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Naked Neighbour ‘Put Me Off Men’

Friday, 8 July 2011

Among all the (other) things that newspapers are guilty of, the very, very worst are the clumsily posed snaps that the hack photographers throw together to illustrate the story that the hack journo is covering. As far as press photographers are concerned, the whole of the human condition can be distilled in just three basic [...]

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Making a Stand

Thursday, 7 July 2011

I know I have a very jaundiced view of the media, but that has never stopped me buying newspapers. Not that I consider myself a serious media commentator even if I do like poking fun at the more obvious hack banalities, usually to be found in the Daily Mail. But I made a stand today.

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Spitting Image Warned Us

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

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Y is for Yellow

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Y is the most difficult letter in ABC Wednesday (apart from the other 25) so this week I’ve gone for the obvious — Y is for Yellow. In fact, yellow can be a common and dominant colour, especially if you live in the nearby town of Ashton as you can see from my photo on [...]

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Rebekah the Hack

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Words fail me over the latest News of the World phone hacking scandal. It has been pretty obvious this illegal activity has been going on under the guise of “public interest”, but hacking the mobile of a murder victim beggars belief. I’m with those who are calling for a public inquiry because I find it [...]

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Hymn Book Tennis

Sunday, 3 July 2011

I’ve been think about yesterday’s post and about how why the average tennis match needs to take three and a half hours to complete and whether there might be a speedier version. I was thinking in terms of 20 Twenty Cricket which has been incredibly successful and then I realised that I’d discovered the answer [...]

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Murray’s Mound of Pain

Saturday, 2 July 2011

Poor Andy Murray. The great white hope wiped out and we have to wait yet another year for the next Fred Perry. But look on the bright side Andy. At least you can go back to being Scottish instead of a Brit. Don’t get me wrong, I quite enjoy watching tennis on the telly, as [...]

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Rude Awakenings

Friday, 1 July 2011

I’m beginning to wonder whether the government is determined to save money on my ‘gold-plated pension by ensuring that the BBC drives me to an early grave. Each morning I wake up happy and refreshed ready to greet the day only to have my mood shattered by an interview with someone who is clear;ly barking [...]

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Everybody Out!

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Although I’ve been a member of a trade union, I can’t recall ever having been on strike. I might be wrong because I have a vague memory that there was talk of a walk out when I was in NALGO in my the dim and distant past, but I don’t remember using poster paint on [...]

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