Feb 20SUMMERHOLIDAYSWITH&WITHOUTCHILDRENSUMMERHOLIDAYSWITH&WITHOUTCHILDREN Help: We are being forcibly channelled into the same summer holiday arrangements every year. It never used to be like this — how did that get to happen? We have two fine Kids in our family. Well they have grown into Teenagers now, so we can be a bit…15 min read15 min read
Dec 21, 2022Help, I am lost in a MatrixLikeVirtualMegaGlobalStore.Help, I am lost in a MatrixLikeVirtualMegaGlobalStore. Why isn’t there a Click and Demolish option? A tale of the Wrong Trainers and potentially available presents. Well its Christmas and like millions of other folk I am wandering around with purposeful aimlessness in an online Superstore. I am wilfully trying to…9 min read9 min read
Oct 22, 2022I lived through post war 1960’s Britain, but is it any better now?I lived through post war 1960’s Britain, but is it any better now? It all begins with a less than exciting sojourn in the British Military. Sometime during the last Century I was a Squaddie in the British Army. I joined up from 1965 to 1969 and served as a…7 min read7 min read
Sep 5, 2022A Tale of 2 People in 2 Democracies in 2 Countries.A Tale of 2 People in 2 Democracies in 2 Countries. We used to be Friends — The View From Britain. Over the pond in Americay, Land of The Free, Daffy D was still trying to catch up on his paperwork. There had been way too much to read when…7 min read7 min read
Jun 28, 2022I Just Don’t Get ItI Just Don’t Get It But am I Bovvered ?? For a start, what’s with this whole Love Island thing? I do understand what its about but I really really don’t get it? What is there that’s interesting about a narcissistic, unrepresentative bunch of self absorbed twenty-something amateur adolescents wanting to wobble around in a ‘Who Luvs Ya Baby’ cattle…9 min read9 min read
Jun 6, 2022JubileeAnd then Andrew got Diplomatic Covid for the Jubilee. As a small child some 70 years ago, many of my early memories were of people on ladders putting up Bunting and Union Jack Flags on lampposts down our small road. In particular, a memory of my own Father nailing a…4 min read4 min read
May 26, 2022Grumpy Old Man Hair Envy.Grumpy Old Man Hair Envy. It looks like I am getting too old to have proper hair. I do still have a fair amount of it, as long as I don’t look in the barbers mirror when she shows me the back of my head. But, its now become very…3 min read3 min read
Apr 28, 2022HooDaFekRuThe Grumpy first post: I have to admit I am unerringly drawn to grumpy buggers — in my London childhood of the 50’s/60’s you could easily find them running grubby old emporiums known as “Buy, Sell and Swop” shops — they were always completely filled with recognisably unwanted stuff that…3 min read3 min read
