The Chronicles of a Steel City Man
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‘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,…
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…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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 ??…
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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…
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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…
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