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Vote for me
I’ll set you free. By request of Old Stokie who suddenly doesn’t want owt to do with politics or the beautiful game.
Posted in Along Came Dylan, Fetching Dylan, Walking Ollie
Tagged dog-rescue, Dogs, greyhounds, lurchers, Old Stokie, Salukis
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Fulham
What a magnificent performance that was last night, it easily won out over Debate III – The Law of Diminishing Returns. For a short while in the early eighties I used to lodge with a Fulham-supporting friend round the corner … Continue reading
One for Gordon’s iPod
Of course, this seems slightly cruel, but I don’t think it’s too bigoted.
I can’t talk
I speak about you lot behind your backs all the time : )
Posted in From Working-Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace (A Memoir
Tagged bigotry, Gaffgate
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Election Speshial
I have been researching the main party leaderships and discovered that onli one did not go to publik skool. I thought of holding this fakt in favour of G Brown, until I had the other thort: but who is my … Continue reading
My mate Will
sent me a slightly dubious tip* regarding a horse and by way of compensation sent me these through the post. Can anybody tell me what they are pls? * he is normally cast iron
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The great writer Alan Sillitoe has just died, aged 82. He was one of my formative influences, writing in a working-class register that angry young boys growing up in a brutal industrial cities in the 1970s could make some sense … Continue reading
London marathon
Could anything be more bloody conventional than this whole aggravating event? Because the BBC insists on covering it for hours on end, we’re supposed to think it’s a British Institution like the Changing of the Guard. It isn’t, it’s some … Continue reading
Bless the Week
They all have good and bad bits; this one hasn’t been too awful.
Gerhard Richter
Answer the question, are you intending to cut or raise funding for oil paint in tubes? And are there to be quotas for EU painters in our galleries and studios? Abstraktes Blid (1994)
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