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(Contains Mild Peril): So Proud, So Very, Very Proud
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Wednesday, August 08, 2012. So Proud, So Very, Very Proud. I don't want to piss on anybody's chips but. Let's have a look at the amounts of funding from UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics. Surprise surprise rowing gets the most money followed by surprise surprise cycling. Both events need expensive equipment, £20,000 per boat, £20,000 per bike. Neither rowing nor cycling are mass participant sports. You can imagine the schools that have rowing clubs! Follow me on Twitter.
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(Contains Mild Peril): November 2011
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Friday, November 18, 2011. Notes for a Comedy Writing Workshop - Introduction. That awful smell, Julian? WAIT FOR JULIAN TO REPLY. ADLIB CONVERSATION. SEE WHERE IT TAKES US). Before we go any further, shall we introduce ourselves? I'm Bernard. Yes, that's my real name. (WAIT FOR LAUGHTER) I was born to do comedy, as you can see. Shame I'm so misunderstood. Born at the wrong time, you see. Make you laugh. (LISTEN TO EACH OF THE GROUP IN TURN, ADLIBBING FUNNIES). Stuff t...
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THE DIGBETH COACH STATION OF BLOGGING. Wednesday, November 17, 2004. I wish to consider the disc jockey Timothy West-Ward, a 59-year-old clergyman's son from Norfolk (was his father an East Anglican vicar? No, I think what he is implying is not that he is big, cumbersome and will eat you out of house and home, but that he has a fearsome reputation and will tear you limb from limb, should the moment arise. Particularly if you are a baby. Should we take Mr West-Ward's claims seriously? It's a dog's life.
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Betty's Utility Room
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THE DIGBETH COACH STATION OF BLOGGING. Thursday, February 09, 2012. DOING THE RIGHT THING. Some pigs at a metaphorical trough yesterday. After shocking claims were made today. The results will make you feel nauseous or fall into convulsions. Subjects highlighted include:. The man from Aberdeen who refused to sell a Box Brownie camera handed down to him by his "ald grandad" in his will in order to pay for a bus fare to attend a voluntary placement interview fifty miles away. His response? The couple who l...
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(Contains Mild Peril): London Does It Again!
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Friday, August 31, 2012. London Does It Again! So now we have the Paralympics. It's going to be the best Paralympics ever. Because it's here. That's why it's going to be the best ever. But as a spectacle, it's really difficult to get worked up about. How can you when you have admiration for every single participant? How can the competitive emotions come to the fore when you're applauding everybody in the race, willing them all to do a personal best? Follow me on Twitter.
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(Contains Mild Peril): December 2011
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Monday, December 26, 2011. Neigh, Neigh and Thrice Neigh. One of the awkward things about being the child of divorced parents is the extended family. I've never got on with my stepdad's sons and their families. But my mum and sister do and yesterday we were the only ones left out of Christmas Dinner at my stepbrother's. And so to the presents. Not any old play, though. It's War Horse. I am now 50 and feel the same way and I'm sure I will if I reach 80. But we have a ge...
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(Contains Mild Peril): Opening Medicine
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Sunday, July 29, 2012. Everybody loved it. I had glowing reports beforehand from people who'd seen or been involved in the dress rehearsals and when the time came for the actual televisual feast, Twitter was awash with pride. This was Britain at its best, the stuff that makes us all proud to be part of the greatest nation on earth. Boris Johnson was crying "hot tears of patriotic pride". Great Ormond Street is a symbol of how we look after our people from the cradle to...
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(Contains Mild Peril): May 2012
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Friday, May 25, 2012. If All You Ever Do Is Business. Our local school recently became an academy and this is the bloke who the kids I see during the week are grateful to. He seems like a nice man with none of the business bullshit you'd expect. Doesn't it make you want to be young again? Sunday, May 20, 2012. London is for Lovers. I'm getting used to travelling on the tube. All the lonely people, where do they all come from? Nutters, that's who! Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
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(Contains Mild Peril): Bundle!
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Saturday, September 08, 2012. I'm currently enjoying The 100 Worst People On Twitter. A necessary antidote to all those awful Famous People To Follow On Twitter you get in the broadsheets. I say I'm enjoying it, but it's led me to investigate online quarrels, some of them long-standing. This was entertaining at first but now I've had enough. Wondering how many people right now are consciously twatting up their own tweets in an effort to get on that list. What's Happeni...
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(Contains Mild Peril): September 2012
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Listening To Marvin All Night Long. Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Hey Eddie, how come you're such a big hit with the girls? Eddie Izzard, there. Thinking out of the box. This "can do" attitude, all over the world. People, all over the world, eating well, training hard, thinking out of the box. Changing things politically by going to the gym for five hours a day, pounding the streets, spinning those wheelchair wheels till they think their arms are going to drop off. Saturday, September 08, 2012. I don't ca...
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