Equal opportunity vegetarianism

It’s been a productive morning – whilst Lady Shark painted one side of the door shutters, I finished off putting the wooden cladding around the openings of a couple of the Veluxes. Now lunch beckons, with a DVD after which seems a good way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon. We haven’t seen ‘Shoot ‘em [...]

100 Great Guitar Moments – #90 to 81

Time for another 10 in the list – an eclectic mix ranging from jazz through rock to psychedelia. The Shadows – The Savage: There’s nothing wrong with a simple job well done, but sometimes, musically, it can be a tad lacklustre. That’s how I normally feel about the Shadows, but this track is an exception. [...]

Sorry…

…but if anyone is now sitting down knackered from giving the cat a good kicking, shouting at the TV or just out of sheer disappointment – after hearing the news that there is to be no referendum on whether the UK stays in the EU – you’ve made all that effort for nothing.     [...]

How to make a mountain out of a molehill #36923

    Take one (1) golliwog… a ”review has been carried out at the highest level”. For fuck’s sake…

Ice cold for Alec

OK, I may know fuck-all about football, but I’m sure I’m not the only non-fan to be intrigued by Man U’s recent 6-1 drubbing by local rivals Man City. For a team that’s just won 19 straight home games, to be trounced so comprehensively at home isn’t as much humilation as an utter public buttfucking [...]

Gaddafi and Mail hypocrisy

Gaddafi is dead. On the face of it, it looks as if he was executed shortly after being dragged from the storm drain which was his final shelter. How do I feel about the manner in which he was killed? Not much really. He was a despotic bastard who seemed vaguely mad at times and [...]

Drink! Don’t drink! Drink!

  More mixed messages from the usual suspects in the drive to control how much people drink. Here’s the latest fucktarded advice: A night of drinking should be followed by two or three alcohol-free days, doctors have advised. The liver needs time to recover if people are consuming more than just a small alcoholic drink, [...]

Lunch in Tahiti

A good morning’s digging has restored me to a far less jaded state than I’ve been in since yesterday. The cause of this was yesterday’s visit to this area’s best-kept secret when it comes to restaurants – the ‘Tahiti’ at Renazé.     It’s an unpreposessing place from the outside but it’s surprisingly pleasant and [...]

This blogging lark

Blogging – like football – is a funny old game. I dunno…you can spend fucking ages writing an article and then you end up with very few views and no comments. Then again, you can dash off a piece in a couple of minutes and find it’s your top post of the day and you [...]

Not enough cooks

I’ve long been a ‘Private Eye’ fan and subscriber, so when I saw that its current editor Ian ‘Spud’ Hislop was the guest on BBC1’s usually execrable ‘The One Show’ tonight, I tuned in. Of course, as the show is a vehicle for plugging celebrities’ latest books/records/films/TV series/whathaveyou, it came as no surprise to hear [...]