Words of…..er, wisdom? “I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right” Keir Starmer “My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I forgot to do” Hugh Hefner “My diet plan: make all of my friends cupcakes, the fatter they get, the thinner I look” Meghan Markle “My wallet is like an…
This post was originally published on 2 August 2014, about two years into what I euphemistically call my blogging career (and definitely not ‘journey’). Here I muse on how things are/were going blogwise. Simon Schama’s Swampy Suck Oh, hi there. I thought that might get your attention… Today’s instalment of ‘365 Days of Writing Prompts’…
This week, Jim is looking for the the title track of an album. My very first thought was Neil Young’s ‘After The Goldrush’, but checking back, it seemed I’d already used it in an earlier post. A shame, but no problem – I went for the gentle, lilting ‘Harvest’ instead. Both those albums were on…
Who said that? I want to break free Ghislaine Maxwell No more the fool Charlie Chaplin Food, glorious food Mr. Creosote The Princess Diaries The (only a) Duchess of Sussex The name of the game …is football: NOT soccer. You can’t hurry love I’m sorry, this has never happened before. Kiss me Kate Meghan Markle…
This was originally posted on 27 July 2015. For the uninitiated, it is a parody (but an affectionate one) of a long-running column in the UK satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’. I haven’t looked at a copy of The Eye in years so I don’t know whether Dave Spart still features. What I will say, though,…
This week, Jim is looking for a track from a second album. That’s a pretty broad field but Madame had just happened to mention The Kinks as I set to my task, so here is the closing track on Side 1 of their second album, ‘Kinda Kinks’, which was released in March 1965. Surely it…
“A rose by any other name…” Nitro A moonlight canoe ride. Skinny Legs A flamingo. Iron A pressing engagement. Mailman A tautology. BoJo Oxygen thief. Teflon Tony Truth thief. Iron Lady Milk thief. J.Lo A depressed member of the species Garrulus glandarius. Smokin’ Younger members of the same family. Bottler Brown Geordie brewery employee. Fibbing…
Forty Two “Granpa?” (yes, it’s that boy again), “What’s the meaning of existence?” I know my limitations. A question that has occupied the finest minds of Homo Sapiens – and, for all we know, other species as well (those dolphins are no slouches) – for thousands of years was hardly going to receive a definitive answer on the way…
The slightly morbid theme of Song Lyric Sunday for this week is to present a song that was released after the death of the performer. It’s often been said (mostly, I suspect, by the marketing guys at the record company) that dying is a really excellent career move – although, of course, the artistes themselves…
Bleedin’ LLLLLLLLL….. Lunkhead Well duh. The head of a lunk. Lugubrious Lugubrious? Moi? Lickspittle Essential quality for members of White House staff. Lampoon A more humane, but totally ineffective, means of capturing a whale. Lollywater What you get when a Mivvi melts. Lollypopper Lolita’s father. Lumpen Manipulable element of the proletariat. Loofah The scarcity of…
the only deadhead in the hameau 