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Its been a strange old night

It has been a strange old night, now as most people who follow this blog will know that Friday night is spent in the company of relatively young people who attend the bar at the local Band Club who...

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Inspirational Quote

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Ordinary life does not interest me.

I realise this is a Friday and I may have been out for a drink or two but sometimes events occur that you just have to put words on a page just to get out of your system, something that you have just...

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What a difference a week makes!

I week ago at this time I was typing about what a brilliant night I had been a part of, belly laughing about trivial things that people find amusing. Tonight I am deeply saddend by events in what is...

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“How do we change the world? “One random act of kindness at a time”

  PROJECT BY OSKAR PERNEFELDT The International Flag of Planet Earth is a graduation project at Beckmans College of Design (Stockholm, Sweden) Unless you live on the dark side of the moon you will know...

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My Happy Anniversary Blog

We have an anniversary. I have been writing this drivel for three years and apparently and I have amassed what can be only described as a small audience. Small but loyal as I would like to think. Its...

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The Nearly at the End of the Year Blog Post

Its that time of year when I have finished work for a couple of weeks and I have now had a couple of days to stop vibrating from the level of stress I have been subjected to since my last break. Now...

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Courtesy of Getty Images I am now a week into the Christmas break and at last I have a quiet moment to do what I want rather than what I need to do. The grandkids have gone home to be identified by...

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My 2015 Crossfire Year

This year we have been quite busy with work and family commitments but we still managed to get to a car show or a road trip at least once a month. This is my year in pictures. January 2015 With Karl...

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Happy New Year Everyone

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I am Heartbroken

  Sheila and OllieAnother year has arrived and for the first time ever in my existence I am heartbroken, only five days in and I am hoping that this isn’t the start of what is to come. I have been...

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Made in Oldham

It has been a rotten start to the new year. Loosing lifelong friends is never easy, and add to that loosing the hero’s from your youth its enough to make a person give up but I am from Oldham and that...

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My New Year Rebooted

  Its Friday night, 11.20 to be precise. I have good news folks the maudlin posts from the past couple of weeks have passed. We are now in the world of the rebooted 2016 and my New Year’s Eve from now...

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Hey I was an Artist and Forgot!

The Diggle Hotel August 1983 Its strange how the older I get the less time I have to do things I want to do. Many of my friends have now retired and the first thing they tell me is that they don’t know...

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A Perfect Valentines Day Northern Style

This just popped up on my timeline today. I wrote this three years ago and it seems like yesterday, its a pity it didn’t arrive in time for this years Valentines Day. A friend of mine decided to make...

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She’s Leaving Home

I am sat listening to She’s Leaving Home by the Beatles off the 1967 Sgt. Peppers album and I am sat here I am thinking this is one of the most perfect songs ever written. The lyrics are phenomenal,...

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Sir George Martin RIP

Picture Courtesy of rockcellarmagazine.com This is a rather spooky coincidence. Last night I sat down after a particularly busy day with a cup of tea (I know but I am English) in my armchair and put my...

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Do you think your life is in control!

Santorini in the Caldera Watching the sun go down Here we go in full grumpy northern bloke mode. If you are faint of heart or of a nervous disposition then leave now. The photo of this sunset above is...

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At the end of the world all we need is a cup of tea

A very big fire on an enormous moorland You can imagine the conversation in our house on Thursday evening whilst Ann was watching Emmerdale (without the farm apparently). I inadvertently discovered...

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