Archive > March 2008

Is this it?

I’m coughing, sniffing, wiping snow out of my freezing face as I watch Forest score the deciding penalty as the Cobblers lose 2-1. What was I thinking? "Life’s shit, really, isn’t it.". For those who know me, they know I’m generally not a depressed person. I put on a happy face regardless, which usually works [...]

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5 Other Things I Didn’t Know Last Week

1. The 3rd Northampton BB never wins its marching competition. 2. Mrs O’Neill will be on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway tomorrow. 3. James’ house is rather large. 4. Eric constantly fights exams. And loses. 5. Colds make you very, very agitated.

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R.I.P Cap’n.

I was in the car on my way home from teaching those kids stuff and hear some shocking news. Yes. Captain Birdseye has died. John Hewer, who played Captain Birdseye for almost 30 years, passed away Sunday night simply due to old age. Well, he was 86. Whether you know this frightful fellow as Captain [...]

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Basil Brush a racist?

Right. Because nobody believed me that they called Basil Brush a racist, here’s a blog post about it. A ‘person of the travelling community’ (a gypsy from Northamptonshire, basically) has reported that Basil Brush had been racist towards their way of life. The reported episode involved a female fortune-teller fox selling heather and pegs to [...]

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