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Going “dogging” – and an unexpected spelling test
A hilarious moment on Saturday night at a house party attended by loads of local musicians. One of the performers, Keith, known for performing comic songs on the banjo, got up to sing a number called “Dogging”, about a couple who enjoy outdoor sex. The lyrics are very...
In-car disco cancelled as the perfect chat-up line is discovered
My recent visitors, the Naughty Twins, did not share my enthusiasm for having a midnight feast in the massive new Toyota Fentonmobile (see earlier blog). They said they’d rather go up the pub and have a couple of pints of Doom Bar. As the evening wore on, though,...
Sex, banking, cookery and leaflet drops
Being freelance is good in that, in theory, given a certain degree of knowledge, you can write about pretty much anything. The subject matter is as wide as your interests - and mine are fairly broad-ranging. Being a starving freelance is also good in that it...
Binge-drinking, curried goat and see-through trunks
The big issues of the day up the health club the past couple of nights have been Fancy Cakes, Binge Drinking, Crap Customer Service, The Difficulties of Obtaining Goat (as a cookery ingredient) in Surrey, The Dangers of Buying Used Cars, and The Importance of Buying...
Firing on very few cylinders – the day my head gasket blew
My head gasket blew last week. Had it not been for well-deserved trepidation about the likely cost of this incident I would have laughed, for I’d always thought head gaskets blowing were the stuff of sit-coms – a made-up ailment, like sprockets and overhead camshafts,...
Cucumbers and beards – more intellectual debate from the steam room
Hadn’t been up the health club for a while, what with the fabulous gardening weather and the car packing up, so it was refreshing to find today that the standard of steam room conversation was as diverse and intellectual as ever. The debate segued seamlessly from...
Back to being a starving freelance
I’ve been inactive on the blogging front for a fair while because I’ve been working full-time for a publishing company, writing a daily business news bulletin. Somehow the complexity of business news and the pressures of daily deadlines don’t lend themselves to...
Almost-human intelligence in the steam room
There’s not much of an intellectual or cultural ‘scene’ in the town I live in. Indeed, some might argue that ‘culture’ and ‘Redhill’ were a contradiction in terms. But a lively debate on the issues of the day can often be found in the steam room at my health club,...
Crap in a bag – the hotel breakfast that no-one would eat
Breakfast, the adage goes, is the most important meal of the day. How I agree. Lunch, I can take or leave - I shovel some home-made soup or last night’s leftovers down and carry on working without really noticing what I’m eating. But if I don’t get a proper breakfast...
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