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The Boxing Day sales continue to drag on. Christmas Day itself is used by the shops purely as a massive advertising opportunity for getting their Boxing Day sales noticed… “Sale starts 9AM Boxing Day! HURRY HURRY!” … What ? You want me to get up at early on Boxing Day, after I’ve consumed enough red [...]

I’m sorry, but am I the only one who’s a bit narked by this ? Why are people here in the UK telling me to “have a good holiday” or to “meet on Holiday Tuesday” ? I only say because on the BBC Weather news tonight they said, “…and Holiday Tuesday will be much the [...]

We had some Carol Singers around last night. Well, I say “Carol Singers”. They weren’t actually singing any Christmas Carols. We heard a banging at the door and a dreadful rendition of “Feed The World” by Band Aid.. “Feeeeddd thaaaa weeeerlllldd! Let them knawww it’s Chrissssmus toime!” ..and that was it. They just repeated it [...]

I went into Sainsburys last night. They had signs up everwhere saying, “Try Something New Today”. So I did. I f**ked off to Morrisons instead. Christmas is always the time of year when you run low on cash, so I decided to call my bank to arrange to see my Pensions account manager. I needed [...]

Today we finished putting the Christmas lights up. As you can see our house is now decorated with quite a few twinkly lights. Getting up the ladder and hanging those ones off the guttering wasn’t too great, especially when my fingers started turning a strange shade of blue but hey, it looks great now. When [...]

I’ve already told you about our Saturday morning adventure in Brownhills, so I thought I’d tell you about what we did in the afternoon too. I was going to put this all in one blog but to be honest there’s just too much material. We popped into Walsall after visiting Brownhills Market and decided to [...]

We’ve had an interesting weekend so far. On Saturday we popped into what can only be described as “dodgy central”, ahhh yes – Brownhills Market. It’s like a hundred Derek Trotters have descended on the place. It’s full of counterfeit stuff from DVDs, electricals, clothing, shoes, out-of-date sweets and cheap make up. You’ll also find [...]

Today I had to nip into Morrisons to get the photos from the throw-away camera we took to the Christmas party. Most of the shots didn’t come out as either the “photographer” was too drunk or didn’t press the flash button. However, I’ve managed to find a picture of myself holding some beer and wearing [...]

Some plank with far too much time on their hands has written in to the BBC about something Jeremy Clarkson did a few weeks back on the Top Gear programme he presents. Whilst talking about the new Mini – which has been redesigned by the German owners with an “estate” look to it, he gave [...]

An interesting Sky News item caught my eye today. It’s a rare moment when Mr George Bush, lets his guard down a bit more.. than.. err. usual.. (I’ll try not to roll out the large amount of “Bushisms”). Anyway, I haven’t heard him speak since he said, “