Fun in the snow

Here is Lucien playing in the snow!

Thats me at the Canterbury Fayre 2002 grooving to The Pretty Things - photo taken by Lord Snooty himself Craig High.

That Mycenae Kenningham Experience

Myself and Dave Kenningham went to Mycenae House on Monday - first time in over a year. It's £5 to get in nowadays! We went to The British Oak last night to see Coralie Raven & The Good Guys, who turned out to be none other that Mitch Hiller and Paul Hirsh. Fantastic singing from Coralie and brill guitar & keyboards from Mitch and Paul.

Looking forward to The Star & Garter tonight. That Nadeen White Experience will be performing. Pete D'Hat and Dave K will be joining me for pint swallowing exercises!!!

IPOD

Here's some of my favourite stuff that I've been listening to on my IPod this week:

Book Of Rules - The Heptones
Postcards From Scarborough - Michael Chapman
Prayer - Miles Davis & Gil Evans
City Of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
My Eyes Have Seen You - The Doors
World In Harmony - Fleetwood Mac
The Days Of 49 - Bob Dylan
Pleasures Of The harbour - Phil Ochs
Baby Lemonade- Syd Barrett
Time - Dino Valenti

Luverlee music ...

Still waiting

People are always moaning about what a bad service Royal Mail givse, especially with the current dispute and strikes. A lot of cowboy operators are now trying to take advantage of this and are taking on more delivery work. They are grabbing the money from panicing businesses that are worried about delivering to their customers on time. But without the expertise of the trained Royal Mail professional, they simply can't cope or even begin to give full quality driven nationwide delivery service. They will never be able to provide anything comparable to RM in it's prime,that's before the massive scaling down that has been enforced by the LABOUR government over the last 10 years. Here's that proof:

I ordered a RAM chip for my netbook and it was sent by my supplier via a bunch of cowboys called UPS It was fully trackable so I looked online and saw that it had arrived at their Dartford depot early Tuesday morning and had been sent out for delivery at 7.10am that morning. That's good I thought I can now upgrade my RAM and install Windows 7 on my netbook! No chance - after waiting all day I looked again online and it stated that my item had neen "missed" and would be delivered next day! Ha ha it's now Thursday and here's the travking record copied straight from their site:

Icarus club

Went to a fabtastic music club on Thursday check out The Icarus Club at The Station Hotel Hither Green London SE13 every Thursday. It's also free admission! Not exactly an "open" mic, as all the acts are pre-booked. It is a showcase for new talent. Lovely atmosphere, fantastic sound quality, these guys really know what they're doing. All the acts were fantastic. The biggest hit for me though was a young duo called PACER unbelievably good guitar & bass with intricate weaving of harmonic structured melodies that are rare in modern rock/pop music. Here are a few photos that I took.

Bruise @ Orpington Folk Club

I went with johnny Evans, Steve & Val to Orpington Folk Club for the first time in over a year. Bruise were the guest act!

I'm a poet

The British Oak is a strange affair
The landlord is never there
The locals like to read old papers and smile
Some have dogs
"I'm just out to walk the dog luv, may be a while"
There are clean bogs
There are plugs
The amplifier fires up
My lager deserves a final sup
I need to learn driving
The folk club is thriving. The ceiling is bare
Lynne isn't there, Richard Russell is buzzing. Some good new faces appear
It's great to hear
The return of Gordon with his mandola and John Lee churning out musical waves on the hurdy gurdy. Welcome back also to Neil sporting a Flying Burrito Brothers T shirt!!!

Fiddlefit for a king!

The excellent duo Fiddlefit did a cracking half hour set at The Blackheath Folk Club last night. Bill & Judith really put on an outstanding display of musicianship with their own brand of violin and guitarfolk music. It was also good to see the return of old favourites Bruise, who have been touring England, Scotland & Europe throughout the summer. My old mate Richard Russell also turned up and treated us to one of his poetic rants. The highlight for me was Martin and Simon's impromptu performance of All Blues to celebrate the 50th ammiversary of the release of Mile Davis' Kind Of Blue album.

