A Fictional Tale Thirty seven years ago today Muhammed Ali outpointed Leon Spinks to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times, at the Superdome in New Orleans. A crowd of over 60,000 and an estimated worldwide TV audience of 90 million, watched Ali’s historic achievement. It was to be the…
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Oh Mr Porter, What Shall I Do?!
It’s 6th September already. This year is absolutely flying it only seems like yesterday that it was 5th September. Today is my mum’s birthday. She is in esteemed company as she shares the same birth date as Basil Brush’s minder, an extra from Coronation Street and French engraver Eve Luquet. The day she was born…
Choosing The Right Path!
I’m writing a serious blog today. It’s one of the rare occasions when I haven’t added a fictional element to the narrative as I am hoping that getting a few things off my chest proves to be a cathartic experience. It has to be said, as I sit here on the first day of Autumn…
He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone!
Witnessing the amazing way Karen deals with everything thrown at her by the rancid, indiscriminate piece of shit called cancer is truly awe inspiring. The nine months chemo plus numerous, bone, MRI and CT scans, a lumbar puncture, endoscopy, monthly injections and hundreds of hours in waiting rooms have all been sent to test her….
Where The Rainbow Ends – “I Regret To Tell You…”
In this blog I thought I’d have a change of style and display my serious and sensitive side .……. I think I’ve just heard the sound of jaws collectively crashing onto desks, along with the dropping of mobile phones by anyone who knows me. This is in an attempt to add a new dimension to my…