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Bonkers Belfast Hotel
For some reason that I am unable to decipher, Tripadvisor has not listed this review. It maybe the rude words engraved on the mirror! This was a most fabulous and completely bonkers hotel. The reception bell was a large eight legged silver gilt rather menacing crab; there was a huge black octopus hanging in front... Continue Reading →
Homophobic Shoe Sizes
I I do like to wind people up now and then. So it was that I was up in the city looking for a new pair of trainers. Actually, to be more correct, a new pair of walking about here and there shoes, for I have absolutely no intention of engaging... Continue Reading →
KIER STARMER IS TRANS
Or if you like, his beliefs are not fixed or certain. There is nothing fundamental in his beliefs. Those he has, can be described as being on a spectrum of beliefs, a bit like gender beliefs. Thus he once bbelieved women could have penises. But he has swung the other way, now he believes only... Continue Reading →
Review: BBC’s adaptation of Great Expectations
I watched the first episode of this adaption, albeit with an advance widespread and acerbic criticism of the piece, with what can only be described as small expectations. But I actually liked it. It wasn’t that bad at all. It followed the storyline closely enough and was quite entertaining. Of course, it... Continue Reading →
Did you ever eat cale or know someone who ate cake?
Few people that I know carry any kind of torch for Boris Johnson. Some, a dwindling number, still carry a torch for Kier Starmer. We know now that most of those engaged in the so-called parties at Number 10 were civil servants. Unionised workers. They had been working to the point of exhaustion. For them... Continue Reading →
Writing Blogs
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A princely piece of Doggerel
A piece of doggerel It was my favorite bowlMing of courseyou would expect no less for a dog that’s royalNo other dogs could ever use itIn particularThose corgis’ that oft did visitAlas, its now in bits and piecesBeyond repairShattered by a falling heirDepressed am I,I cannot say how deep the grief isMy precious bowlIn thirty... Continue Reading →
Nottingham Castle – Putting the boot in
The month before Christmas. The City council pull the financial plug on the Nottingham Castle Trust, leaving them without a penny in the kitty and no choice but to liquidate and throw their employees out.Forty-seven redundancies. Forty-seven Nottingham Castle employees were thrown onto the cobbles.What a bleak Christmas they must have faced. For them, a... Continue Reading →
Homeless for Christmas
In my donated sleeping bag in Oxford Street I shall miss the Kings majestic Christmas speech And the message of the Pope, Of hope, Or the blessing of the Rabbi Or the man with the Koran But hungry cold and shivering I shall take comfort in listening... Continue Reading →
Why did Nottingham Castle close
Why did Nottingham Castle close? You’ll get the truth here. I haven’t got a bloody clue why it closed! I simply do not have enough financial information, or financial expertise to make a judgment and, along with most of us, must await the report of the liquidators to the castle’s creditors, or the report of ... Continue Reading →
An ode to Mrs. Jacob Rees Mogg
Mrs. Jacob Rees Mogg She docent say yes she says yah It's not Primark it’s Gucci and Barbour And champers rather than Reselling From Harrods food hall Or Fortnum and Mason With quails eggs, quinoa foie gras, game pie, earl grey, and Dom Perignon. It’s Agent Provocateur undies,... Continue Reading →
The Joys of travelling by rail
A horrendously overcrowded jam-packed standing-room-only journey by train from Nottingham to London. Somewhat surprised to get an email from East Midlands Railways enquiring if I enjoyed the trip. My reply is below: “What a splendid journey. We found ourselves lodged in the connecting corridor of two carriages, along with many other of your passengers, far... Continue Reading →
From SIR KIER STARMER, FIRST DRAFT OF OUR PROPSOSED KING’S SPEECH TO THE hOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
THE KING'S SPEECH (DRAFT) HIS MAJESTY’S MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT MY LORDS AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS My Government’s priority is to re-establish equity and fairness in the public realm while strengthening the economy, increasing public sector investment and encouraging growth in our economy, ensuring that the most vulnerable... Continue Reading →
Despair
What happened to that peace trainWhat happened to noting to kill or die forTo all that easy if you tryimaginationWhere’s that friend I called out forWho said he’d always be thereAnd where’s the love sweet loveOf which there was so little ofWhy could I not break freeWho destryedl that bridgeAcross the troubled watersEverybody knows That’s... Continue Reading →
The Castle Report – The evidence in full.
` This is every word of the evidence given by witnesses to the alleged racist incident at Nottingham Castle. The evidence was given, to the external independent inquiry, commissioned by the Trustees of Nottingham Castle and is extracted directly from their report dated 24th January 2022 It exposes a number of important points about... Continue Reading →
The Dramatic and the Dreadful
This stunning, dramatic, magnificent portrait, by Ken Currie, hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. It portrays Scotland's principal forensic anthropologist, Professor Dame Sue Black. It is an enormous canvas, 9 feet by 6 feet, which the artist has entitled "The unknown man" It captures Professor Black at the very height of her... Continue Reading →
All the evidence! At Last !
This is every word of evidence given by witnessess who appeard before the independent external inquirey inot a "racist incident" at Nottingham Castle.
Review – Cat Stevens reconstructed
Poor Yusuf, murdered in an Edinburgh basement Jazz bar! In fairness, this was not advertised as a tribute act. But still, without that rich rolling velvety voice…… And Yusuf has a pharsing of his own, undulations that were, are, unique to his style I could not bear witness to the murder, I left early for... Continue Reading →
Reiview – Rob McGlade Poet.
I walked into the cellar of this small Scottish baar, just across from Edinburgh's Catholic Cathedral, and I discovered the next poet laurette! He might not make it, seeing as he's Irish, but the audience were adamant and unamimous in believing he has that level of talent. I mean, who the hell writes a poem... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 