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Posted at 6:01pm Monday 6th February 2012

Play acting...

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.

Posted at 2:28pm Friday 30th December 2011

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

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.

Posted at 5:36pm Tuesday 6th December 2011

When is a bargain not a bargain?

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

Posted at 2:28pm Tuesday 22nd November 2011

Why the economy is like Ms Nomates buying shoes

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’.

Posted at 9:46am Thursday 20th October 2011

What's going on at the BBC

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

Posted at 11:33am Monday 10th October 2011

Why the need for speed?

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

Posted at 10:32am Wednesday 28th September 2011

Always look on the bright side of life...

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.

Posted at 5:06pm Tuesday 20th September 2011

What's the matter with kids today?

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

Posted at 9:31am Thursday 15th September 2011

Let politicians fight for the oil

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!

Posted at 3:27pm Thursday 1st September 2011

The cost of a royal wedding

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’.

Posted at 1:40pm Tuesday 23rd August 2011

A new dawn and a new day for Billy

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

Posted at 12:48pm Friday 19th August 2011

Standing up for the police

Today I’m going to shock you.

Posted at 9:40am Thursday 4th August 2011

Health and safety at its best

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

Posted at 12:30pm Monday 18th July 2011

There is nobody in the world as naïve as my mother

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.

Posted at 9:33am Monday 18th July 2011

Why do people read my drivel?

I WAS trying to have a quiet pie outside Greggs.

Posted at 4:00pm Tuesday 21st June 2011

I still prefer Ronnie Rover to Kia Caren

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.

Posted at 12:45pm Tuesday 31st May 2011

Don’t worry if it doesn’t make any sense

OSAMA Bin Laden is dead but just you wait.

Posted at 3:07pm Thursday 26th May 2011

I had a dream

I HAD a dream.

Posted at 3:52pm Tuesday 17th May 2011

I'm not saying the tip is rubbish

HAVE you ever spent any of your leisure time visiting the rubbish tip in our town?

Posted at 4:16pm Tuesday 22nd March 2011

Making a pig’s ear of everything

THEY’VE been in power for 15 minutes and have been successfully making a pig’s ear of everything.

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