While I dismissed the “sexually inclusive” back hole, front hole and stick NHS story as amusing pc nonsense […]
Category Archive: Anecdotage
Have you ever noticed how, at the end of every news bulletin outside the news-only channels, the ding-dang-dong-diddle-dum […]
Unbelievably, 50 years ago last month I migrated from Manchester to Liverpool in order to begin a Joint […]
Today’s Make Waspis Smile moment When I was a kid, every Wednesday evening – Dad had the night […]
The foreverness of the Everlys All things must pass, everything is in transition, and nothing is forever. Part […]
“Believe me, this is hurting you less than you’re paying me” In the teeth of moral hazard On […]
My great-aunt Lizzie was a mill-girl with aspirations to better herself. Whereas in 2015, ‘aspiration’ is really a […]
In the mid to late 1950s, I finally graduated to a height where it was possible to be […]
Dentists and me: A brief history I’m not fond of dentists. I don’t have any kind of phobia […]
On April 15th – only five weeks from now – it will be a century since the Titanic […]
There were various rock singers I wanted to be in 1973. High among these was James Taylor, a […]
Early in 1972, I was working as a consumer researcher at the J. Walter Thompson ad agency in […]
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