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Yearly Archives: 2006
Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Wednesday 13th December 2006
Well, that’s my fortnight’s blogging paternity leave over and done with (unlike my genuine paternity leave, which I am still disputing with my employers) so I guess I should get down to writing something here. And I will, eventually; but you can’t (or I won’t) rush these things, and with Christmas coming up this is [...]
Suggestion Box
Friday 17th November 2006
Before he became an irritating twerp on Sky Sports, Rob McCaffrey was an irritating twerp on Granada TV, playing third fiddle to Elton Welsby and Clive Tyldesley on such shows as Kick Off and Granada Soccer Night. One day he was walking through the centre of Manchester when my mate Mark drove past in his [...]
Waste Not Want Not
Friday 10th November 2006
Last week the TaxPayers’ Alliance announced its “Public Sector Rich List”, a roll call of the highest earning workers employed in the state sector. In announcing the list they stated that
Taxpayers will be shocked at the scale of these massive pay awards. Large numbers of people in the public sector are effectively being paid City [...]
Fear Itself
Monday 6th November 2006
These are worrying times. Only the other day my son, barely 3 years old, told me he was going to carry a little plastic knife around with him when we went out in case he got into trouble with some bigger boys. I was truly shocked that things have come to this in 21st Century [...]
Flag Day
Sunday 29th October 2006
Perhaps it’s just me, but I can’t read about this, without thinking of this…
Update 30/10/06: Just found this video, which was the inspiration for the Simpsons parody. You may find it interesting, you may not.
Silence Is Golden
Sunday 8th October 2006
I think “light-blogging” is the appropriate phrase to describe the past month on this website, for all sorts of reasons, both obvious and less so; but I have been briefly spurred into action by listening to Melanie Phillips on Radio 4’s PM programme yesterday.
The reason for her appearance (yeah, like you didn’t know) was to [...]
Outstanding
Tuesday 26th September 2006
Paul never wrote a blog – I’m not sure he knew what one was, and I never told him about this thing – but if he had done I think you would have liked it. I suppose the nearest he got to it was writing an album review of Kenny Thomas’ The Best on Amazon [...]
Logic Of A Friend
Tuesday 19th September 2006
You may not have noticed, but when I’m not picking shit puns, I often name my blog posts after song titles, or lyrics. This post, for example, is named after a track by Badly Drawn Boy, from an album that has gained new meaning for me over the past week.
The title of my previous post [...]