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Widows Willy…
September 8, 2009 – 12:00 am | 10 Comments
Widows Willy…

Ah old people, bless. I should say, before I go any further, that I like old people. I really really do. I aspire to be old people one day. It’s my only true ambition to …

Sausages is Dead…(well he is to me)
September 1, 2009 – 12:00 am | 11 Comments
Sausages is Dead…(well he is to me)

If I had to use one word to describe last week it would be, disagreeable. Very disagreeable. Yes that’s two words but it was a very disagreeable week punctuated with moments of hilarity, amusement, falling …

More Flatulence than Influence…
August 25, 2009 – 12:00 am | 14 Comments
More Flatulence than Influence…

So according to Simply Zesty – Online PR and Social Media website I am the 17th Most Influential Irish Person on Twitter. Get in! Well you can just imagine the whoop whooping of delight when …

I wouldn’t have believed it if my chums hadn’t seen it and told me about it. (& got a photo too)
August 18, 2009 – 12:00 am | 50 Comments
I wouldn’t have believed it if my chums hadn’t seen it and told me about it. (& got a photo too)

So to the delight of waiters and bar staff all over Belfast the Tall Ships have been and gone. I’ve never been one for seafaring types or boats in general, except of course Captain Birdseye, …

Morning George!
August 11, 2009 – 12:00 am | 32 Comments
Morning George!

Having had a long and sweaty day at work on Friday I was more than just a little disappointed to get home and find The Cousin’s chum/partner in menace John ‘the baby’ Barton and The …

It was a dark and khaki time
August 4, 2009 – 12:00 am | 20 Comments
It was a dark and khaki time

“You looked like a wanker!”, exclaimed my unemployed/unemployable rock star friend as he tried not to choke on his piri-piri prawns during lunch. He couldn’t stop himself from either laughing or eating which inevitably lead …

The Sweet Harmonic Melodies of Political Violence.
July 28, 2009 – 12:00 am | 23 Comments
The Sweet Harmonic Melodies of Political Violence.

I am meeting a chum for lunch on Wednesday. He is one of my oldest chums and a jolly good one at that. Like most of my chums, mates, acquaintances and the other souls that …

It’s All So Ghastly, Frightful and Frankly Rather Disappointing
July 7, 2009 – 12:00 am | 14 Comments
It’s All So Ghastly, Frightful and Frankly Rather Disappointing

It’s been a tough week dear reader made tougher still by the complete and utter failure of my broadband service and the inability of the almighty “provider”, Virginmedia, to do anything more than come round …