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Thursday, 27 June 2019

Joe Bitter writes: the Golden Goose has flown

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Well, the golden goose has fucked off. The puzzles work is no more. For the past ten years I have been earning extra from the Daily Mail b...
Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Four short videos to keep the pot boiling . . .

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One of the little things I enjoy doing is taking a track I like, then hunting down images to add to the music to make a short video. Here ...
Sunday, 2 June 2019

Want to do something instead of frittering away your life? Read. And don’t ever allow yourself to be persuaded that running around like a blue-arsed fly is actually ‘doing’ anything. When something is ‘done’ you need more than a pile of shopping to prove it

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I should imagine it happens to everyone every so often, but for some reason I have been feeling very restless for these past few days and ab...
Thursday, 16 May 2019

The road to salvation if you want to provide astonishing party small talk, impress those dumb enough to be impressed and want to cut a dash: read The Economist. (NB You won’t find it in doctors’ or dentists’ waiting rooms and you’ll have to buy it but there’s a downside to most things, eh?)

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For several years in the 1980s and 1990s I was rather impressed by my younger brother’s knowledge - and not just his general knowledge, but ...
Monday, 29 April 2019

Well, crims in the family! I knew about the spy - well, the sort of spy - but crims eh! An everyday folk of country folk, one of whom apparently was not above skinning turds

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That, of course, is a huge exaggeration, but what would one of my posts be without a least one bucketful of bullshit. The question is rhetor...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

A few more piccies for the entertainment of those who like eating but don’t spend an inordinate amount of time agonising over ‘what that meal just meant’

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If you like the pictures I published in my previous post , here are a few more. They are again chosen at random, and I repeat that there is ...
Tuesday, 23 April 2019

A few piccies to help you keep your pecker up. No mention of Brexit in this entry, by they way, and I am probably even more relieved than you are

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A friend, B (and, yes, B you are B) commented just the other day that he wished I would publish my blog entries ‘by topic’. Well, the more I...
Sunday, 7 April 2019

Two developments at home and the Brexit farce goes on (although it might conclude a week today)

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For a blog which has its roots in a diary I kept for about 15 years - handwritten at that - I’ve surprised myself by not mentioning two deve...
Friday, 8 March 2019

Don’t do this, kids, ever! It’s the road to ruin, will bring you nothing but grief, ruin your eyesight and quite possibly reverse Brexit (or something — subs please check). So don’t do what I am about to do. Ever!

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Well, I trust the headline caught your eye and drew you in, but this has nothing to do with Brexit, yet another bloody heart attack, anothe...