Clik here to view.
‘You got shit on the beach’ ‘Really? How often I got do dat den?’
Something nasty on the beachI do like to read the obituaries column in the Telegraph. Not through any morbid fascination but because to be included, the late lamented was clearly a cut above the rest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Deep is Your Pond?
A body of waterRecently, I dug a pond. Actually I rented a sodding great digger which came complete with an operator who knew what he was doing, so the only digging I did was into my wallet. Anyone...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time to buy flowers
I was fiddling with my laptop. Micky had brought me a new 1TB back up drive but none of the films he had stored on it would play so clearly I needed some sort of plug in and that is what I was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alexander is Four!
A day late but we were having a party!Alexander, 2nd September 2008 four hours old (sucking his Dad's specially modified finger). Believe it or not, that is a company shirt I am wearing. We were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Five and Twenty Ponies
Honest Englishmen at labourNumber Three has gone into labour, waters burst and all that sort of thing, the stuff pregnant women do when they can’t take the burden anymore and have every right to all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Doorstep
What is it about my door step?I have mentioned that my dogs are feral by instinct. Doggy disappeared into the bush to give birth and I only found her hidey-hole two days after she alerted me to her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It needs a name
It I realise this state of affairs occurs with monotonous regularity but Marcia is not best pleased with me again. It isn’t as if I go out of my way to her annoy her. I think it is because she is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lord Have Mercy...
Having enjoyed a few days at the Barra de Kwanza, the last of the family who all descended on us for Alex's birthday party have finally departed. Family visits are notoriously awkward. Visitors are,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Antiques Roadshow
Not often I ask anyone for help. Must be a Man thing, like driving around for a whole day rather than stopping and asking for directions. Mind you while I was on the Bomb Squad I did crack once...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Old Kit and Memories
"Alright, Darling, you win. But I may be sometime..."With the over run on this project, I was becoming increasingly concerned for the state of our kit. By kit I mean everything we own, from smart...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Quick and Easy' Lobster Curry
I have no idea how much lobster costs in UK but like everything there, I guess it is pretty expensive and not everyone has the opportunity save a few pennies by going out and catching a pot full every...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time for Coffee... Memories
Old soldiers never die, they just get very boring. I had gone for a stroll, Alex on his ‘bike and the dogs gambolling alongside when suddenly I heard some one shout, ‘Delta Trés!’I haven’t been Delta...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What?!!!!
Blogger has gone mad! Either that or I suddenly have ten times as many readers in UK as I did yesterday.Normally I get around 100 page views a day. Yesterday, I had just 77 but then it's been nearly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You choose...
A while ago I wrote a for me, fairly typical rambling postin which I mentioned God, the Devil, a Mercedes advert and irritating neighbours before concluding that if one were unwilling to tempt fate,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Simple messages
Subject: Hope you're all right-it's megan from meganblogs Dear Tom,Subject line says it. I can't say why, but you've been on my mind a lot recently, and i just hope everything is okay.Best,MeganJohn...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Prelude to Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling, the soldier's poet.
I have made for you a song And it may be right or wrong,But only you can tell me if it's true. I have tried for to explain Both your pleasure and your pain, And, Thomas, here's my best...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs ...
…. go fishing, preferably with a bunch of caustic, piss taking old bastards. The kind of mates who will spot an open festering wound, stick their fingers in it, wiggle them around a bit and ask you if...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Relaaax!
Why do my spliffs always fall apart before I get the chance to light them?Meet Rastaman. He is thatching the roof of my barbecue area and he is also a sculptor. He is going to carve the pillars of my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bye Bye Beautiful Little Boy, Please Forgive Me
I am sure there are those out there who can best me at this but I reckon I have seen pretty much the extremes of human decency and evil. I have seen the kindness that tireless nuns provide the orphans...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The next Tiger Woods? Hopefully with a sense of decency…
Cor! I heard THAT one connect!Although for a child the lifestyle here at the end of the road to the Barra de Kwanza is idyllic, a child could still become bored. And bored children get up to...
View Article
