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Game Over, Man

 Someone unkind once said that the Beatles were dying in the wrong order. I’m not sure there is ever a “right” order, but there’s a dark humour to it. It seems that fate has doing something similarly over 2016 and 2017. We seem to be losing the ones that we would really rather keep for…

A picture paints a thousand words?

  Or does it? The writer in me wants to argue. Surely we can do more with our words than a painter or a photographer can do with a single image. Then you see something like this:   And suddenly I am not so sure. Dang, but that’s good. That’s very good indeed. This photograph…

Losing a year

  An odd thing has happened. I think I may have mislaid a year. Has anyone seen 2016 lying around near here? I know that 2016 happened. We lost a lot of celebrities. There was more political upheaval than you could shake a ceremonial mace at. An Olympics happened, mostly under the shadow of drug accusations.…

The Riddle of Santa

  This one is for John. Happy birthday, son. I happened across a thing the other day. I don’t yet know if it’s a real thing or a made up thing. It’s just a thing. A quirky thing. And as you may know I like quirky things. It started with my son telling me a…

The Rime of the Ancient Floating Candles

A bizarre thing happened yesterday. I chanced upon a modern day Ancient Mariner. Maybe. Let me set the scene. I was at a lunchtime “do” with my beloved Mem and a room full of nice people. It was one of those functions where people dress up in their second-best bib and tucker and quaff a…

Manspluttering

  Apparently, our new Prime Minister doesn’t like mansplaining. This is when a man talks down to a woman by explaining something to her.   She doesn’t like it. Not one little bit. She will stamp her kitten heels if you try to do it. Remember, this is the Prime Minister who said: “If you…

The camera exorcism

A weird thing has happened. I don’t know if it is a miracle or a sad indictment of modern times. I think I have repaired my camera through spirit healing. Or an exorcism. Let me tell you the spooky tale. I have one of these things, known in the trade as a Sony RX100. It…

Some you loose

Forgive me, friends, for I have sinned. It has been way too long since my last blog and in the meantime I have been plucking the wings off butterflies. It all started with a football game. That’s “sawker” for those of you in red, white and blue still staring disbelieving at the television screen. Recently…

Bone

  Warning – today’s blog contains traces of smut. If that sort of thing offends you, you might want to look away now. There is one reference to “a boner”, an American term for … a very specific symptom of a happy chappy. But as that word is only used in this paragraph and you…

The wide and wobbling load

We saw a weird sight today. One of these … It was a swimming pool on a lorry. Or on a truck, if you don’t speak Brenglish. It gave me one of those blue pill/ red pill moments. A glitch in the matrix. Up to that point I had no idea that swimming pools arrived…