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Pietersen – England’s Number One Batsman and Number One Scapegoat!

Posted on February 7, 2014

Cricket is a sport I love more than any other and as someone who has struggled to be able to master it in any degree as a player, I choose to study it instead, marvelling at the technique of those at the top of their game. That is why I can't help but be saddened at the unceremonious dumping of the most flamboyant of them all, Kevin Pietersen. To see him at his outrageous best was a pleasure like no other in sport and have no doubt about ...

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Anger at the Crash that Never Was!

Posted on January 28, 2014

When I am working at home I have decided that during my lunch break, I am going to go to the dump and go through the gradual process of unloading all the shit from the outhouse that came either from my old house, or has been ripped out of the new one. I kicked off this new regime today by getting rid of a few boxes of unwanted stuff and some lighting from the "Elvis Pike Classic Collection" that the previous owners had put up, presumably to ...

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Alleged Celebrity Perverts and my Only Contacts With Fame

Posted on January 21, 2014

I went for a walk in the forest yesterday with my old friend Nick and our respective dogs and predictably, the subject turned towards the hat-trick of ‘Operation Yew Tree’ cases that, coincidentally, came to court on the same day last week. A glance at the news would have you believe that the trials of William Roache, Rolf Harris and Dave Lee Travis were all linked and very similar in nature when in fact, there are differences in all of ...

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The Differing Men From the Tip and the River Avon

Posted on January 11, 2014

One thing that sprung to my attention today was that amongst the hours of wallpaper stripping, hole filling and mending leaks whilst causing several more, is the lack of social interaction I have had recently. This became apparent today when I realised that the person I have had the most conversations with lately was a bitter and angry man who had taken enough wrong turnings in life to end up director of operations at the local refuse ...

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Benefit Street and the Moral Maze

Posted on January 8, 2014

Who saw that programme on Channel 4 last night called Benefit Street? Wow that was an eye opener and it came, ironically, on the day that £25 billion of Government spending was to be saved by increased benefit cuts. Initially, it looked like a right wing party political broadcast to incite venom against spongers, but it soon became apparent that these were not people living in iPad and  flat screen TV luxury off the back of ripping off ...

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