Crayford Arms 19th September 2009, Gong Scourer Morris and various folkies!

Hellooo

Well I haven't been on this blog page for some time now. It was nice last week at Knockholt! I also had a good time last night at Blackheath Folk Club. Blahh Blahh Blahh!

Lucien's First Bike

Well I'm going to try an alternative to youtube called DAILYMOTION so things may go haywire.

Lucien's First Bike
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Night Time Blues

Well here I am sitting in an office on the 3rd Floor at Rathbone Place. It's 1.15AM and I can still hear the drunken crowds of revellers in the streets outside. I'm doing a one off night shift for my revisions project (job cutting) all it involves is counting the numbers of workers in specific work areas every 10 minutes throughout the night! That's so exciting man ...

Can't wait to get down to the Star and Garter for the Friday night blues & Folk & comedy revue with good ol' Steve & Kelvin..

I went to folkmob last night. Fairly quiet night as a lot of people are away on holiday at this time of the year. Pete The Hat's son Gavin gave a superb performance of two West End musical numbers. There was also some stunning guitar playing from young Darragh and young Chris. The lager tasted exremely good and was lovely and cold, just right for this hot weather!

Plop

Well I didn't last long on the wagon - 4 days! This is because I just had to go to the British Oak last night, it was calling me "Come, come, come to the folk club, come to the folk club Theresa's there!" like that old Black Widow record! It was a rather quiet night, but we still had fun. It was good to see Neil Clasper playing some tasty lead guitar with Matt & Jerry. I even managed to do 3 songs myself, all Dylan stuff - Positvely 4th Street, One More Cup Of Coffee & Lay Lady Lay. I think I must be after Fred Dylan's job! Good to see Theresa & Fran out. Thanks for the lift home Big T! Pete The Hat was there with his son Gavin, very nice young bloke who promises to learn the guitar and perform before his next visit all the way from St Albans. I thinks I will have to go to folkmob tonight - but that will mean drinking, could it be physically possible for me to go there, go up to the bar, say "good evening Fran, would you be kind enough to pour me a slimline tonic with ice and a slice?" ... Ooooh that will be hard work, especially when all my chums are sitting back, swilling gallons of fine english ale and litres of the coolest golden lager, right there in front of me while I stand with this stupid little glass of watery plop in my hand. Let's wait and see.

Lurgi?

A great night at The Blackheath Folk Club last night. I have now finished jury service and am back at work again. I don't think I will be at folkmob tonight I feel a bit sick, hope it's not the dreaded lurgi flu. Oh I nearly forgot, I went to Colin's session at the Pelton Arms on Sunday and that was great too! Here are some pictures:

Jury causes lack of interest in folk

Well I've been on jury service again this week, so haven't had much time to put anything on here. Both Blackheath Folk and Folkmob were sparsely populated this week. I'm off to The Star & Garter tonight, so lets hope that this fares a bit better.

Star & Garter

I went to the new session at The Star & Garter on Friday with Pete and Graham. It is run by Steve Bowditch and Fred Dylan. Fred was away on holiday in Crete, so we missed his "Sounds like Bob" show. The host Steve Bowditch was excellent with his unique brand of comedy and song with guitar accompaniment. His current theme is "I'm A Pirate" and it had the audience in stiches! Especialy his take on Village People's "In The Navy" I didn't get the name of Steve's mate, who was co-hosting the evening but he was really funny as well, joining in on percussion and backing vocals with Steve and some of the other acts. There were a couple of old faces performing, Tony & Keith also a couple of bands "Warpigs" and a tro who's name I didn't get (Little something people) who's singer sounded just like Sandy Denny.

British Oak

It was a good night at The Blackheath Folk club last night. We had our youngest performer Daniel Goodwin aged 10 who played Ukelele and piano for us.

