I think I’ll go for a curry tonight. Not ground-breaking, Pulitzer-winning, hold-the-front-page stuff, I grant you, but I thought I’d celebrate the Gurkha’s latest victory, this time in the House of Commons. I like showing solidarity with other nations’ or peoples’ celebrations. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Back in the days of [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 27, 2009
Because William Shatner
Whoever said “nostalgia ain’t what it used to be” was living in the past. Nostalgia, dear friend, is where the big bucks are. Everywhere you look there’s a movie or a tv show set in the recent past as that mythical beast, the Baby Boomer and his offspring, relive their youth. The new Star Trek [...]
April 26, 2009
Shockin’ down in Kent
My sad, silly old mate Dave Sapsted once wrote, “Bealing grew up in the part of Kent which everyone else calls South London”. Well he was half right—which is 50% more than he usually is. I was born in the London Borough of Bexley but went to school in Dartford, which was and still [...]
April 26, 2009
Pope wears funny hat
Bear defecates in woods. Rose Kennedy owned black dress. Andrew Flintoff injured playing in the IPL.
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April 25, 2009
William Elliot Whitmore
Watch this. You’ll like this.
This fella was on Later with Jools this week. A fine, fine voice and his heart seems to be in the right place. On his website some of his influences and heroes are listed as: Shane MacGowan, Ray Charles, Hank Williams, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. There’s more than a whiff [...]
April 25, 2009
Just a Minute
Inside the mind of Clement Freud.
On sex and the older male…
I am 82 and was indeed fitted with titanium and plastic knees six months ago. When propositioned recently by a woman to “come upstairs and make love”, I had to explain that it was one or the other.
On greyhound racing…
I had coffee with a racing [...]
April 24, 2009
Hard-boiled eggs and nuts
I had to go to work yesterday. I know that sounds like no big deal, but I had to go to work yesterday. I felt like shit—I was streaming and sweating, coughing and spluttering, couldn’t taste a thing and my hearing was on the fritz. It was the start of a rotten cold and what [...]
April 23, 2009
I’m not the sort of bloke…
…who says “I told you so” but…
Google Street View case rejected
Press Association
The privacy watchdog has rejected a complaint against Google Street View.
Campaign group Privacy International argued that Street View breached the privacy of people accidentally caught on camera by Google’s photo cars.
But David Evans, the ICO’s senior data protection practice manager, compared being captured by [...]
April 22, 2009
An Understanding of The Game
Nothing from me today, just a nice piece on the British Lions by Brendan Gallagher of The Telegraph. Read it here
…and while we’re at it this is always worth a look.
They don’t make fullbacks like JPR any more.
