What’s gone on?

  • Holly Day Part 1

    Holly Day Part 1

    So yeah, I had a stonker holiday. Despite an iffy start with Blood pressure threatening to make my head pop the rest of the hols were tiptop.

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  • stegzy – Hello can I see a doctor please? Receptionist – I’ve no appointments. Is it important? stegzy – Well my blood pressure is higher than normal and I have cardiac disease. Receptionist – Well you could sit round and wait but there is no guarantee you’ll get to see a doctor. stegzy – Can

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  • Saturday

    Saturday brought with it soggy but bright sunshine. The previous night’s rain all but an evaporating memory. So I took it upon myself to finish repairing a job I started in March. The ornamental wood fascia on the garage. Having successfully painted the replacement wood some months previous, I removed the existing old and well

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  • Friday Night

    Friday night took a surprising turn. Jill, the wife’s-ex-bosses-wife called to offer us 2 tickets to see Toby Foster ( from Phoenix Nights) and some other stand up comedians at the Comedy club in Sheffield. So, without having anything to eat we jumped into the car and headed through the rain to the one way

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  • Junque

    Dear Persons of A Merry car, Thank you very much for offering to take the two items of trash we delivered to your door this morning. I’m sure the self-titled King and Queen of Beckham will be very happy in their new home. There is no need to return the favour nor is there any

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  • Apple carts

    So we got a new carpet last month. On it is a slight “You’d never know it was there unless someone pointed it out” defect. Of course Mrs Gnomepants has the eyes of an eagle and noticed it straight away. Personally I wish she would get contact lenses as people still point at her in

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  • That darn Cat

    That darn Cat

     

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  • Cigs

    I also enjoyed 5 hours of smoking in the pub. I did so so I could say I smoked in pubs on the day before the Smoking indoors Ban came into effect. When they ban cigs all together (they will. No..seriously they will. Eventually. And then they will start on beer, followed by coffee….then antidepressants…)

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  • Royal Arse Cot

    Ascot. If there was ever a sickening display of outrageous decadence and assumed self-worth it’s fucking Ascot. The BBC have been there all week (BBC Breakfast doubly so, though not with Jenni Trent-Hughes). Its all “oh is it not so grand and splendid that one can swan round in posh hats and swig champagne while

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  • Two things are annoying me at the moment. One is Ascot and the other is Jenni Trent-Hughes. I’ll come to Ascot in a later post. Jenni fucking Trent-Hughes has been a guest on BBC Breakfast talking on a variety of topics this week. From the look of her site and her fucking Wikipedia entry she

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