Moldy Moldy Men

We went to The Royal Standard last night. Funny all the years I've lived in and around the Blackheath area I'd never been in this pub before. Anyway they are going to try live music for a few weeks on saturday nights, so we thought we'd give it a whirl. The duo playing were The Moldy Moldy Men. They comprise of Jonathan Glew and Niall Costigan who are both regular performers at Blackheath Folk club. They did a two hour set of a mixture of covers and original material. Very good stuff and I recommend that you see them.

Swimming in a putrid pool

I had a good birthday on Wednrsday, my head was still spinning the next day, but I managed to get to work OK. Bruise were very good at Folkmob and the beer was certainly flowing. As part of my new "get fit" regime I went swimming in the new Eltham Centre this morning. The water smelt bad of putrid human sweat. I noticed that the water was not chlorinated, so it must be a hotbed of bacteria and all sorts of infectious stuff.A load of schoolkids had just left the pool, so they had probably pissed in it as well, dirty little bastards. I didn't stay in there very long as the stench was overbearing. I think I will have to give up alcohol for a few weeks, I am getting to like it too much! I'm off work for a few weeks with jury service starting on 20th July. Not looking forward to commuting daily to Tthe Elephant & Castle.

British Oak

Went to the British Oak last night for the folk night. There was some big threatening looking git standing at the bar shouting "go on the Irish!!" "Oi diddly diddly" "Go on you catholics" and shit like that, during performances throughout the session. The thick bastard didn't understand that folk music can be played and sung by any nationality, in fact apart from myself I don't think there were any Irish in the pub and there certainly were not any Irish songs or tunes performed. It's brainless scum like that that can ruin the night. Other than that it was another good night with some outstanding players and singers.:

Nuclear bastards

Although it is good news that the russians and americans are talking again about arms reduction and cutting back their nuclear stockpiles. I don't really think it will make the world any safer, because it all means nothing when there are still loads of hateful, evil bastards such as Korea, Pakistan and Israel armed to their rotten teeth with nuclear weapons and threatening the very stability of our planet. Let's hope that when the LHC finally gets up and working, the magical secrets that it reveals are never shared with the likes of these filthy warmongering scum. These sacred secrets should be kept in the hands of reason and used to ensure world peace and the exploration and eventual colonisation of deep space... Amen

Where did the time go?

This is my last night shift. When I finish in the morning I will be off work for the rest of the week and then all next week. Then from 20th July I will be on jury service so, with a bit of luck I won't be back at work until August. Looking forward to Wednesday, when I shall be looking backwards at my life so far! It will be my birthda, 54 years old, thats an old man! And here's me I still haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up. As Sandy Denny once said "who knows, where the time goes" I certainly don't. Anyway the great duo Bruise will be at Folkmob and I will buy my friends a beer or six.

Wanna kill some peasants? Here have some dosh!

I've just read this on the BBC news site:

"The UK is to spend £1bn a year in overseas aid on countries that have recently emerged from conflict"

The UK is a Trillion pounds in the red and one of the poorest countries in the developed world. Who the fuck decides to give away money that we haven't got to countries that will spend it on murdering their own citizens?

Blues Abused!

Went to the British Oak last night to see The Steve Morrison & Mark Walker incarnation of Blues Abuse. Although we missed Al Richardson's harp playing, it did mean that Steve could treat us to more guitar solos than is normal when Al is blowing full steam. Mark's drumming and occasional backing vocals added a new dimension to Steve's sound. There were also some new (for me)songs, as well as different versions (harp free)of old stuff. Good to see lots of my friends from the folkmob at the gig, This is a great pub and worth a visit if you haven't been yet!

