning milking. Because of electrical problems I’d managed to finish milking by the simple expedient …

Working for the Bank? ��

Somehow bank holidays have always rather passed me by. Being self employed all my life they were an irrelevance and when I employed people they were a damned nuisance. I remember one morning getting into the house after finally finishing morning milking. Because of electrical problems I���d managed to finish milking by the simple expedient …

Tek care, Lambs ont road.

I was going to call this piece ���dogging���, because that���s what it���s about but I decided to approach things from a somewhat different angle. Way back I remember somebody writing that they were walking in the countryside and could see in the distance somebody ploughing. As they walked along the path that ran beside the …

The importance of po-faced critics

Is it just me, but whenever I hear a spokesman from ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) on the radio I get this urge to dash out and buy a packet of twenty cigarettes! And I���ve never smoked and don���t intend to. It was the same with the latest comments somebody made about rugby. Somebody …

After the deluge

So, we���ve three-hundred and ninety something lambed, and five left to lamb. They could spin it out over the next three or four weeks so there isn���t the sense of driving urgency. But what about the rest? What happens to those who have lambed. Let us assume that we take the standard ���set��� of one …

There ain’t no justice any more?

Tricky one this, what’s Justice and where is it? It’s something I’ve thought about, on and off, for a lot of years. I even wrote a story, Justice 4.1, about it. Yes it’s Sci-Fi and yes it’s an adventure story. But the question that has to be faced is Justice and how to make sure …

There ain���t no justice any more?

Tricky one this, what���s Justice and where is it? It���s something I���ve thought about, on and off, for a lot of years. I even wrote a story, Justice 4.1, about it. Yes it���s Sci-Fi and yes it���s an adventure story. But the question that has to be faced is Justice and how to make sure …