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Play acting...

Posted on 6:01pm Monday 6th February 2012

I HAVE made it. I am famous in my own back yard. I have appeared in an article in the Guardian because I am a published playwright.

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The sad tale of a hamster, a Dyson and a sewing needle

Posted on 2:28pm Friday 30th December 2011

MOST men will understand when I say that what starts out to be a small job can soon end up as a day’s work, or worse.

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When is a bargain not a bargain?

Posted on 5:36pm Tuesday 6th December 2011

I AM one of my moaning moods again. ‘No surprise there then’, I hear you sigh.

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Why the economy is like Ms Nomates buying shoes

Posted on 2:28pm Tuesday 22nd November 2011

DOES anyone understand ‘the economy’? A dictionary definition shows it as ‘Careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labour, usually of the household budget’.

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What's going on at the BBC

Posted on 9:46am Thursday 20th October 2011

AT last a climb down by the BBC. They are cutting costs, supposedly to benefit the licence payer.

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Why the need for speed?

Posted on 11:33am Monday 10th October 2011

THERE has been talk of raising the top speed limit to 80mph. Why bother?

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Always look on the bright side of life...

Posted on 10:32am Wednesday 28th September 2011

EDDY Tor thinks that I’m depressed. He always proof-reads my words (he proof-reads whisky bottles too. Anything under 40% and he’s not a happy bunny, but that’s our little secret) and he said he thought my last piece was rather bleak.

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What's the matter with kids today?

Posted on 5:06pm Tuesday 20th September 2011

ALL kids have done it? I did it and you probably did it.

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Let politicians fight for the oil

Posted on 9:31am Thursday 15th September 2011

I DON’T know if it’s a curse or a blessing to be a little bit thick or naive. How often do we hear it said, ‘sometimes we’re best not knowing’? It’s true!

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The cost of a royal wedding

Posted on 3:27pm Thursday 1st September 2011

SOMEBODY asked me, ‘why, in your last week’s offering of diatribe to the funeral pyre of bad journalism, did you suddenly go off on a tangent and state that our esteemed editor is only 3ft 6ins high? It made no sense’.

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A new dawn and a new day for Billy

Posted on 1:40pm Tuesday 23rd August 2011

Billy Nomates has come of age. I have seen the light. I am departing from the dark ages.

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Standing up for the police

Posted on 12:48pm Friday 19th August 2011

Today I’m going to shock you.

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Billy's latest rant

Posted on 2:55pm Friday 12th August 2011

DEAR Billy, have you no good to say about any body in authority, especially the police of today?

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Health and safety at its best

Posted on 9:40am Thursday 4th August 2011

I WAS watching a show on how rescue services have to work with one hand tied behind their backs because of ridiculous regulations.

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Modern tennis is an acquired taste

Posted on 2:30pm Thursday 28th July 2011

I KNOW a lady who hibernates with a ton of strawberries and a bucket of cream for the tennis season.

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There is nobody in the world as naïve as my mother

Posted on 12:30pm Monday 18th July 2011

When I was very young, probably about 14 years of age, Ma Nomates told me she was going to watch a program on the telly about the Lebanon.

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Why do people read my drivel?

Posted on 9:33am Monday 18th July 2011

I WAS trying to have a quiet pie outside Greggs.

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Billy NoMates latest rant...

Posted on 12:41pm Thursday 30th June 2011

I WANT to apologise unreservedly for my stupid joke about the police.

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I still prefer Ronnie Rover to Kia Caren

Posted on 4:00pm Tuesday 21st June 2011

DON’T think I’m sexist but I still prefer Ronnie Rover to Kia Caren, but please don’t tell her, she’s not an easy woman.

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If nobody on the planet made another car for years, would the world come to an end?

Posted on 4:29pm Tuesday 7th June 2011

I DON’T suppose for one moment that many will find anything amusing about the tsunami in Japan and what was reported as a melt down of a nuclear power station, but of course the text messages and emails, containing the very un-PC jokes, have done the rounds.

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