Firstly are you ok? I did consider whether or not to write my annual round up this year, given the horrendous things happening in the world right now, but it’s always been a kind of yearly catharsis for me so I’ll forge ahead as per usual, avoiding the topics of war and genocide because there’s […]
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Three years ago today Hobson came into my life. He’d been rescued from a council pound by Team Poundie just 24 hours before his 7 days were up and he would be put to sleep. I can never thank them enough for both saving Hobson’s life and bringing him to me. After all that he’d
I’ve had three videos go viral this week, and loads over the last few years. When I used to work for production companies PR agencies would spend a fortune trying to make a ‘viral’ video. All of them got literally no views. Teams of ‘creatives’ would spend weeks scripting it, analysing other videos, running their
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1991 – Terminator 2 is released. It was a Tuesday night. Myself, along with fellow students Iain, Marc & Chris took my Vauxhall Viva (a.k.a Road Warrior) to the Preston multiplex cinema to see the long awaited sequel to The Terminator. Needless to say we were impressed. Arriving back at the student house I shared
The sun, the moon, the stars, the sea Are so immense compared to me I’m just a spot, a speck of dust In space & time I’m nothing much One day I’ll join the Mother Earth And rot away within the dirt Then Where my flesh has decomposed A whole new crop of weeds will
1. Vault. A bank robbery is interrupted by a zombie outbreak. A disparate groups of people make it to the vault. One has been bitten, but he’s also the robber and he has the gun. The oxygen is running out, but what is beyond the vault’s door? 2. Jack to the Future, A scientist decides
In the Parkview home for the elderly God played solitaire. Nurse. Cuppa tea. God. Bless you my dear, anything on the telly? Nurse. At six we put Songs of Praise on. God. Never mind. I think I’ll stick to cards. Nurse. Maybe you’d like a game with our new resident. Here he comes. God. Christs on
In 1975 saucy superstar Jack Ladd (Robin Askwith) falls off his ladder filming Revelations of a Window Cleaner. He spends the next 40 years in a coma being visited everyday by his most ardent fan Fanny Waters, who takes great pride in maintaining his iconic hairstyle. He miraculously awakens in 2015, a 25 year old
crusty (PERSON) noun [C] UK INFORMAL a young person who does not live in a way that society considers normal, typically with untidy or dirty clothes and hair, and no regular job or permanent home: Lots of crusties came into town for the festival. Cambridge English Dictionary The Second Law of Thermodynamics “the entropy
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Monday 27th April 1998 Reached the unstunning conclusion that if you have to get up at 3.30 am, take an hour’s taxi ride to the airport, then have a three and-a-half hour flight to Gran Canaria it’s probably unwise to drink lots of lager and have a huge curry from the Bhaji Take Out the
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