THANK you to everyone who attended the Lamproom and gave Jack Land Noble and myself a full house on Saturday night.
I missed having dinner with the other half but we extended it into Sunday and had a slap up Sunday lunch at the Dunkirk. ‘I’m not buying you another handbag you’ve got enough,’ he said, only to present me on Val’s day with… another handbag.
He’s a keeper. And also the wisest of men because he knows that there is no such thing as ‘you’ve got enough’ where women’s shoes and handbags are concerned. Long may that continue.
Very happy to see my old mucker M Jonathan Lee back in the writer’s seat after what has been a horrific time for him with his back.
I know what a passion writing is for ‘Joff’ and how much it must have pained him to be bed bound but this rebuilt six million dollar man has a new book out in May and he being he is giving a lot back at the same time.
He hopes to raise £20,000 for Weston Park to whom Joff owes a family debt for their treatment of loved ones and the money raised will go towards an MRI machine.
You can keep up to speed with Joff’s mission and his new book ‘One Green Bottle’ on his website mjonathanlee.com.
There’s a cruise in this book so I read so I’m in. More on all this later. And welcome back, mate.
Maybe the team responsible for spotting the dog foulers should set up an undercover operation in the grounds of Horizon school up Dodworth Road.
It is disgusting how many plops we have to negotiate on the grass there if you walk through. It’s a school, there are kids and yet somehow there is poop everywhere.
If you’ve got a dog, pick up after yourselves. Can’t blame that on the kids that attend there. Though maybe not the same for the litter.
What’s with all the rubbish and bottles? It’s like someone has emptied a skip on the grass. The school should be getting the kids to pick up the rubbish.
Maybe if they have to pick up someone else’s rubbish in their breaks, they might not be as keen to drop it or allow it to be dropped.
I remember having to do this at school myself. But then again that was in the days when we wouldn’t have spoken back to teachers and if a teacher rang our mams to complain about us, our mams would have given us a clip around the ear or sent us up to our rooms for the rest of the day which in those days were not entertainment hubs.
Teachers need to be supported by parents because they’re educating their kids, trying to make something of them which is obviously what some parents have forgotten.
Clearly the wishy-woshy approach on anything in modern society ain’t working is it?
Reading the letters page last week it struck me that, where politics is concerned these days, we appear to have no ‘right’ anymore.
We have left and we have ‘far right’. How is that? Where has it gone? Why is everything right of centre (not even sure we have centre any more to be honest) FAR right.
Can’t really be bothered arguing this week as it’s a jolly one for me, but if you disagree with the left, you are instantly classified as part of the SS it seems.
I’ll leave it for the militants to argue about. This week the only dilemma I want to have is birthday cake with cream or as naked as the gods themselves have baked it. Have a lovely week.
