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Hey it’s Xmas!

And people are putting Xmas lights all over their houses. I thought of putting a shiny star balloon over my house to fool the gullible into thinking the second coming had arrived, but then I thought better of it, not … Continue reading →

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Witness to a robbery

This weekend a couple of scruffy characters walked into a petrol station while I waited at the counter and stuffed sandwiches into a bag before running away. Not much of a payoff for the risk they took.

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Traditional Xmas Treat

An Orson Welles film I haven’t seen before – A Safe Place, directed by Henry Jaglom.

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Half a Per Cent Can Bring a Country Down

It only takes half a percent of the inhabitants of a country to be dedicated to its destruction to make it ungovernable. In the UK we know this well from Northern Ireland. In Afghanistan it is the Taliban, and when … Continue reading →

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The danger of boxing

There is a real danger your opponent might box your brain into your bum, the everytime you sit on it you are squeezing it into an ever smaller space, until eventually it pops and disappears.

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There is no cost of living crisis

Ed milliband is full of crap. There is no cost of living crisis. There is only a crisis of expectations because people expect too much, like anyone who finds themselves unemployed when they thought they had a job for life.

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Why cant home phones be fitted with micro mobile phone masts

So when at home your mobile calls are routed through your home phone if your mobile can’t pick up a signal?

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Wife searches text messages

To check I’m not texting our cat how much I love her.

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Oh contraire

While everyone is praising Mandela the terrorist, why don’t any of the victims of the bombings perpetrated by the ANC appear on tv to condemn all the razzmatazz and hero worship?

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To be Able to Spend More Time Exercising

Paul tied a plate with his lunch around his neck.

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