The Open Wound

Our traffic wardens are a bit harsh here in The Shires.  One of them had a previous career as a Drill Sergeant for the US Marine Corps and he has brought that same discipline to our gold paved streets here in sleepy, greedy Middle England. Walking home from work I noticed a shiny bubble of [...]

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I’ve just seen this great show on the TV.  It’s about six young, single, New York friends.  There are three girls and three boys and they all live together but they don’t have sex with each other, well not in the early days anyway.  The boys are called Chuckler, Boy and Russ.  The girls are [...]

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This film depicts the heroic defence of the pass of Thermopylae by 300 Spartan soldiers against a massive Persian army.  As it happens there were about 1,700 other dudes helping them so really it should be called ‘The 2,000′ but perhaps I’m just splitting hairs.  1,000 of these other dudes were listed as slaves,  that’s [...]

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    Thousands of people who complained about the facilities at a Barbra Streisand concert in County Kildare in July are to be compensated. Traffic jams, seating problems, a lack of stewarding and mucky conditions led to 1,144 letters of complaint representing about 2,500 people.  BBC News 735 of the complaint letters came from Barbara [...]

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The wife has been to see ’Atonement’ at the cinema and was keen to discuss the finer points of this dramatic masterpiece. “When she gets out of the fountain her dress is so wet that you can see her front bottom.  She’s got a lot of hair for a skinny girl!” “Perhaps she’s wearing a merkin,” I suggested. [...]

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