There comes a time in a man’s life when he suggests to himself that “I’ll have one last lash”. It has been a while in coming, slowly and recently I have begun to have a distaste for a session down the pub, a bellyful of booze. Pints of Guinness now […]
Married life
2016 -The Year Of Commemoration and Justice
As I get older my existence becomes more hermitic. Although I am in touch with the world, I see nobody but my wife, the lovely Helen, the bane of my life for 43 years. Only when I go for provisions do I realise there are other people living in the […]
The Road To Morocco – My Diary, Part 8
It is our penultimate day in beautiful Morocco, our last evening and I aim to enjoy it. The whole team is now in the pool at 5.00pm, the temperature has increased to about 34C bearable in this dry climate at least with a glass of wine of the cool variety […]
Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy
It must have been in 1964, having been intrigued by Brendan Behan’s antics on television, that I first read Borstal Boy, which led me on to reading everything he wrote and other things that were written by others when he was incapable of writing towards the end of his short […]
McAleese versus Borgoglio versus Nature
Our beautiful, friendly and much deluded Pope Francis also known as Jorge Borgoglio, has decided in his wisdom to call a Synod of Bishops to review the Catholic Church’s teaching on family life in October this year. You would think what a wholesome and good thing to do until you […]
The Dark Box And Our Unspoken Words
I have just finished reading The Dark Box:A Secret History Of Confession by John Cornwell, an excellent writer with a long history of books regarding the Catholic Church, who is only just hanging on by a thread to his Catholicism, mainly because of massive encouragement from his wife. The book […]
The Reality Of St Bede’s In The 1950s & 1960s
People recently have been remarking on the language used in my blog postings and how it offends some and puts them off attaching to my ideas. Well I feel very sorry for having offended their honourable dignities but feel that I do not really want to attach myself to those […]
A Diet A Day Keeps The Doctor Away- Week 3
Day 15 – Monday 9th December 2013 Well after all the shenanikans of the weekend my weight was 106.3kgs which is not too bad only a gain of 0.3kgs. It would be lovely to get down to 105kgs by next Sunday. I will persevere and for breakfast this morning my […]
My Day In Dublin At The Risen People
Well what a day I had in Dublin yesterday. Every time I go down, although round here they say up, to Dublin, even though Dublin is south east of here, you never here of people in Manchester say go up to London but I suppose up to Dublin might have […]
Why Use Animals When You Can Experiment On Africans?
Well after exposing the sham of 21st century living with my thoughts on the tragic hoax of 9/11, which attracted much comment and further facts on the fact that it was not Johnny Muslim who laid waste to the centre of New York back in 2001 but probably G W […]