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The Chronicles of a Steel City Man

  • Breasts are multifunction devices

    Originally posted on rachel.blog: I made the mistake  yesterday of following the #breastfeeding hashtag on Twitter. Most of it was good reading but there were a few comments from people who objected to breastfeeding. I have never met anyone personally who claims to be offended by breastfeeding so this was new for me and quite astonishing.…

  • RUGBY UNION…the game of the God’s.

    No BLOGGING 101 tasks this weekend, evidently they allow us a rest two days a week….thank you http://Wordpress.com . So..I’ll do an everyday blog from the Steel City on this very overcast but warm September day.  It’s a perfect day for a game of RUGBY UNION, or, at my age, watching a game of RUGBY…

  • 1001 page kisses !!!

    Just a small note of a momentous happening fellow bloggers and readers…my STEELCITYMAN blog has just topped 1001 kisses !!!   Thank you all.

  • A belated update on the ‘Bad Apple Saga’…

    Well my faithfull readership…if there are any readers left !! If there are none (readers) then these words will forever drift, unread, in the ether or cyberspace. Ether sounds better..more spiritual and etheral. Anyway an update for the Bad Apple saga is overdue so I will attempt to describe what it was like when it…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ‘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…

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