I don’t often talk about football on my blog, but I do still care about my home-team, Hull City, even though music, art, politics and economics are of more interest to me than football…I still have a passion for my team and that will never diminish. Sadly, Jimmy Bullard, who some Hull City fans would have you believe is the best player we ever signed, seems to have no passion for Hull City as a club, or the fans. There have been far too many stories of disrespect, and we have seen far too little of him on the pitch … Continued
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Now this is why I go to Ibiza…remember to come back for part two. You need to see both parts. Part One And this is what happens 20 minutes later: Part Two Whether I like the music taste of the shop owner or not – that is why Ibiza is so special. And everyone needs to taste it. And bring a bit back to their community.
Thanks for the reply and the sincere interest you have in my flat.My flat is one bedroom flat self contained , fully furnished in and out and also has garden with is parking space in my flat,I spoke with my lawyer concerning the interest you have in my flat and we both agreed to have you in my flat. However it is unfortunate that my past bitter experience of inviting people to come and view or reserve my flat without any form of confirmation of their financial ability and not keeping up to time as at when scheduled, has brought … Continued
Whether the bleeding-heart Liberals, or the hard-nosed angry sorts that want the rioting scum shot, like it or not, I believe that there has to be a twin-track approach to solving the issue of the riots. I know that you won’t believe me, but I used to be a disaffected youth in the mid-90’s, roughly between the ages of 13 and 16, so I would like to think I know something about their mindset. Granted I didn’t burn down shops (wheelie bins were my preference), I didn’t smash private property (school windows though were a must) and I didn’t go looting … Continued
Another good weekend just gone. Friday night, I went to meet Martin and Martin to watch the football. Sadly The Turks were being shit as they were showing the Paul Scholes testimonial of all things rather than a proper football game. That is the pub, not 80 million people in a big country which might be European. So we went to Great Expectations in time for the second half. They have a very wide range of chips, by the way. Well actually the chips are the same on each dish, but the toppings differ. Ull Citeh played well I thought, … Continued
Oh yeah. The anthem goes: CITY ‘ULL, CITY ‘ULL, CITY ‘ULL CITY ‘ULL, CITY ‘ULL…………….CITY ‘ULLTRAS CITY ‘ULL, CITY ‘ULL, CITY ‘ULL CITY ULL,……………….CITY ULL Nothing too complex. Which is useful as one of the conditions of being an Ulltra is to be adopt a simple singular state of mind. This is easy for us ‘Ull folk. The other being to sing and stand at a football ground when supporting ‘Ull Citeh. I went to two away games last year and both were thoroughly enjoyable events because of the singing, standing and laughing at the ridiculously drunken idiotic fellow fans, so I am … Continued
It was annual parents visit yesterday – and both my gravy cupboard and stomach are full. Two cartons of Goldenfry chicken gravy – but also two onion – what was my mother thinking? Onion – yuck, yuck, yuckety, yuck. But she redeemed herself with bringing toothpaste, household cleaning products, ketchup (Heinz, no longer my favourite but still ok) and a tin of ham. Such are my weather forecasting abilities that I told her two weeks ago that it would probably be raining or thundery for her visit as the good weather wouldn’t last until Thursday, I was right. Just wanted to let … Continued
Firstly and most importantly, I can advise that the cutlery situation in the kitchen at work has been resolved. No longer will I have such situations where I have to use two knives as chopsticks, for the lack of forks. I had a reasonably good weekend, if nothing spectacular, few drinks after work on Friday, then I spent the evening at the Outside:Inside festival in the Penta Hotel in Reading on the Saturday which was a little quiet in numbers but we certainly contributed a fair amount of people, especially considering that it was an off-putting £15 for entry. I don’t … Continued
I have become far too accustomed to music with around 126 beats every minute. And I have never gone into London on a midweek night and then had to go to work the next day (granted I took a half-day so only working 1pm-5pm). So this was kind of unchartered territory but I like to get out of my musical comfort zones into something more challenging from time to time, and Nicolas Jaar really did catch my ear a year or more ago, with his track, Time For Us, buckets of emotion and more twists – far away from my usual … Continued
I note that GDP growth for the second quarter of 2011 is only 0.2%. Nobody should be worried about this. As the below historic graph shows, quarterly GDP growth has always been very volatile. Just look at the quarters of very low or no growth after the recession in the early 1980’s for an example. There are many dangers out there to the UK economy in the short-term, mostly external such as potential oil price shocks, a US debt default, further problems in the Euro-zone and most likely a default by at least one of the very heavily indebted countries in the … Continued