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Booze, news and views from a drunken opinionated fool who can't spell very well, may well repeat himself, and can't blame it on dislexia
Saturday 3 February 2024
a chicken made out of egg shells
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Friday 2 February 2024
RIP Brother Wayne Kramer MC5 - Kick Out The Jams - Live Tartar Field, 1970
Thursday 1 February 2024
the new european trump cover - not again
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flat earthers are idiots
Wednesday 31 January 2024
NHS waiting lists - a reminder (again)
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Tuesday 30 January 2024
donald trump's fake tan
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Monday 29 January 2024
magical penis wine
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Sunday 28 January 2024
Another lad dead RIP Gaz Russell
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the travaux is no more
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Saturday 27 January 2024
when the squares mingle with the rolling stones
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Some Say (I Got Devil) - RIP Melanie Safka
Friday 26 January 2024
st james' park, newcastle back in the day
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Friday 19 January 2024
RIP Mary Weiss -- Shangri-La's - 'Give Him a Great Big Kiss'
Thursday 18 January 2024
pakistan international airways twin towers advert
This is an advert for Pakistan International Airways from 1979, featuring an aeroplane silhouette on the twin towers. After what followed, it now looks very disturbing.
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art garfunkel looking very old
I saw these photographs earlier and if they hadn't been linked and captioned, l would not have recognised Art Garfunkel in the top picture, singing with his son. I loved Simon and Garfunkel, but hadn't seen any recent interviews or photos with Art, and obviously l know he is no longer a spring chicken, but this still came as a bit of a shock. I know everyone's getting older and everyone ages (apart from me of course), but our mortality can be a brutal curse, and a reminder that everyone's going to die at some stage (once again - apart from me).
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Wednesday 17 January 2024
reform's strict vetting process
'Our strict vetting process'
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Knobheads. Never vote Tory (or Reform)
Sam Cooke & Soul Stirrers - Nearer to Thee (Live at the Shrine 1955)
Tuesday 16 January 2024
T.Rex - 20th Century Boy (Full Version) [HD]
marc bolan storms the 1978 record mirror polls
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Monday 15 January 2024
I think michelle mone might need to stop posting on twitter
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charlie brown type david bowie
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Sunday 14 January 2024
never buy the sun part 986754876986
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me after todays football
Me trying to look ecstatic after the Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur draw. As I'm always a glass half full kind of fellow, at least Manchester United are still undefeated this year an are technically still on for the doubule. Pints all round!
Saturday 13 January 2024
Friday 12 January 2024
demolishing the johnson's factory, bootle
Many happy memories of my childhood are ingrained with the Johnson Factory in Bootle, as l lived on Markfield Road, and if l looked left on leaving my front door the top picture is what l would see. I no longer live in Bootle, and to some people it may be an eyesore, but to me it's part of the history of the place, was opened in 1910, and in my eyes it looked magnificent. However, it had been derelict for a while, and is now half demolished (or by now maybe has been completely demolished), but l think it's a shame, and it's a pity it couldn't have been repurposed for flats or some kind of apartments, which l know was (or still is) an idea (see bottom pictures).
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the waterboys - under the skin magazine
I put this magazine together years ago and sold it at The Waterboys gigs around 1989 / 1990. I gave a lot of the left over copies away for free at a Liverpool Waterboys gig a few years later, but looking at these listings that are currently on ebay and a Japanese site, maybe l should have saved a load to booster my pension. Then again, l don't really think any fortune awaits there, and life's way too short.
The whole magazine has been scanned here
Wednesday 10 January 2024
george best at the world cup final 1966
I either didn't know, (or must have forgotten) that George Best was at the World Cup Final in 1966 at Wembley, watching England defeat West Germany 4-2. I've certainly never seen a photograph of him at the game.
Until now.
Toodle pipTuesday 9 January 2024
james blunt being funny (again)
I haven't got much time for James Blunt's music, but he can be funny and self deprecating on twitter. Here's a recent example that made me laugh.
living in a minimmalistic way
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Monday 8 January 2024
keith richards is unwell
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rip franz beckenbauer
I had the pleasure of living in Germany for a few years back in the day, and although l preferred Borussia Monchengladbach featuring the magnificent Gunter Netzer, the Bayern Munich team at that time was something to behold, with Der Bomber Gerd Muller up front, and the sublime Kaiser himself, Franz Beckenbauer pulling the strings. Another great now sadly gone, but never to be forgotten by the likes of me.
When football was better.
Sunday 7 January 2024
UUTAi Olena - Blessing of Nature. Благословение ПриРоды
inheritance tax cuts - a reminder
The inheritance cuts will certainly help his own family and his rich friends, but not many others.
Saturday 6 January 2024
The Waterboys - Beverly Penn (2004 Remaster)
watching darlington and manchester united years ago
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I'm old enough to remember ....Liverpool 1954
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Friday 5 January 2024
galactus gets my vote
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