Like any other parent with kids of a partying age, I shuddered when I heard the news of two young people dying at a music festival at the weekend.
Young people who like to party will probably try drugs at some time or another; it doesn't matter what there background is, experimentation is no respecter of class or creed.
The Tweet from The Mutiny Festival where two died
However, whilst getting pissed, resulting in fighting, liver ...
When I was at the cricket the other day, a lady who is a new member at the club approached my girlfriend and said, "Did you enjoy the Royal Wedding today?"
Jennifer replied, "I didn't watch it as I am not particularly interested".
For a moment, my toes curled over and it seemed like the birds had stopped singing in the trees as the tumbleweed floated past. The lady then responded with what was almost a whisper, "Nor am I really".
T...
Several years ago I got together with a woman who I thought was a sound individual. After a while, something was telling me the situation I was in was fundamentally flawed and had been based around lies that accompany a narcissistic disorder. For some time I initially refused to believe I had been mugged off but in the end, all my gut feelings came to chaotic fruition and I was lucky to escape a nightmare situation of my own making.
It was ...
Sorry I have been absent from blogs lately, what with the start of the cricket season and all that it has been a busy old time where the days have just drifted past.
Anyway, I was listening to a couple of people debating on the radio the other morning and it is pretty clear that we are now a nation that is utterly divided with regards to our future.
The marginal victory for the Leave camp in 2016 has left the whole nation seething. ...
This week, Jennifer allowed me to chose a film and on a whim, I chose 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' . This was, chiefly, because it sounded a bit like 'The Dead Poets Society' which is an old favourite of mine.
I was about to say it was fucking awful, but that would be giving it far too much credit.
I will now try to give you an idea of this deluded nostalgia fest which a critic in The Guardian described as an ...
