Jul
29
First published in 2007 after Freddie Flintoff had a slight problem with a pedalo and the rare Short Necked Oil Beetle was discovered living in Salcombe. Isn’t that typical! This country can spend nine billion on the Olympics, yes nine billion, just so the British Chess team can get a bronze but we can’t back …
Jul
24
I went to a Barn Dance last week! Yes, I was docey doe’ing and promenading with the best of them. The enemy, the good lady wife, decided to add flavour to the experience buy dressing as a cowgirl and instructed me to find some sort of cow poke kit for myself. It took some rummaging …
Jul
21
I am not affected by television advertising but I have had a great weekend lugging sacks of my broken and unwanted gold jewellery to the post office. There was piles of it! I have sorted out all my financial problems and now don’t have to call that other company who can organise easy and affordable …
Jul
18
Congratulations to my local supermarket who have placed an advert at the end of the escalator which nearly killed me as I tried to read it. It was small, blurred and at an angle and in trying to focus on it, I missed the end of the belt and launched myself into a display of …
Jul
17
I feel that we know each other well enough by now and that I can share my inner most secrets. Last Sunday I found myself sitting on the sofa with a slight pain in the lower part of my stomach and a nagging feeling that something was missing. It then dawned on me that I …
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