105 posts, April 2020 to August 2024.
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Freak out time. Another birthday is looming and it is a scary zero one. There are many people that do not like the aging process but for me it is really painful. Every year I find it so and especially so every ten years. I cannot identify with the number and it freaks me out to…
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Yesterday was the bearer of the saddest news and I don’t need to explain what that was. I am not pro or anti Royals myself but like everyone I am saddened by her passing. I was born well into her reign and the queen has always been there in the background. I am not grief…
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“I think I’ll have apple and pear. No, make that strawberry and banana. No, I know, spearmint and liquorice.”
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It has been one of those nights. I actually went to bed late, 1am, and was still awake at 2 am when believe it or not someone rang my buzzer. It was only a couple of quick buzzes and it was not repeated so I didn’t answer. The deed was done though – no sleep for me. I have been…
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Thirty years of the Premier League and officially the worst season for the red half of Manchester. It made me wonder about a comparison of the first PL league team that won the inaugural season and the bunch of misfits we have now.
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So here I am just back from the hospital, sitting here trying to get comfortable with a back sore with needle jabs. It is probably the fifth procedure I have had on my back in say 7 years with varying success but no permanency. Back pain seems to be an ever present corollary to…
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Good FridayGood FridayI’ve written my whole life throughGood FridayGood Friday to you.
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If I had a dog it would have to be a Melon Collie, especially at this time of year heading to another ticking over of the clock. Time to review my standing in the writing world as my attack on Twitter – whilst providing humour to little clusters of people with my rapier wit – is…
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First there was ‘favorgate’ and today we had ‘humorgate’ or it may be better termed ‘humorlessgate’ as once again American spelling is the talk of the Wordle World. There are a lot of tweets imploring Wordle not to use US spelling because there are lots of people outside the…
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I thought it was a typo at first. I was looking in the TV guide and saw that the same film was printed below the one I had been looking at. Then I noticed that the channel was running the same film continually back to back for the whole day. What madness was this? I decided to…
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No, I don’t mean the school exam. It was a question on Twitter yesterday. What is the film you have watched 7+ times? Now that is a hard question because there is always going to be more than one. Where does one begin on such a quest? The DVD collection must be the starting…
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I needed to do a quick post to check if my link with Facebook is now working but I didn’t have a Scooby Doo what to write about. So how about Scooby Doo?
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