I had occasion to stroll in the glorious sunshine to a city farm in Walton just off Rice Lane, Liverpool. But this isn’t about the city farm.
Month: April 2011
Derren Brown let me down
Warning: Never ever look this man in the eyes! I have to state that an air of disappointment hangs over me following a viewing of
The death of the single
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
People I don’t know are getting married
I guess I have to be typical at this point and do a piece about the Royal Wedding. Ok, I can do that. I don’t
Just an Illusion
The mind is a powerful tool, yet it remains so easy to trick, confuse and manipulate. This fact doesn’t seem of much concern to most
Earth Day bollox from 1970
It was recently Earth Day (22nd April). Not to be confused with the pointless ‘Earth Hour’ when mad people from madland around the world voluntarily
Fearing the computer
There was a time when we ‘feared’ the computer. I don’t mean back in the 1950s and 1960s when, for some reason, we assumed it
Happy Aggressive Secularism
It’s that time of year when the closed-minded celebrate the most bizarre of the fairy-story aspects of their religion that they accept without question; the
England, my England
Goodbye to my England, So long my old friendYour days are numbered, being brought to an endTo be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that’s fineBut don’t
Empty skies, happier people?
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
CB Radio makes a comeback
It seems hard for da yoof to imagine, but there was a time before we had constant and instant communication through things like Facebook, texts
BBC2 Programme for Stoners
Ok, so I keep funny hours. I don’t do the drink and drugs thing, it’s just that my lifestyle means my hours are different to
Nobody’s fleeing Climate Change
As the free thinking world wakes more and more to the whole Climate Change scam – the pretending that a) the Climate is in some
Why ignore the inter-dimensional beings?
I’ve never understood why humans generally don’t discuss what happens to them at night. I can only assume it’s because they are in denial. The
My sofa trouble with a 27 year old girl
The other day I ended up sitting for a while with a petite 27 year old girl on her leather sofa. I was slowly feeling
Beware the racist radio anoraks
As a radio anorak with an interest in today’s pirate radio scene I spend a lot of my daily gaze within highly active forums that
Loud birds
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
A feline sense of perspective
I’m a cat person. Not a dog person. But, cats, right, when we are at our most vulnerable, can be so very cruel. ~ ~
Children of god were literally children?
Tales of early playground bullying? The Torah and the Bible recount a time when humans were far much more immature and, literally, younger. Very rarely
The truth is up there!
Yep. Seems like an appropriate ceiling for a ‘smoking room’ to me. Heh heh. ~ ~ There’s plenty more, plus the option to comment on
Word up on the Word Salad
There is an excellent episode of the superbly funny mid-2000s series Boston Legal during which one of the lead characters, a high profile lawyer, suddenly
Science and Environment shouldn’t be seen together
When you put two words together into a phrase like “Love and Marriage” or “Horse and Carriage” you kind of expect them to actually somehow
Ofcom 87.7, home of the hits?
Sounds like an ideal time for a raid! Londoners have a choice of a hundred or so radio stations. They don’t know it of course,
Isle of Man International Broadcasting Madness
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
Drunks are neither fun nor funny
I was at a meeting the other day, maybe the sixth and last of a number we had all had together. Most of us hadn’t
Let’s stop smokers killing normal people
Not even these packets will stop the cigarette junkies There was a time when TV programmes had people smoking on them. Ok, so they still
What could you do in a room like this?
This is a photo of a room just after I had it built, installed, and finally sorted out. It took ages, man, ages, and I
Let’s execute those who won’t complete the Census
Later this week, selected neighbours will be knocking on the doors of people living nearby who have not yet returned their Census forms, gently asking
Oldest Person in the World Quiz
Being only 19, and living quite a full and busy youthful life, sometimes it helps ground me by talking to old people about what their
Arrrr, who’s a lovely pussy-cat then?
This is one of my cats. Her name is Butty. She is so called because she uses her head to ‘butt’ like a steam train
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