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

Who am I ? …Why Blog ?

As my profile says, “I’m a WYSIWYG kind of guy (WYSYWIG..What You See Is What You Get). My given name is Patrick, I was born in 1948 and for followers of astrology, I’m a double Leo. I worked as a detached youth worker for twenty odd years (now retired) as well as having served in…

16/09/2014
Things can only get better….

Mmmm…where have I heard that before ??…Anyway, new look blog and hopefully a new begining in the Steel City Man’s witterings. THAT’S where I ve heard it before, yet another commitment to a regular blog…maybe not daily, though I will try with a little help from the Daily post at WordPress.com. I hope the lead…

11/09/2014
Join Us in the Fight For Net Neutrality

Originally posted on WordPress.com News: “Net Neutrality” is the simple but powerful principle that cable and broadband providers must treat all internet traffic equally. Whether you’re loading a blog post on WordPress.com, streaming House of Cards on Netflix, or browsing handcrafted tea cozies on Etsy, your internet provider can’t degrade your connection speed, block sites,…

10/09/2014
Saga of a BAD APPLE ! …..

For years now I have been cajoled, advised, laughed at, call it what you will…for not having ditched Windows and converted to the Holy Grail that is… iOS .. Apple … Mac, again call it what you will. I can hear my mate Dave, a colleague from my working days in the Hull City Council…

21/12/2013
ANDROID Blues…..

….Woke up this mornin’ ….. feelin’ kinda strange ….. don’t know if my small brain….can cope with all the change………….I got the Blues…..I got the ANDROID Blues…..all this newfangled technology, is going to do me down….. Well, I ask you, how can you expect someone who, when he uses a calculator, has to check out…

19/12/2013
‘Twitter ye not’…as Frankie might have said..(Dec 2013)

Well…who’d have thought?? It’s about 5 months since my last words about the ‘Twitterings’ I’ve seen. I must admit that I have become an avid ‘Twitterer, following all sorts of interesting people and organisations…meeting up with long lost friends and colleagues, as well as shouting politics. (There are more left wingers than I thought out…

09/12/2013
‘Twitter ye not’…as Frankie might have said.

I’ve decided to devote a section of the blog to Twitter and people’s ‘Twitterings’ or Tweets…I like ‘Twitterings’ better so I shall refer to their utterances as such….not because I write any Twitterings of note, nor do I find other Tweeters , Twittering about noteworthy things. There are a few noteworthy examples of the occasional good Tweet,…

24/06/2013
…Return of the Lost Blogger…

Well, Readers, if indeed there are any left!!, If what readership I once had is still awaiting with bated breath for the next installments of the RED BOX and the MEMOIRS pages, then now you can breathe normally, for here is the continuation of the most famous of all my Blogs…well, actually the only blog…

24/06/2013
Time to go home…

Well, here we are, having been shoe horned into an ultra modern Charra Banc…. I say shoehorned because if any of us ‘oldies’ mutinied and got sentenced to a flogging, there would NOT be enough room to swing the ‘cat’….if memory serves me correctly ( it’s been known NOT to lately!!) there was always loads…

07/02/2013
Operation Torbay…day 3

On Operation Torbay…day 2, the nights entertainment was a female vocalist who specialised in …dare I say it ??? …Country and Western !!! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…”I hate C&W music!!!”. In all there were five songs about lost love plus three about lost loves through Murder and other violent happenings,…

06/02/2013