Clattershack

I went to The Crown in Chislehurst last night with my mate Pete. This is home to a monthy session run by old friends Missiuri Gutts. Here are a few snaps:

Liz Simcock

Myself and Graham went to see Liz Simcock and her band at Orpington Friday Folk last Friday. This is a lovely little folk club. I am always amazed at the number of quality guest acts this club manages to put on during the course of the year, for such a small club. This is thanks to Sue Tuckey who runs the club herself! There you go, a committee of ONE, so there are no arguments or disagreements. Liz Simcock was her usual faultless self and we enjoyed two outstanding sets. Floor spots came from the unbelievable glam-folk pioneers Tone Deaf Leopard who were augmented with Ian on double bass & Warwick on lead guitar, Liz looked a bit concerned that her band may leave her to pursue a career of fortune & fame! Big Trevor Little also did a solo joiny-in gospel song which was outstanding. My old mate Peter Twiddle gave a cracking couple of numbers as did Ralph Henning. The beer tasted good the company was great - what more could you want on a friday night!

Sky Saxon

Everybody is talking about the recent death of that Michael Jackson bloke, and Farah Fawcett , but sadly the death of one of my heroes on 25th June went by unreported in the mainstream media.

The great SKY SAXON (later Sky Sunlight) leader of sixties psychedelic punk/garage band died aged 71 on Thursday 25th June 2009. His early song "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" was recently used on a TV ad ( don't know which one) but surely he will always be associated with that brilliant anthem "Pushin' To Hard"

I first came across Sky's music during the early seventies on Lenny Kaye's wonderful compilation NUGGETS. I then managed to get hold of some of the early Seeds albums including an original copy of WEB OF SOUND album on a stall in Portobello Market for 30P! Their early stuff was solid proto-punk but they later developed a more pastoral psychedelic sound and Sky in true weighed in fashion Sky went off his head and joined a hippie commune and changing his name from Saxon to Sunlight. During the Punk/New wave boom of the late seventies I remember buying a record by Sky Sunlight and The New Seeds - but for me he never recaptured that raw innocent sound of the early Seeds records.
RIP

Ramsgate

What a dump. We drove down there to take my grandson Lucien to see the sea, as he has never been there before. After a 2 hour journey then £2 to park in the carpark near the beach. The public toilets were closed, The swings and other children's things were also closed!!! This is at 2pm on a sunny afternoon in late June!!! Some dodgy looking crook types sitting outside a "seafood" bar selling imported, defrosted, prawnshit & factory compressed fishmeal from some cesspit in the far east as "local seafood" No wonder this country is on it's knees. Bloody lazy bastards "can't be bothered to open up, think I'll go back to bed" attitude that made this country what it is. We then went on to Herne bay, at least some stuff was open there - but all very tacky, gimme-your-money-for-shit type stuff. funny that these beaches all have signs saying NO DOGS ON BEACH between May & Sept yet there were hordes of those arseholes with baseball caps on their peanut, brainless sculls, sporting cheap gold toilet chains on their scrawny necks, with crap tattoos on their idiotic arms grinning at each other whilst excercising their ugly mutt shit-machine bull terriers, rot-while-errrs and other fierce mad dogs. Yeah we'll be rushing back there!

Knockholt

Here is some video footage of this year's Knockholt This Is Summer. The footage isn't much good and it has been compressed, which means on top of crap footage you have poor quality. However It was just a bit of fun. I will try and upload a shorter uncompressed version when I get time.

Blob From Shanghai

Got back from Knockholt on Saturday morning knackered. Not sure if I am fit enough anymore to endure 3 or 4 days in a field drinking beer! Anyway when I got back I lay there on my bed and turned on the TV. There was a movie on called The Lady From Shanghai, I vaguely remember seeing the last 15 or so minutes of this film about 30 years ago and being impressed by the pschedelic/surreal sequence at a closed fun fair. I thought then, that I must see the complete film at the next opportunity, I soon forgot all about it. Anyway, all these years later I finally decided to watch it. Well what can I say, that Orsen Welles bloke is a genius. The movie site IMDB say that this film is great but flawed! They are talking through their bottoms - it is a brilliant film and I urge anyone who appreciates good movies to see it.

