So: the surgeons cast me forth back into the hurley-burley. The after-effects of the op were not too bad: little discomfort except that the bowel seemed to have become two: not surprising, really, as, in fact, it had. The main bit still merrily churned away with its peristalsis, but the… Continue reading
As I’ve said frequently before: It’s been a funny old year… I am rapidly approaching the age where the NHS tend to think that you’re past it and delete you from their various bodily monitoring programmes, so I was, in fact, quite surprised when the little ‘shit test’ package dropped… Continue reading
Happy days are here again… 1: The gov’mint… Such as it is. ‘Never in the field of human politics has so much been fucked up by so few in such a short time…’ After the Johnson Sleaze Years we had the ‘Truss me I’m a politician’ shortest premiership (and biggest… Continue reading
Looking back over the last eighteen months makes me realise how dangerous it is to say things like ‘It would be hard to cause more damage than three and a half years of uncertainty and doom-saying…’… Coronavirus did that without even trying. Of course, it had help: the Government’s rather… Continue reading
Happy new year to my reader and, according to some, Happy New Decade: but I’m not so sure. After all: There never was a year 0: see multitudinous arguments about the Millennium! Maybe the new decade doesn’t begin until Jan 1st 2021… Why should this decade (or year) be any… Continue reading
Brexit, of course. The Brexiteers drone on about the ‘will of the people’ while the Remoaners grumble about the ‘damage’… It would be hard to cause more damage than three and a half years of uncertainty and doom-saying… The ‘Will…’ argument is, in my opinion, entirely spurious. OK, so (very)… Continue reading
God: I hate the Internet. Especially the arrogant f*ck*rs who claim to provide a service… Until very recently, this blog (as well as several others) was hosted by an organisation called ‘lifetime hosting’. mainly because it was cheap: a one-off payment for (as the name implies) a lifetime of hosting. … Continue reading
So: a couple of weeks have passed and I’ve reflected on my attitude to New Yorkers… And decided to stick with my original analysis! The poisonous harridan at the ‘Broadway venue’ is still the worst example, but apocryphal reports from others tend to back up my opinion about Americans in… Continue reading
So: I’ve been there and don’t feel the need to ever return. However, as a married man, I’m not actually ‘Mistress of my own fortune’ in this matter… It was… interesting. To see for myself some of those places I’ve only ever seen depicted through the distorting lens of the… Continue reading
It’s been, as they say, a ‘funny old year’ (so far). It started off miserable, cold and wet, became hot and dry for weeks and weeks, and now has turned back to more typically British summer weather (i.e. cool and damp). Once more, the threat of imposing a hosepipe ban… Continue reading