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The best of Homer

No apologies from me or the Rust for sharing with our readers today this piece on the website of The Daily Telegraph on somebody’s pick of the 40 best one-liner gags from the US cartoon series The Simpsons over the past quarter of a century, or whatever length of time it is since the characters [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Do you know what it is yet, Mr Jones …?

Like many England rugby fans, I am waiting on tenterhooks to find out exactly how new head coach Eddie Jones eventually sets up his chosen coaching team and in particular just what he is going to do – or even ‘what he is going to be allowed to do’ by the crazy agreement in place between the [...]

December 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Peake of achievement

Yesterday, almost by chance, I watched the take-off of the Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that took with it the European Space agency British astronaut Major Tim Peake to a rendezvous with the International Space Station. I had been out shopping and, upon returning, [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

A rewarding evening

Due to a prior engagement up Oxford way, I began driving home to London at about 9.00pm last night and did so accompanied by Radio Five Live’s live coverage of the second half of Leicester City 2-1 victory over Chelsea, commentary by Guy Mowbray and Robbie Savage. I’m not a huge [...]

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Events, dear boy …

Here’s an article worth reading – and not because I agree with it, I hasten to add – on the UK’s in-out referendum on the EU, written by columnist Steve Richards, which appears today on the website of – THE [...]

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

First things first, please …

Never mind the war upon ISIS or the fact of 195 countries signing an accord in Paris regarding action to be taken in respect of climate change in order to avoid the extinction of the human race by the year 2100 AD, there are far more important priorities to be dealt with and I cannot understand why [...]

December 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

You live and learn

Yesterday I went to my little tame garage man around the corner [definition: the excellent old-school mechanic who, unlike all main dealers, doesn’t charge a fortune and, if I call in extremis, will drop any/everything he’s doing to ‘sort me out’] for my car to have what amounts to its [...]

December 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Damned if you do …

I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I find David Cameron a pretty unimpressive politician, having for many years now alighted upon (and stuck to) the view that he’s little more than a Tory version of Tony Blair. In other words, despite all his brave words and gestures – I’m not saying [...]

December 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cause for concern

The subject of paedophilia has always been as troubling one for human society for all sorts of reasons – even over the past week boxer Tyson Fury has caused a media storm by making public un-PC comments about a number of things, including homosexuality. In his case, as I understand it, weight was [...]

December 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Why am I surprised it’s coming to this ..?

As an ‘oldie’ I’m very conscious that modern technology if not life, is leaving me behind, albeit the fact doesn’t particularly bother me. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that I appreciated, while completing the survey of best/favourite songs that my brother occasionally conducts, that [...]

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

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