On a completely different subject, I came across a strange phenomenon the other day called Quantum Lyman-Alpha Blobs - these are pulsating blobs of plama/matter about 8 quadzillion miles across and they are like huge jellyfish wandering around our universe zipping in and out of reality eating galaxies for breakfast. I looked through my telesope last night and saw one with it's hungry eye on me!

Movie Update

Here is an update version of the latest Pete The Hat blockbuster. The earlier upload to Youtube contained some encoding errors so lets try again:

Barbeque

Linda Smith had a barbeque yesterday. These BBQs are set in Linda's lovely garden in sunny Mottingham are an occasion that I always look forward to. Thanks Linda for once again hosting a great afternoon. The beer was brewed by Linda herself for the event and it tasted fantastic (as did the botted lager, and the bottle of wine ...) Here are a few pictures that I took:

Solitary Electron Soul

I've got a couple of weeks off work coming up soon. Knockholt is on the horizon. I'm getting worried about my leg, it is more painful now than it was before the operation in February - I could hardly walk yesterday and the pain is stopping me from sleeping - whinge, whinge, moan, groan ...

Did you know that in the whole universe there is only one electron. It zips from location to location in and out of reality and time. All of every thing is everything and nothing at the same time and time does not exist! Blimey where does that leave me?

Well I reckon that this particular quantum mechanical theory could be applied to the "soul" That would mean that there is actually only one "soul" in all of space and time and it zips instantaniously from person to person across time and space covering every human that ever lived or ever will be. This happens in a never ending continuum that takes less than billionth of quadrillionth of a nanosecond for each cycle. So that means that you are everybody. So you better be nice to your fellow man because he/she is, or will be you!!!

Pig's Ear

I went to the Pig's ear Folk Ale festival Friday through to Monday camping with a load of musicians, next to a pub in scorching hot Kent! Isn't life hard! Pig's Ear are a fantastic folk band based in Edenbridge, Kent. Each year they organise this small friendly festival at the Kentish Horse Pub in Markbeech. The Pub Landlady own's the three adjoining beautiful fields, which are surrounded by some of the most beautiful countryside in England. There is a mixture of Rock, Country, Americana, Folk Song & Folk Tunes on the main PA stage, a singaround in the pub every night and loads of small sessions going on in varous parts of the camp and certainly something there to please everybody. There was maypole dancing, Childrens entertainment, great pub food at reasonable prices and a huge choice of real ales.

Got it!

The asus 1000HE was delivered yesterday. I've only messed around with it for a short time, but so far, I'm impressed. I can connect to my wireless network at home and now, thanks to the £5 a month add-on to my vergin broadband account I can access the internet whilst wandering. That means I can take the asus to knockholt loaded with music and browse the net as well!

Netbook & Ale

There's a fantastic new netbook out called ASUS 1000HE it has a 9 hour battery life, XP,Bluetooth, camera and only weighs 1.45kg. I was thinking of getting one as my laptop is heavy and bulky. £309 should I ...?

I am thinking of goinhg to Pig's ear Folk & Ale next week. My mate Pete is going on Friday I may go on thursday. It's a musical camping weekend - in a field behind a pub!

Nigel Performs

Nigel is going back to Oz on sunday. He treated us to a brief performance of Neil Young's "Hurricane" last night at folkmob.

Fat Bloke

I put on tons of weight over the last year - I think it's because I haven't been going out to pubs as much as I used to. Sitting at home surfing the web and watching DVDs whilst eating ice cream, sweets, take-aways and other rubbish has taken it's toll. That along with drinking cans of coke all day and no excercise. By March 2009 I ended up weighing nearly 17½ stone!!!!

