Memoirs Of A Fire Hazard

Pharmacy Farce There is a line in the Coen Brothers' excellent 'Burn After Reading' which came to mind today after a quite tortu...

I'm ill. Now I realise that is not the most upbeat start to a column (see, I'm not even entertaining that other word now) but my ram...

Yes that title is a double entendre. Well spotted. So anyway today is a bit of a special day as it the day when the great, good and Russel B...

Just a quickie today if I may Madam........... You know how last week I was talking about how staggering acts of stupidity are magnified by ...

Past My Best As is natural for any writer I sometimes wonder about the impact of this blog. No, column. I'm going to call it a column ...

I'm not here to laugh at suicide, but when having a spot of lunch (get me, they don't have lunch in Thatto Heath) with a couple of f...

'A working class hero is something to be'. So sang John Lennon in December 1970. Apparently the legendary ex-Beatle was trying to te...

I don't normally write about anything that happens at work. It's a bit of a taboo. There's far too much scope for offending the ...

I was going to write a review of this, the 2010 version of a classic tale of Greek mythology, with it's preposterously large serpentine ...

TWELVE DAYS LATER........................ Tuesday, March 23 2010. Those of you familiar with the tale of woe that was part 1 will be alarmed...

Working as I do in Liverpool, it is sometimes necessary to travel to and from work by train. For most people, this is as simple and as stra...

This is the first post on this blogspot (pardon my fuckwit language) since March 5 2009. Today's date is March 29 2010. We are a year ...

Directed by Clint Eastwood, the story of Christine Collins is a pretty harrowing affair. Angelina Jolie stars as Collins in a film apparent...

Tonight's BRIT Awards show on ITV has just finished. And Jesus Christ am I glad. Now I only caught the last 45 minutes, so please forgi...

I don't like Big Brother. No. I hate it. In my view it reaches depths of pointlessness previously unknown. What is there to like abo...

Now some people might say that at 33 I am a little old for computer games. They can go fuck themselves. Alternatively they might like to r...

Ok, so it is Thursday night. I have just been down to my local for a bit of Karaoke. Is that supposed to have a capital K? Who knows? Wh...

It's been a while so let me tell you where my inspiration to return to my blog comes from. On an otherwise idle Friday night I was flick...

The Idiot Nation On Thursday morning my girlfriend and I made the innocent mistake of trying to park the car in town. More specifically we w...

There's been a lot of this about recently. Last Saturday I attended my sixth 'do' in the space of three months. By 'do',...