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Coddlescopes
July 9, 2009 – 12:46 am | 27 Comments
Coddlescopes

Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 19)
Stop trying to satisfy everyone else’s expectations. You must learn to feel comfortable in your own skin. If the cannibalistic serial killer who’ll soon be wearing you as a suit …

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Deep Sea Sport Fisherman
July 8, 2009 – 12:01 am | 8 Comments
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Deep Sea Sport Fisherman

Most of my beautiful and young readers was not yet even being born when was happening the Malvinas War in 1982.  This was a minor skrimrish that take place in the South Atlantic between the …

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 …

Bling Of Truth
July 6, 2009 – 12:01 am | 11 Comments
Bling Of Truth

We was tough as teenagers, me and mah girlies. We was ruthless, sassy, cool – the Pink Ladies crossed with a collaboration of frustrated crocodiles.

Reality Shites
July 3, 2009 – 12:01 am | 13 Comments
Reality Shites

I’m to move house in the next couple of weeks, which should prove about as much fun as trampolining on a soiled mattress. The things we do for warmth and shelter, eh? At least the …

Final Page: Grizzled Justice
July 2, 2009 – 1:23 am | 17 Comments
Final Page: Grizzled Justice

 
In the second instalment (see the first here) of my ‘Final Page’ series, I now present the last page of my crime novel ‘Grizzled Justice’. First published in 2003, it reinvented the buddy-cop genre by mismatching bickering …

A Face Only Jesus Could Love
July 1, 2009 – 12:00 am | 13 Comments
A Face Only Jesus Could Love

I am being perturbed this week to learn about the disgraceful treament that was being meated out to a shoal of English nuns in Crete, where they was doing the missionary work, bringing civilization to …

Kim Jong Robinson and Other Mid-Shift Daydreams
June 30, 2009 – 12:00 am | 25 Comments
Kim Jong Robinson and Other Mid-Shift Daydreams

Restaurant guests say the funniest things, they really do. When they aren’t ordering mash and noodles they are asking you personal questions that would make a Spanish inquisitor blush with embarrassment. It’s the audacity of …