Enough is enough I said. I want to be able to wear normal clothes again. I don't want to die of a heart attack! I am now on a strict selective food regime. No cokes, cheese, white bread, red meat, eggs, potatoes, sweets etc. Lots of fish, salad, fruit & water, one or two cups of black coffee, occasional chicken breast, occasional slice of wholemeal. Now I do go out for a beer now and then, mainly Tuesday & Wednesday for the folk clubs. I am not going to be silly and not have a few pints - so those pub visits are excempt.

Since starting this on 28th March I am back down to 15½ stone and there's no stopping there my target is 12½ stone and hopefully be able to fit into a pair of Levi's again.

Nigel

It was great to see my old friend Nigel last night at Folkmob. I haven't seen him since 2001 - doesn't time fly. He's made a new life for himself on the other side of the world. He was in England for a short stay with his partner April and their 4 month old daughter Indigo here are a few photos that I took:

Rochester

I had a great day at The Good Intent yesterday. John Barden was running a great singaround in the bar and Dal was running a beer drinkers paradise in the garden - 30 guest ales! I would have loved to have tried them all but I found the wonderful Whistable East Indi Ale and stuck to that as it was luverly! Good to see a good folkmob turnout. Sue & Mick Forde, Mike & Chris Porter, Dave, Pete, Jim, Linda, Rachael, George, Babs and Richard. Missed Richard Bridge. I didn't bother with the High Street this year and went straight to the Good Intent arriving at 11:45 to find about 6 people waiting outside the gate. I don't know why they don't open earlier!

Icarus Club

I went to the Icarus club on Friday. This is a short season of gigs at Blackheath Halls promoting new bands and local performers. The first act was The Kittiwakes, a trio playing all original material. Folky stuff most of which relates to Lofoten Islands in the artic. The Next act was our old friends Bruise. They played well, but the person doing the sound mix did not do them justice. there were a couple of other mediocre acts then a super set from Dennis Greaves & Mark Feltham from Nine Below Zero.

Easter

Easter Sunday. It's not snowing, but it's a miserable damp grey morning. Bruise were excellent last night at The British Oak. It was good to see a fair turnout of folkmobians, including Dave K, Mike & Chris Porter, Mr & Mrs John H,John Evans and Graham. I'm looking forward to their show at The Rugby Club on July 8th, my birthday!

Good Friday rant

It's Easter already. Last easter only seems like yesterday when it was snowing! There's not much happening today, so I'll just sit around and play with computers and stuff. I think I'll go to homebase and buy some tomato plants, but they're probably closed. I gave up eating rubbish a couple of weeks ago, that includes eggs, cheese, burgers, sausages, white bread, sweets, ice cream, coca cola, crisps, peanuts, cakes & biscuits. I have been drinking only water and black coffee. I still drink lager when I go out which is only two or three times a week these days. It's a slow process and I've lost about a stone (6kg) I need to shed at least another 2 stone to be where I want to! Bruise are playing at The British Oak tomorrow and I am looking forward to it. The are a really great duo/band and nice people to boot.

Crap

I am thinking of buying a bicycle, but all the bikes that I look at have millions of gears - well about 18 on average. Why would any normal mortal need 18 gears on a bike? I used to cycle a lot years ago. In those days I had a BSA bike with 5 gears of which I used 3 most of the time.

Why is everything crap? I went for an eye test a couple of weeks ago and picked up the new glasses the other day - I couldn't see through the things! "you're not used to them yet" said the woman on the phone "wear them for a week and see how you get on" If I wore those things for a week I would have been blind by now. I brought them back and asked for a re-test - these tests cost £28! The optician said "oh dear those glasses are wrong, sorry we are crap, I'll order another pair" £425 spent and they got it wrong - crap opticians D&A Eltham. Later that day I went down to PC world and bought a laptop for my daughter. the spec looked good on the Advent 6552 so I handed over £400 and took it home and presented it to Sarah. All was going well until she unplugged the USB card after transfering some photos - as she pulled it from the USB slot the computer screen went blank. The laptop was dead and would not power up again. I brought it back and they gave me another one - guess what! The thing worked fine until she once again transfered her photos and pulled the card from the socket - it died! Back to PC World I trotted. Whats going on? This computer is a pile of poo" said I "yes, I know we are a crap store and we sell poop" said the assistant. "Well you can take this pile of poop back and give me an HP laptop instead" said I. The HP is working fine to date touch wood

