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Saturday, 23 September 2017

Killing time with a gratuitous kick at vino-loving francophiles

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Bordeaux airport, Merignac More time to kill, so as I am increasingly doing and lacking anyone to talk at, I have decided to post yet anot...
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Tuesday, 19 September 2017

An afternoon in Langon drinking pastis, smoking a cigar and chasing down a viable wifi connection (as you do)

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I am sitting outside a café in Place J. David (and I have no idea who he is was) in a town called Langon in the Gironde, South-West Frace, d...
Sunday, 17 September 2017

And an entry pretty much in keeping with the title of this blog, in which I fly in a plane, wonder what planet Jean Claude Juncker is on as yet again he bangs on about ‘ever closer political union in the EU’, remember once more why it’s lethal for me to drink at lunchtimes and – well, nothing more really – BUT DON’T GIVE UP

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Illats, France. This is a late addition to this blog entry, but I am putting it here upfront, because the rest of this entry is so stupend...
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Sunday, 10 September 2017

Becker dead already? Good Lord, why didn’t anyone tell me? Oh, that Becker, not the Venezuelan basketball player. Really. Well, I suppose it’s got to happen to us all at some point. How old was he?

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Here’s a surprise: I and my peers, friends and colleagues are all reaching our four score and ten – or getting damn close - and one by one ‘...
Wednesday, 6 September 2017

A sigh of relief as we witness the political suicide Jacob Rees-Moog’s way – same-sex marriage and abortion are wrong. It’s not what the country feels, cos we are a little more (what?)

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Stopped off at my usual Wednesday evening haunt, The Brewers Arms, South Petherton, on my way home after quite literally working my bollocks...
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Wednesday, 23 August 2017

If you are going to waste time, might as well waste it like this: some of those one-offs I like and you might, too

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NB The soundfiles posted here no longer worked as the method I was using was wrecked by Google revamping its sites feature. So I have found ...
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Saturday, 19 August 2017

What’s this hang-up with ‘meaning’? Might it explain by Dylan was so slow to collect his Nobel Prize. I do think it might

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NB There are soundfiles in this entry which your browser might not be able to play. I don’t think Opera does well on that score. In that cas...
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

More snaps from the past, rescued from Guy's House, that old, old renovated 16th-century cottage none of us knows much about.

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I took a week off work last week and set about clearing what we call Guy’s House of all the shite that has accumulated there over since my f...
Sunday, 23 July 2017

Old farts and why they are best avoided (at any age)

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NB I’ve noticed when later reading through a blog entry I have posted that there are literals and that sometimes a thread of thought goes aw...
Friday, 21 July 2017

There can be no going back now (or at least not without looking extremely bloody stupid)

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Just under a month ago, I began digging myself a hole – and did so in the full knowledge of what I was doing - by publicly declaring in this...