Tragically I didn't write this - but I wish I had, especially as it just made me laugh as I was drinking coffee... where's my keyboard cloth?...

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Ok, this turned out to be a lot longer than I thought it might be.

Well, given that we’re now just over a year away from the latest point that a General Election can be called in the UK, I thought that I’d share a few facts about what’s happening… Read full post »

Anticipation

Tingling thoughts - pulse quickens.

Clothes sliding off fast...

“Does anyone want to do a parachute jump for charity?”

It had been a quiet morning up until then. I was frowning at a story about a local politician who had been caught interfering with the truth (again), Dunc had returned from the kitchen with his third tea of the… Read full post »

Feather touch backbone,

Spine arches, legs part, moistness,

Tongue quivers, seeking

The minute her physiotherapist gives her the go-ahead, the bedroom door will be blasted off its hinges... Read full post »

Today is the anniversary of something that needs to be remembered. Sixty-four years ago today, on April 15, 1945 troops from the British 11^th Armoured Division rolled into a place that left them retching over the sides of their vehicles. It was called the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (http://en.w… Read full post »

Ok, normally I never do more than one post a day, but when I told my wife that I'd written a dirty haiku she giggled and then said that I'd never dare to post a really filthy haiku.

Being unable to resist a challenge I wrote one.

Being unable to resist… Read full post »

Racing pulse slows down

Sweat sheen, limbs untwine, lips meet

Drowse, cuddling

I seem to have one thing on the mind these days... damn the arrival of Spring! Oh wait, I hate Winter... Read full post »

An OS Guide to the British Media (or what not to read)

It has recently occurred to me that some people have been quoting from UK newspapers without really understanding the context. The fact is that the British media ranges from the credible to the ludicrous. So here’s a quick… Read full post »

Ok, this is my first ever haiku. Hell, it's the first poetry I've written in 20 years. Gulp.

 For my lovely wife, who is suffering from a bad back and who I want to take upstairs to the bedroom the second that she's better.

Soft lips, nuzzle neck

Hot… Read full post »

Working as a freelance local reporter had its moments and was great fun, but eventually I decided that I needed a more settled job. The company I had been working for didn’t have any vacancies at that time so I started to look about and then discovered that a different local… Read full post »

We’ve seen a lot of articles on OS recently on the demise of papers and on the impact to journalists. Personally, speaking as a journalist, I’d like to point out two important facts. The first is that the demise of local papers will lead to an increase in corruption, as local… Read full post »

When I was growing up I had all the usual childhood illnesses. The scar over my left eyebrow is from chickenpox, I should have the antibodies from measles floating around in my bloodstream, I was given vaccines against scarlet fever, polio and smallpox.

And then there was the other… Read full post »

I’ve written here about my time at a television station that produced a live news programme for CNBC. How I got there is a different story however.

When I graduated from college I didn’t have much of an idea about what I wanted to do in life. Sadly there were no… Read full post »

Being something of an avid fan of Jon Stewart (even though I can only watch his show in segments on the internet as we only get a truncated and very out of date version of his show on satellite TV over here) I have been fascinated by his recent segments on… Read full post »

The process of buying a house in the United Kingdom is a royal pain in the posterior. It is lengthy, litigious and expensive. It contains the lurking possibility that something horrible will happen at the last minute and it will all fall through as the Chain of people moving from house… Read full post »

For most of my life I saw myself as being more of a dog person than a cat person. This was primarily because I grew up with dogs everywhere and nary a cat in sight, apart from those belonging to our neighbours. These would make fleeting appearances in our back gardens before… Read full post »

In response to Nanatehay’s post on Canada… 

The origins of the US-Canada War of August 2003 are, even now, shrouded in mystery. Ascertaining the motivations of the Bush Administration remains deeply problematical, although great strides have been made recently in deciphering the a… Read full post »

According to science (or maybe just science fiction) when matter and anti-matter meet there tends to be a horrible explosion. I think that something similar might happen if I ever meet Kathleen's first husband.

They met when they were both in their twenties. They married because... well I think that… Read full post »

I used to really hate Valentine's Day. I mean that - I really, really used to hate it. It would appear on the horizon at the start of February, looking a bit like a whale exhaling, only with a lot of pinkness and naff endearments and truly terrible poetry.

And there… Read full post »

How can you tell when you're with the love of your life, your soulmate, the person you want to be with for the rest of your life?

I think that the first time I guessed that it might be with my Kathleen was on a day in early March 2005, when… Read full post »

I'll hold my hand up right now and say that I have a problem with the overuse of the word 'love'. I don't mean in the casual usage of it, telling someone that you loved that new song, or that you loved the new restaurant down the road. I mean when… Read full post »

I was early. I'm often early to many things as I think that lateness is never fashionable, it's just rude, especially when you don't warn people that you're running behind schedule. I walked in, looked around, noted that she wasn't there yet and ordered a coffee. Then I chose a table… Read full post »

I've had a rather stop-and-go life so far. I'd better clarify that. I was born in London to Welsh parents and I still live in London, after hopping backwards and forwards between there and Wales. I have a great and very loving family - and that's one of the reasons why… Read full post »