Back to work

I went back to work today after 4 weeks off. I have been stir crazy during that time just sitting about the house, unable to do anything strenuous. I've put on about a stone in weight over the last year, giving up smoking 3 years ago didn't help!. Drastic measures are called for. I have been consuming just salad, seafood oily fish, fruit, wholemeal bread, black coffee and water for a week now and am still the same weight - i need exercise. Looking forward to the folk music session down in Richard Bridge's local The Nag's Head this sunday.

Spotify

Anybody use spotify yet? It makes your computer into a juke box. It hasn't got everything e.g. no Floyd - but it has got some great stuff just try it out!

Here's the LINK

In The Ghetto

Another two weeks off work ... Getting quite bored. I ventured down to Eltham this morning. Have you noyiced the shops in the High Street? Pound Stop, Poundland, 99p store, Lidl, peacock etc all selling crap. That along with the 6 charity shops & 5 phone shops makes it a wonderful shopping experience. I went home empty handed. I'll give it another year or so and it will be a Ghetto like Woolwich.

Operation

Had my knee operation on Friday, they brought it forward by a week! Not too bad painwise, but as expected I am unable to bend my knee yet. The main problem is that I pur my back out before the op and that is still causing problems with movement. Have been watching old episodes of Dalziel & Pasco, this is a detective series which is every bit as good as morse and I recommend it to people who enjoy good murder mystery drama.

Brrrrm...

Just back from the British Oak. A good night, loverly relapsed atmouse fear! I'm off sick again my back is in a painful spasm and my knee has ceased up. I am having surgery next week, so I won't be back at work until April. Kay's just got a nice new car, so she is happy. That's good.

Hope

Well here we are, February already. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun. Anyway I thought that I would post something here as I haven't done so since January. The Folkmob seem to be settling in nicely at their new home at the rugby club. One day i will bring my guitar down there and do something. Richard Bridge is hosting a sing-around at The Nag's Head in upper nowhere next week and I am looking forward to that. Kay is ill and awaiting further surgery that won't be for at least another 6 weeks, so we are keeping our fingers crossed. Poor ol'Theresa Findlay is back in hospital with complications following major surgery before Christmas. The theiving evil financial fat cats have drained our country dry and the money in pockets isn't worth anything. Let's hope something good happens soon.

Boiled Baby?

Did you know that Jonathon Swift once proposed that the solution to poverty in Ireland was to kill unwanted babies, then butcher them for their meat and fine leather for the rich! The main stock of catholic peasants would be farmed, allowing one male to regularly service four females and thus keep a constant supply of babies for the marketplace. The pamphlet that Swift published was called "A Modest Proposal" It was supposed to be satire, but I'm not so sure. It also mentions reducing the number of "papists among us"

French stick

Went to the rising Sun last night with my old mate Graham Atwood. I needed a pint or three after spending all day at the hospital with Kay, who is very ill at the moment. Anyway myself and Graham are sitting there enjoying our beers when a lanky frenchman comes through the door and says "Geeve mee a light!" wiggling a cigarette in his hands "sorry mate, we don't smoke" said Graham "yeah sorry,I gave it up" says I.
"you no geeve me a light, why you geeve up smoking?" he leers across at me "... You got lung canceer?" " geeve me a furkeeng light"

This onion pedaling, snail chomping, kisser of nazi's bottoms is now getting on my nerves

"Fuck off French wanker" says I

"Watch your language" says the cheese eating surrender monkey

He walks out, I follow him through the door. He runs away.

I now think I understand Ron Trueman-Border's song Everybody Hates The French.

I wonder if it was one of those French fags that smell/taste like shit that he wanted to light?