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blogging: 01/10/13 - 01/11/13
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Monday, 21 October 2013. Some funny in a list. So the Telegraph wrote a "Top ten comedians to follow on Twitter thing" .like they do. Agreed with some thought they'd missed some others. Here's some of mine. They're not all professional comedians but they're all bloody funny. Effectively what I'm saying is, I think I'm 'better than the Telegraph'. He writes "a bit" and campaigns against the use of the Y word in football. He get's a lot of crap for that. Two years later: Turbo. Recursaphobia is the fear of...
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blogging: 01/08/14 - 01/09/14
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Friday, 29 August 2014. The kitchen phone was ringing as Sarah came in through the front door. It was pouring with rain outside and she dropped her coat and bag in the hallway as she ran to answer it. 8220;Hello” she panted into the phone. Her husband John’s voice was gently teasing “I’d thought you left me, that was ringing for ages. I nearly gave up”. 8220;Oh hi I’m so sorry I was walking the dog. I just got through the door”. 8220;Well that’s a relief, “ He said. 8220;Thank you Sarah” he said &#...
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blogging: 01/12/14 - 01/01/15
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Saturday, 13 December 2014. In cyberspace everyone can hear you scream. Photo credit rickygervais.com. December 2014 the final episode of “Derek” will be broadcast on C4. So far the show has received an Emmy Nomination and this week a Golden Globe nomination for Ricky Gervais’s performance. There is what can best be described as a range of views applied to the show. In the UK Gervais is viewed a lot less kindly by the critics than he is in the US. In many respects this is cultural. Now Gervais has risen ...
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blogging: 01/09/13 - 01/10/13
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013. On Sunday night we went to see About Time. When the film had finished it took me an hour to stop crying. I eventually stopped and. Later my 19 year old daughter Lizzy, drifted into the kitchen and asked what the film was like. When I started telling her, I started crying again. She put her arms around me, like my Mum used to and I had the clearest memory of being a child again. The film is just so beautiful. Tim at the age of 21 learns the secret of the men in his family, from...
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blogging: 01/03/13 - 01/04/13
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Saturday, 16 March 2013. Spite addicts and the haters who love them. It was comic relief last night. A great British institution, which has marked its 25th Anniversary by doing what it always does. It takes fundraising on crucial issues and it engages the country through the prism of our best-loved comedians and musicians. However it also gives us a chance to view Britain at it’s worst and the place to find this darker side of those of us who are “shitbrits” is in the undiluted, unedite...8232;It has als...
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blogging: 01/12/13 - 01/01/14
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Monday, 23 December 2013. For Mum who would have been 80 years old today. Mum on a break Nairobi 1957. My mum would have been 80 years old today. I wanted to try not to feel sad but to celebrate the fact that I was lucky enough to know her. It’s impossible to convey how lovely she was or to try and encapsulate her life into a blog but I wanted to mark today by explaining what she meant to me. Child in a hospital, rather than at home. Mum's parents on their way to a wedding 1957. Her mum took her to the s...
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blogging: 01/01/15 - 01/02/15
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Sunday, 11 January 2015. Sue Marsh -The blogger, blogged. Friends, journos, activists Lend me your ears I come here to bury Sue Marsh not to praise her". Or rather I would, if I was of a judgemental persuasion. And I'm not, so I won't. As we all know by now, Sue has decided to accept a job with Maximus and the reaction by some in the disability activism community on line, can best be summed up in the words of another Maximus "I will have my vengeance". many are angry and giving vent to their rage. People...
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blogging: 01/04/13 - 01/05/13
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Friday, 26 April 2013. How can you tell me you're Tory? Reworked version of Streets of London by Ralph Mctell ). Have you seen the old man. In the closed-down market. Kicking up the papers,. With his worn out shoes? The stigma of his illness,. Took his job, and home and future,. So how can you tell me you're Tory,. And say for you all cuts are fine? Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of Britain,. Someone else’s problem so the wealthy close their minds. Have you seen the old girl.
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blogging: 01/04/15 - 01/05/15
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Saturday, 25 April 2015. We need to talk about Ivan" Enable column April 2015. On Christmas day 1978 my brother who was 17 died from primary pulmonary hypertension. I was twelve at the time and the memory of my mum telling me is seared into my mind. As we tried to move on with our lives, Mum was faced with a terrible dilemma. When she met people for the first time they’d ask, “Do you have children? Activists will cite Cameron’s life experience as being one, which should positively inform his polici...
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blogging: 01/07/13 - 01/08/13
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013. Let's have a talk. Things haven't been going well on here have they? Don't interrupt just hear me out and then you can speak. There have been some things said which in cold light of day we all regret If we try and unpick who said what to who (whom? It will take ages. 8232;But rather than playing the big Twitter blame game and isolate and attempt to "destroy" more targets let's just try and remember one thing,. We all have the same needs and wants. We all have sorrows and woes...
