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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Norwich City Council strike again
This new road marking has just come to my attention while walking Lemon round the ever longer block on his road to recovery. It’s on a suburban street some way off the city centre. I can’t see anything other than … Continue reading
Benim Tanrım!
Tuncay Şanlı is signing for Stoke City!!!! This is officially a very happy day. The Money Shot!
Posted in And She Laughed No More, She Stood There Laughing
Tagged Premiership, Stoke City, Tuncay Sanli, Turkey
24 Comments
Norwich City Basket Cases
There’s a part of me that rather wishes I were writing a book on this club. Here is a very brief precis of their past season and a bit: Glenn Roeder gets sacked about last Christmas for poor results – … Continue reading
Not officially fit yet
though it won’t be so long now; he is improvising by occasionally going for pole after three qualifying laps of kitchen, hall, dining room and front room. Dylan and Lemon, pre-several incidents
Posted in Along Came Dylan, Fetching Dylan, Walking Ollie
Tagged Dogs, greyhounds, Lemon, lurchers, Salukis, whippets
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Still blurred
The specs are not back yet. Georges Seurat was perhaps responsible for inventing, and certainly a principal practitioner of, Pointillism – painting using dots of colour. My favourite overheard gallery conversation was between a middle aged waspy American man and … Continue reading
I can’t help but feel that I’m contributing to all this
Intellectually-titled poster Mr Daftburger has alerted me to this article saying how rubbish football is which contains more than a germ of truth in it’s wry note of parody. Still, I wouldn’t want that to put anyone off taking out … Continue reading
Posted in And She Laughed No More, She Stood There Laughing
Tagged football, Premiership, Stoke City
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Norman Beresford Tebbit
I woke up this morning to hear Tebbit giving his recipe for apple pie on the Today programme. It’s been gathering pace for some time, but this, for me, was the moment when I came to realise that the media … Continue reading
Posted in From Working-Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace (A Memoir
Tagged BBC, Norman Tebbit
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Summer blogging
Let’s face it, people have got better things to do – hits are down, blog libido is low, it’s the silly season; I’m just dropping in conceptually intact cartoons and stuff before all hell breaks loose with the new autumn … Continue reading
