A gear change

For those interested in such matters, tomorrow will see me playing with a slightly different set up.
Still in will be the ever-faithful US Fender Telecaster:

Staying in after a very successful first gig with it, the Digitech RP255:

But out will go the Peavey Classic 20 which I’ve used solidly for the past 9 years:

OK, so it’s [...]

Cheap beer

I was in Tesco today buying some ginger root.
They had an offer – spend £30 in store and get a 15×440ml pack of Carlsberg  lager for a fiver.
OK, it looks like Jason Button’s piss after a few laps of Chartres Cathedral (some amazing cobbles around that pile) and tastes like it too, but that’s remarkably [...]

Putting the twat back into politics

Far be it from me to come out in support of David ‘Bullingdon’ Cameron, but I thought this was actually rather amusing.
As for the BBC’s po-faced description of the word ‘twat’ as a 4 letter word…well, at least Call me Dave didn’t say ‘cunt’.

A right brewhaha

I like beer.
I like beer a lot.
I don’t know why but I just do.
I prefer the weaker brews, so, whether it’s an English-style bitter or a continental lager, about 3.5 to 4.5% ABV maximum usually does me, with 5% tops.
There’s a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I don’t like the taste of a great [...]

A burning issue

Thank fuck I didn’t take the government’s advice and paint my house white last month when it was issuing warnings about the heatwave we were all going to die from.
Luckily I made it through the week of sun we had, thanks to our wonderful health care professionals, and I’d like to think that I was [...]

Iain Dale, Esther Rantzen, 15 sheep and Nadine Dorries’ vomit

You might need one of these later
As regular visitors to this blog will be aware, I am not a member of either the Esther Rantzen or the Iain Dale fan club.
However, I have softened towards she of the teeth since Iain Dale has featured her in two recent and consecutive bitchfests entries on his blog [...]

Atheismus macht frei

Richard Dawkins – sucking a Werther’s Original – or something…*
I only caught the tail-end of a news story about this on the radio this morning but the excellent Spaghetti Factory blog filled in the gaps for me (and also raised some interesting pointers on how to really fuck up a child’s summer holiday).
I mean…what the [...]

Some blogging bollocks

Although Al Jahom’s excellent and very eclectic blog has been in my blogroll for a while, I’ve never actually given it the official bigging up that it deserves.
So, here goes – and cash is never refused, AJ…
Al Jahom’s blog has a great deal to recommend it: topical comment, great music, humour, pointy squirty cars, foul [...]

“How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic”

There was a time when you’d have to do something pretty fucking serious to bring social opprobium upon yourself.
I mean serious shit; like beating your wife, mugging an old lady for her pension or your kids getting into trouble.
Nowadays, however, it’s all changed and as far as I can see, you now have three new [...]

The usual Daily Mail dogwank

OK…back to some Old Skool Daily Mail bashing.
So, if you have a swear filter, plug the fucker in NOW because some shit’s about to fly.
If you haven’t got a swear filter and don’t like bad language, please fuck all the way off.
If you haven’t got a swear filter and you’re a Daily Mail reader then [...]