Category: A Day in the Life of a ‘Steel City’ Man…

Operation TORBAY…(day 2)

Well Chris and I have recovered from the never ending journey from the ‘Steel City’ to the land of clots …sorry…clotted cream, with all traces of the dreaded ‘Numb Bum’ gone, to find the weather is indeed a few degrees warmer down here, and the sunshine is in plentiful supply. I didn’t realise how true…

04/02/2013
We’re off !!!!

We’re off, We’re off, we’re off in a motor car, 50 cops are after us , And we don’t know where we are, Oh, we’re off, we’re off ……etc, etc… Right my loyal readership, we are indeed off….not in a motor car as in the song, but a Chara banc, or sharra bang as we…

03/02/2013
RSS FEED…..

JUST A QUICK NOTE…..If you try and grab an RSS feed to keep up with developments in my Blog, please note that the RSS feed grab only works in Internet Explorer …. If you use Google Chrome as your browser, then unfortunately, the RSS feed grab will NOT work…that’s because Google in it’s selfish wisdom…

16/05/2012
RE: Ken and Doris…..

I’ve been incommunicado for a while…indeed, one of my last posts was about the election battle between Ken and Boris, sorry, DORIS… for the honour of being the Lord Mayor of London. I really did expect the people of London to exercise a modicum of common sense, a soupcon even…and elect Ken … but did they ??…

12/05/2012
WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY…

SATURDAY 28th APRIL is WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY …. a day to remember all the workers, worldwide who died whilst earning a crust. Every worker who ever died whilst working will be remembered today. Not by the Capitalist system that used their labour to make profit…the supporters of that system will not even be aware that people…

28/04/2012
Doris..Ken……Ken …Doris?

WEDNESDAY 25TH APRIL….1030HRS. As the race for City Hall (LONDON) intensifies, Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone, Brian Paddick and Jenny Jones clashed over transport fares, crime and phone hacking….what a rude plonker Boris Johnson is…how did the people of London ever vote for him in the first place??? As a Yorkshire bloke, I don’t have a…

25/04/2012
NO ROOM AT THE TROUGH !!!

A VERY APT FOLLOW ON ARTICLE from my previous RED BOX post, AFFORDABLE HOUSING……. It now seems that the policies of this fascist Tory led coalition excuse for a government are beginning to bite where it hurts…right at the heart of the most vulnerable in society. It appears that if you live in the borough…

25/04/2012
Yet another day in A&E !!!

Just when I thought it safe to take off my boots and relax … The call came from mum for help with dad….He had collapsed in the bathroom, could we come down. So Chris and I dropped everything and rushed round to dad’s place. It didn’t look good when we arrived, Dad was unconscious and…

21/04/2012
OLYMPIC MANIA

The whole bloody country seems to have gone Olympic mad !!! Well not All the country, but mainly the people who live in or near London…or those who live elsewhere and can afford the return rail fair for a family…or those lucky enough to have won the ticket lottery. There seems to be a very…

18/04/2012
AFFORDABLE HOUSING ???

I can well remember the day , many years ago when, as a small boy, I witnessed the joy of my parents as we moved out of our private rented house and took delivery of a brand new, never been lived in by anyone else, Council house…24, Lowedges Drive, Sheffield 8….it had a luxurious bathroom…

12/04/2012