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
New year, new crisis – or, at least, a continuation (and escalation) of an old crisis. Big Don and Kim Jong-Un now engaged in a pissing contest about the size of their deterrants… Has no-one told them? It’s not size that’s important: it’s whether you’re psycho enough to use it!… Continue reading
So they’ve finally gone and done it: triggered article 50, that is. We’re on our way: where, nobody knows, least of all those people who voted ‘leave’. The comments that have been flying around from various people we know who voted out include ‘I didn’t realise it would take so… Continue reading
I blinked again… and another eight months had passed. It’s been an interesting time…! Unexpectedly, the UK threw its toys out of the pram and decided to leave the EU, citing ‘immigration’ as one of the principal (and principle?) gripes. All I can say is that, since we’re ALL immigrants… Continue reading
What is it with modern British society? While I admit that I am no angel, I do believe that, in general, I’m fairly easy going, so why is it that I now seem to be in dispute with both sets of neighbours? The first dispute started almost as soon as… Continue reading