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  • Hasp

    Our visit from Nick & Sarah was most enjoying. We headed out to Wintersett and the Anglers Retreat Public House which appears in the Good Beer Guide. A pleasant enough place filled with yokel types but only serving 3 very well kept cask ales (Tetley, John Smiths and Samuel Smiths). They don’t do food though…

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  • Morning

    I am fairly certain Friday started twice this morning. I distinctly remember turning off my alarm and getting out of bed to get ready for work…but then the alarm went off and I was in bed again. Hmmm….. I don’t feel sufficiently cured enough nor strong enough to go to the pub after work tonight.…

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  • Living in Brierley

    I’ve been living there for 6 months now. Whats it been like? How have I felt about things that go on in the village? What is the mysterious bricked up entrance in the wall under number 74? what’s the differences I’ve noticed from big city life to quiet rural backwater life? Well I’m intending on…

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  • Tatties

    Last year I made the decision that for a year I am not going to eat any potatoes. Just to see what would happen. Would I lose weight? Would I get really sick? Would I stay the same? Would I turn into a superhero with vegetable powers like laser broccoli and ultrasonic Jerusalem artichokes? Well…I’m…

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  • Cheese

    Spent most of yesterday in bed. NHS direct says “If diahorrea persists for 48 hours consult your GP”. So I did. Doctor Selim said “You mustn’ts stops the shits from comings out. You should let it runs free..haha… Dihorreas is the bodies way of cleansings itself of all the poisons and toxins, Mr Gnomepants. I…

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  • Scrotes

    Coppers came and had a “I’d rather be back in the warmth of the station supping tea and eating bacon sandwiches” look around the scene of the crime. Bodie & Doyle they weren’t. More like The Bill on a go slow. They suggested that a miniture crime wave has been affecting Brierley as there are…

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  • Twats

    I lived in Liverpool for nearly 33 years (32 if you count the 6 months in Sheffield and the 6 months I’ve lived in Brierley). During that time I lived in L25, a fairly wealthy area with moderate crime rates (my mum and dad only got broken into once and that was like after at…

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  • Mysterious

    The other day the wife asks me if I had been in her car as all the cassette tapes from her glove box were out on the floor. I hadn’t. The wife then starts worrying about her camera which she kept in there. Was the car door locked when she got in? She couldnt remember.…

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  • Humbug

    Not long now. Days away… Fortunately there is little left to do in Chez Gnomepants. The sister-in-law kindly offered to wrap and buy the remainder of the presents and even the local post mistress offered to stick the 60 odd stamps I finally got round to buying, on the cards, we finally got around to…

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  • Will you pop in to Mrs Owen’s for some tea? – Why duntcha bob ovver t’Mrs Owens? Walk down the alley – Wark dun ginnel Please close the gate – Shut thar snikket

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