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Gadjo Dilo: April 2010
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Is a 1997 movie by Tony Gatlif about a Westerner who comes to Romania in search of a singer whose voice he loves. It's title means Stupid/Crazy Foreigner. In Romani. What happens to him next is my story. Thursday, April 29, 2010. To solve The Transylvanian Problem. Set a ball of historical reassessment. And thereby get on everybody’s tits. Maybe we can convince both sides that it simply doesn’t matter! The only way to do this is trivialisation. Nice to see you; to see you. Who works as a dictator. In uni...
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Gadjo Dilo: January 2010
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Is a 1997 movie by Tony Gatlif about a Westerner who comes to Romania in search of a singer whose voice he loves. It's title means Stupid/Crazy Foreigner. In Romani. What happens to him next is my story. Saturday, January 30, 2010. They Made Me Do It! There’s a meme going round – e.g. Scarlet. 8211; which asks one "to share three classic movie moments that have, in some shape or form, made me buy things/do things/think things that perhaps I shouldn't have." This is going to sound horribly. I did end up c...
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TeamRobinson: December 2009
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Thursday, December 31, 2009. I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing. So we hurtle towards 2010 and I feel a review of the year coming on. I have travelled, and visited some new places and some old places. I have made new friends, reconnected with old friends, met one friend in the flesh for the first time, and been neglectful of some others. I have been happy at work, cross at work, disappointed at work. I hope the hostilities cease. I would like to loose weight. I ought to try to drink less. I am going to a f...
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Gadjo Dilo: August 2009
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Is a 1997 movie by Tony Gatlif about a Westerner who comes to Romania in search of a singer whose voice he loves. It's title means Stupid/Crazy Foreigner. In Romani. What happens to him next is my story. Sunday, August 30, 2009. Book Review #1: Writing Therapy by Tim Atkinson. WARNING: THIS POSTS DISCUSSES LITERATURE AND CONTAINS NO PERCEIVABLE ATTEMPTS AT HUMOUR. Tim Atkinson is one of our number, a blogger who goes by the name of The Dotterel. And also writes Bringing up Charlie. Friday, August 21, 2009.
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No Good Boyo: Integrae servandae
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Y gŵr yn erbyn y byd. Monday, November 12, 2012. BBC types, like Eastenders, the panda-eyed weatherman in Groundhog Day and wrong-trousered Alpine symphonist. Anton Bruckner, wake up every day and make the same mistake, as I've noted before. They derided my advice over Brand, Ross and Sachs - who really should be a firm of Borders solicitors specialising in sheep-rustling. And spurned it over Savile. Police, Camera, Traction! Round to visit them in hospital. I'm a Celebrity, Get It Out Of Me! Viewers wit...
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No Good Boyo: August 2012
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Y gŵr yn erbyn y byd. Sunday, August 19, 2012. Facebook, the simpleton's way to start your day, has let the mask slip of late. Big-palmed creator Mark Zuckerberg pitched it as a sort of computer smoothie. No chemicals, no plastic wrapping, no monthly book selection blocking up your letter box, no bailiffs biffing your old gran because you skipped the small print. Lacking the trip-switch betwixt brain and fingers. Brazen blogpost pluggers like me. T-shirts and get messing with some minds. Button. This...
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No Good Boyo: March 2012
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Y gŵr yn erbyn y byd. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. The clock struck eleven. Yet again as Jethro Gill shouldered his way into the British Film Institute. It's now called Old Peculiar's Pelicular Panopticon, he had to remind himself. And it was only nine-thirty on a damp March morning. A trifle inclement,". As the wireless had chuckled in Banter - the new English standard. It was always eleven o'clock - opening time - since the Great Shiving. Jethro muttered as he rifled through the in-tray. Had time only to...
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No Good Boyo: Song at the ear's turning
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Y gŵr yn erbyn y byd. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Song at the ear's turning. It was the Feast of St Trisant, the patron of Welsh rustlers, and I was celebrating down The Tethered Goat with a few honoured guests of our guild. Ron the Barman happened to be marking the 60th anniversary of his desertion from the Essex Irregulars - "Told me to stop shooting Dutchmen, so I legged it and carried on. Got a medal from someone - not sure who". Spirits and hemlines rode high as talk turned to New Year resolutions.
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No Good Boyo: Scott of Arabia
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Y gŵr yn erbyn y byd. Saturday, November 24, 2012. A mix-up at Thomas Cook finds Capt Robert Falcon Scott and his chums deposited on the shores of Arabia Deserta. Undeterred by blistering heat, expiring huskies and the constant chafing of sand under their thermals, the men of the Terra Nova Expedition trudge off, Aqaba-bound, shod in tennis rackets and furs. With foul pipes clenched in sunbleached teeth, they drag sleds of fermenting pemmican and donkey corpses across the Devil's Anvil. Does Lawrence ask...
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No Good Boyo: December 2012
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Y gŵr yn erbyn y byd. Friday, December 28, 2012. The Mighty Norman Tebbit once compared our prime minister, Mr Cameron, to Pol Pot, quondam. Leader of the gangster element in the Khmer Rouge. Now even I thought Lord Norman had allowed his rhetoric off the leash on this occasion, as Dave and Pol seem to have little in common apart from cherubic looks and good connections at Court. In reverse order and a miasma of hot air. It's easy to mock glasnost. With a British passport and return ticket. The aim was t...