Monthly Archives: February 2013

During my rock-climbing days, spending regular weekends hanging from a rock face in the Llanberris Pass and our evenings taste testing the ales in a pub in Capel Curig, I remember one of my chums teasing our barmaid who was the … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you but I need cheering up, so today there will be no whistleblowing, no politics, no horsemeat,  no windfarms, no global warming, no BBC, NHS or even Jimmy Saville who by the way is still dead.  … Continue reading →

The beautiful serene one is always telling me that I have a smart mouth; I went to my Dental Surgery today for my bi-annual check-up on my primordial gnashers to be told that my Dental Surgeon was not in today … Continue reading →

I’m sorry to get on my Eurosceptic soapbox again, but reading today’s latest Euro-zone crisis with today’s dismal growth figures which hide future tensions between Germany and France.  Much of the media still paint critics of the Euro-zone and its currency as Eurosceptic nut jobs … Continue reading →

Before you start criticising my blogs I must ask you to understand that I don’t have an attitude, I have a personality that you can’t handle!  The militant homosexual lobby having won gay marriage have moved on to other targets.  … Continue reading →

All right so I am a gadget freak! I think it must have started with cameras or it might have been cars or could it have been boats?  To the exasperation of my long suffering wife I have flitted from … Continue reading →

This week my least favourite politician (and I have quite a few to choose from) resigned his seat.  The media have made the most of his misfortune.  His unforgivable crime was not getting caught for fairly trivial offence of speeding, … Continue reading →