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A War on the Rich or the Poor?
The hilarious sight of footballer, Peter Odemwingie getting turned away from the gates of QPR last night, was a classic example of the unsavoury nature of a sport that was once known as the beautiful game. It was also timed perfectly for David Beckham's golden balls to shine even brighter after he donated his £150k a week contract salary to a Parisian children's charity. Whilst Beckham should be commended for giving money to charity (a total ...
Dinner With Dave!
About a year ago I had a semi-drunken conversation with my friend Nick, who lives in Broughton, about who we would choose to have dinner with from the last century. I think I came up with Joe Strummer and I 'm pretty sure Nick decided on Adolf Hitler. Not, he claimed, because he had Nazi tendencies but out of sheer curiosity of how the mind of a dictator operated. Anyway, I have changed my mind now, as I want to have dinner with Dave, the ...
Christmas Lag Dissipates
For those of you who are regular readers of my blog posts, I would like to confirm that I am not dead, at least not yet anyway. The fact is that this week, I have been trying to readjust my body clock to a sensible time and it is with some relief that last light I went to bed at 11.30 and slept through until 6.30 this morning; that is bordering on normality! There are varying reasons for these fitful nights, including a heating system that ...
The Campaign For better Health Continues
My campaign to be healthy in 2013 reached day four today, something which, if I am not mistaken, must be a new personal best. As a bonus, after successive work outs at the gymnasium and a long walk along the seafront at Keyhaven and Milford yesterday, I was lucky enough to bump into my old cricket buddy Andy "Rowlers" Rowley who challenged me to a game of badminton this lunchtime. Andy was given a month’s membership of the gym where I am a ...
The Battle With New Year’s Resolutions
Thirty-six hours after smoking ten fags and decking a full bottle of vintage port, I went in to full scale self-righteous mode this lunch time and embarked on my first trip down to the gymnasium since mid-December 2012. New Year’s Eve was the first and only time I really abused myself with toxins over the Christmas break, something that was partly due to being physically well off the pace and partly to do with deliberately avoiding my new ...