In 1974 I saw Michael Crawford in Billy (the musical based on Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse) at Drury Lane, London. In fact to be precise I saw him twice: first during the afternoon when he was getting out of a Blue Audi and kindly signed an autograph for me,
Tag: Opinion
Six Months Back In The UK
Six (6) months today we walked through the doors of The Cottage. I wrote before about the reasons for basing ourselves back in the UK so I wont repeat them here, but I may refer to them as I reflect on how the six months have gone. First observation is
UK is not European
I am interested as to how European the ‘typical Brit’ feels, because as far as I can tell the UK is remarkably un-European. Most months our ALStrays Pet Transport business sees me driving through Spain, France, Germany, Holland, and Belgium, as well as the UK. In addition we regularly visit
What Is Wrong With A Referendum
Why don’t governments want to offer referendums. After all they were happy enough to accept the views of the public when they were elected, so why aren’t they prepared to listen to those same people when they are in power? The UK pubic want a vote on the UK’s membership
Hard To Find Any Sympathy
So 18 million Brits aren’t able to afford a holiday this year and I have to say I find it hard to get too excited about the fact, or to summon up too much (if any) sympathy. The overall impression given ‘these days’ is that people seem to feel that
Kevin Pietersen Is Too Selfish
Just watched Cricket Writers on TV and the introduction to the Sky coverage of the test match and am somewhat amazed at the praise being heaped on Kevin Pietersen! Sure he batted well, and without doubt he is a class player but …. He hardly faced a bowl from a
Romanian workers in Britain send home £500,000 every day.
It is no secret that the Eastern Europeans have a great work ethic, and are more then willing to ‘go without’ themselves in order to send money back home, and until recently that was very much the case with the Morocans here in Almerimar. Unfortunatley as the greedy Spanish exploited
Recent Purge On Email Accounts
I wrote recently on my Almerimar Life site about a de cluttering project that we had started. This was (and is) aimed very much at the physical side of life; the vast amounts of stuff we have accumulated over the years but either due to changes in lifestyle, or technological
Sheep Rule 80% of Twitter
There have been a number of articles recently around the fact that 80% of twitter accounts have less than 10 followers. While some have blamed Spammers and other ‘squatters’ I reckon it may be a lot simpler than that …. The stats that have got people debating are: Followers Accounts