Monthly Archives: July 2022

My Hips Just Lied

Posted on July 31, 2022 by S

Willy Schmitt, known to millions as the French Piece of Bill’s Hair, has not apologised to me for slapping me across the face in front of a large crowd of people. And that’s fine, because he never has slapped me … Continue reading →

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With A Little Understanding

Posted on July 30, 2022 by S

Aww, tellybox fans have been all cry face about the death of an Australian soap opera, one that was once so all pervasive to UK culture that I alluded to it in two separate songs I wrote in the early … Continue reading →

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Sweet Home West Midlands

Posted on July 29, 2022 by S

All roads now lead to Birmingham. Not the one in Alabama but the original, the definite article, you might say. The West Midlands of Britain Birmingham which is where the Blinders are usually Peaky, where good things are always bostin’, … Continue reading →

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Never Play Near The Road

Posted on July 28, 2022 by S

Bernard Cribbins has died. Four words to break the hearts of not just my generation but the preceding one and several generations since because the Cribbins has been a fixture in all our lives on TV and in seminal British … Continue reading →

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Modern Times

Posted on July 27, 2022 by S

Such times we’re living in. The England Women’s football team are through to the final of the European Championships after beating 4-0 last night, the pick of the goals being an audacious back heel from a 23 year old substitute … Continue reading →

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Frankie Say Relapse?

Posted on July 26, 2022 by S

I’m trying to come back to myself, which is an odd concept seeing as I can’t exactly go away from my physical form. Yet a traumatic childhood leaves scars and the memories of how those scars were formed either need … Continue reading →

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Tweet, Tweet My Lovely

Posted on July 25, 2022 by S

Bird noises! Bird noises are happening in the outside at half of the fives in this morning. Bird noises, I tells you. Whoever Dawn is, her chorus has been pretty darn loud this morning. I don’t remember such loud bird … Continue reading →

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The Pale Cast Of Thought

Posted on July 24, 2022 by S

When you write a couple of emails you’ve been procrastinating over for weeks, press ‘send’, experience a few minutes of satisfaction at having finally got round to something you meant to do ages ago then start to worry that you’ve … Continue reading →

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I Was There The Day The Strength Of Streaming Services Failed?

Posted on July 23, 2022 by S

Do you like elves and dwarves and men in shiny armour battling against evil? You do, well you should watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson. Not so much the three Hobbit films he made after that … Continue reading →

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And I Don’t Get Along With Anyone

Posted on July 22, 2022 by S

I see that Billy Eyelash has some new songs out. She’s a busy bee, ain’t she? Fresh from being the youngest of the Glastonbury headliners you’d have expected she might be ground down into a reviving paste for the oldest, … Continue reading →

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