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Sunday, 29 July 2012

Official: Vladimir Putin doesn't like punk songs. And there was MS, a sweet, sweet girl who I was too stupid to appreciate. And in some obscure way Evelyn Waugh lives!

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Pussy Riot are a Russian feminist punk band. So far, so unimaginative. On a scale of 0 to 10 of original names, Punk Riot don’t even registe...
Friday, 27 July 2012

Are we (were we) in for another bout of expensive Olympic kitsch? I rather think we are (were). And Apple shareholders are disappointed with record profit. Corrupt fuckers, I say. And - sorry - but another teensy bit about the bloody euro: just how patient are the Germans? Finally, I discover Thin Lizzy (about 60 years too late)

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Now that I seem to have got back into my stride writing this blog after a rather embarrassed few weeks when I gave it a rest until a felt ab...
Thursday, 26 July 2012

In which I make a confession, hang my head in shame and pray my wife doesn't discover my appalling acts

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This entry is only to be read on the strict understanding that my wife is not informed of its contents. I shall not, however, be detailing s...
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Sunday, 22 July 2012

In which I let my hair down a little, go out on a limb and offer a little advice (but the cheek of it)

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The usual: I'm driving up to London on a Sunday morning, with nothing else to do but keep my eye on the road, and I think of all kinds o...
Saturday, 21 July 2012

Lesson for today: Never Trust A Grown-up, especially if you elected him or her or they deal in money. The chances are he and she find it impossible to distinguish between their arse and their elbow

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Let me take you back to your childhood, to the days when there were still ‘grown-ups’. These ‘grown-ups’ were initially like gods: when you ...
Thursday, 19 July 2012

The joy of stripping to the altogether in a French provincial airport just to convince whoever needs to know you are not Muslim, Jewish, Syrian, Christian, Irish or otherwise using a handy stick of Semtex to separate your arse from the rest of your body with the intent on destabilising everything for everyone for ever. And have you heard about Romania and Hungary? So have I

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Merignac airport, Bordeaux. Well, after queuing most of the morning just to join another queue for another queue, surviving the security ch...
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

More music, guitars, saints who don't get burnt, free wine and an artist who (in my very uninformed view) is something of a nine-bob note

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Illats, SW France It was off to St Emilion on Monday to inspect the world’s largest underground cathedral, in fact, probably the world’s on...
Sunday, 15 July 2012

Forget your soaps, try Mad Men

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Many years ago, I was once drawn into watching Emmerdale and from personal experience I know the addiction of soaps. I got out of that one a...
Saturday, 14 July 2012

Back in France for a week for some great music

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Illats, sout-west France. In France for a week which, as this is the third year running, I might well now call my annual visit to eat well ...
Thursday, 12 July 2012

Will someone please save me from all this London 2012 bollocks? A shot in the back of the neck would do the trick

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I hope I am not the only one utterly underwhelmed by the coming Olympic Games 2012 in London. Perhaps I’m now just a grizzled old whingeing ...