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I think I’m officially decrepit…
The other evening I dropped in to the local Asda on the way home from the office in order to purchase the stuff that I was advised at my ‘Well Man’ appointment this morning to avoid; bread, danish pastries, sausage rolls…the stuff that makes life life and not existence… Anyway, there is a problem with
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Michael Meacher – another of the old school leaves us
I was sad today to hear of the death of Michael Meacher, left wing Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton. He was one of the last of the ‘old school’ Labour politicians who showed true Socialist conviction, having been first elected in 1970 and serving under Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Tony Blair, and
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Mid-life crisis? Don’t mind if I DON’T…
I’ve recently concluded that I couldn’t handle a mid-life crisis. Apart from the fact that I would have had to have had an arithmetically accurate mid-life crisis about 14 years ago, I just don’t think I’m cut out for the role and nor do I want to be, if this list of behaviours is anything
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Ideas mean shit…it’s doing it that counts!
In my last post I described how my mortality had snuck up on me and dumped a rather large poo in my living room in the fact that in 15 years time I’ll be pushing 70. See here for my thoughts…they have some relevance to the origin of this post. I carried on thinking about
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Where did all the time go?
The other day I was sitting, drinking tea, thinking of nothing in particular when the following thought entered in to my head. “In less than 20 years you’ll be 70 years old. When did THAT happen?” I guess the unspoken ‘other shoe dropping’ of that thought was ‘…assuming you live that long.’. The thought that
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Back in to the fold
From the mid-1980s until 1995 I was a card carrying member of the Labour Party. Not NEW Labour – old Labour – the Red Flag singing, Socialist leaning, nationalising party that I grew up with as a child in the 1960s and a teenager in the 1970s. Warts and all. I joined Labour in about
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…the laughter of our children
As an regular readers of my Blog know, I’m an irregular and typically infrequent poster. But, I concluded that I really need to pull my finger out again and on entry to my Blog was greeted by a reminder of an unfinished post from earlier this year, about the late and frequently unlamented Margaret Thatcher.
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Single Sex Marriage….
Well, you know what they say about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread….here I go. Normally I don’t post too much on social issues, but this grew out of a Facebook post I made on a friend’s wall, and it seemed to be sensible just to put it here as well. On the
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Seven of Nine and the Illuminati
This blog post started life this summer, after the Olympics. It was a time of great celebration in Britain; after all, according to some people we'd dodged at least three bullets over the Olympic period – a nuclear terror attack, the invasion of Earth by inter-dimensional aliens through a portal opened by the Olympic Opening Ceremony or an uprising of the forces of the Illuminati.