Recent content by Guinness

I thought the market hall had already been done up...when they put up rents and destroyed its character by 'modernising' it, removing the outside market then nailing the coffin shut by shifting the footfall from the bus station which they moved to the opposite side of the town. Notwithstanding...

The mainstream media hasn’t reflected the man on the street for donkeys years..almost nobody buys or has a paper delivered anymore, paper shops have all but disappeared…the internet posts current events almost instantaneously….traditional media is on constant catch up and needs to rely on...

It’s here again….the winter festival. You know the thing that 20 years ago was Xmas and 30 years ago was Christmas! This old fart remembers Christmas past…we did the nativity play, sang carols and we had a tree with about 20 lights and trimmings put up mid December, trimmings incidentally...

I agree with Sunak. I've a mate in Blackpool who lives near the Cuadrilla site, he told me that he felt a couple of quakes back in the day when they were exploring. I did a bit of research back then and although the quakes were negligible from the exploratory drill, my main concern was the...

Just watched an old clip on youtube of Walter Matthau telling this one.. 3 old guys sitting in a care home bemoaning their youth. 1st guy says, 'damn I wish I could take a leak like I used to. Every morning I squeeze and strain just to get a bit of a dribble. 2nd guy says 'yeah, I'd love to...

Unfortunately if they did they would lose their SIA licence and probably be prosecuted for using unreasonable force. Meanwhile... ...Plod would offer counselling, cups of tea, cream cakes and free lucky dips on the lottery to the actual offenders

Apparently I’m a gammon…. You know one of those red faced baby boom angry little Englanders.. I was dragged up on a council estate with a black and white 20 inch TV and a radiogram for communication…the phone box was a few hundred yards away. Had to switch the immersion heater on for an hour...

I’m getting left behind…. Used to think I was au fait with technology… I knew the Ceefax pages that were relevant, could program the VHS to record while I was away and make tape to tape copies for my mates on my Amstrad tower system….I had an Atari 2600 and played Space Invaders and Asteroids...

I'm seriously beginning to think that our police force needs a complete overhaul. You get burgled...you receive an incident number, likewise if someone nicks your car/motorbike or childs bicycle. No investigation, no visit, in the burglary cases if you're lucky they may ring you back to give...

I’ve tried ‘vegan bacon’, ….didn’t look like bacon, didn’t taste like bacon. Horrible stuff. I’m from the pre cooking oil age, when pretty much everything that was fried was done so in a lump of hot melted lard. Eggs fresh from the milkman fried in a pan where the melted lard was so deep you...

So, a certain xmp who being unemployed and having nothing better to do, posts a daily tweet that is usually unanswered or at best occasionally mocked. Undeterred by this disinterest, and possibly after a heavily buttered piece of toast, he then usually writes an email, perhaps using a...

Hmm..have you thought about why you sat there having a quiet beer and noticed the lack of a black face? Bear with me.... Supermarkets used to have sweets by the checkout, then the health police come along and claim this causes childhood obesity (completely ignoring the bad parents who are...

Your opinion, which is perfectly acceptable Incorrect a retirement party was held with juice and cakes in an office at a place of work, incidentally where people had to work in the national interest..as opposed to a late night beer and curry political strategy meeting Incorrect, didn't...

The Weis/Hickman books were probably some of the last I actually bought...The Dragonlance Chronicles were the standard for fantasy reading in the 80's, rich characters like Raistlin, Caramon and Tanis Halfelven..and funnily enough only written to pique interest in buying and playing Dungeons and...

I used to be a prolific reader, back in the day I had 6 library cards (those little cardboard pocket things that the librarian took off you at the desk when she stamped your books out...jeez I'm old). I once tried to read the Bible, got as far as Numbers, too many 'begats' to keep up with. I...