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The King and the Cotswold Shepherd
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Ninety years ago on Christmas Day 1934, King George V was at Sandringham
House preparing to make his broadcast to Britain and the Empire. Just
before th...
The birch tree there
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White thorn wild cherry & the poplar bare
The sycamore all withered in the sun
No leaves are now upon the birch tree there
All now is stript to the cold wi...
TV Review- Phil Collins: Drummer First
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Phil Collins’ prowess as a drummer is less discussed these days than his
incredible Eighties ubiquity, his ever turbulent private life and, more
recen...
Friday 20th December 2024
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8047/20988Another term down for the kids and Phoebe is now only 5 terms
away from Secondary School. Terrifying. Ernie brought home this beautiful
Christmas...
Dispatch of the Day #29
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BLOG: Dispatch of the Day #29 The last Dispatch of the year brings the
girls regional season to a close, with the savoury and unsavoury from the
weekend.
Podrophenia - ROMAN JUGG & Stray Tracks
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November edition of Podrophenia with very special guest Roman Jugg!
Tunes, chat, quizzes and news of a the Stray Tracks competition that could
win yo...
Sunny disposition
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Welcome to December's Photo Challenge. I was asking for sunrises and or
sunsets. And I was inundated! Thank you to everyone who takes the time to
play...
TV CREAM CLOSEDOWN
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GREAT NEWS FOR ALL READERS! Of course we had to say that. But, yes, this
really is happening. Not a hoax! Not a What If! Not an Imaginary Story! On
its 27t...
Instagram Sam
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I’ve decided not to try and get back on Twitter again. With Elon Musk
wanting to buy it (though he could be bottling out) and saying he’ll give
Trump his a...
All good things....
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*....must come to an end. *
Illustrated 007 started in 2008 and I had great fun with it. Although the
rare artwork pops up once in while, I have posted a ...
Total Cost of Creating an eBook
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tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim
veniam, quis n...
Coca-Cola Christmas: The letter
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This is a commercial ad of Coca-Cola Christmas. This commercial was
released in November 2020 in United Kingdom. Under the title of “Coca-Cola
Christmas:...
Concision
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On Saturday night we watched This Is Spinal Tap, a film which clips along
and lasts barely 75 minutes. We then watched Letter to Brezhnev which lasts
jus...
TV and Records
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Putting together a weekly radio show that’s wall to wall movie soundtracks,
old and new, for Classic FM, it’s impossible not to sense the throb of the
cult...
Fading Out
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Quiet here of late isn’t it? In truth, I suspect I’ll be sunsetting this
site sometime in the new year. It has long ceased to serve a purpose as a
means of...
Running On Empty
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The subdued lights of the Jaguar's dashboard gave Philip's face a greenish
pallor as he eased the big car into the entrance to a farm gate. The fuel
gaug...
Pleased to say ...
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Admin:
Pleased to say deleterious spurious stuff with a name similar to a famous
processed ham have been cleaned from site. And those that do arrive are ...
Closed.
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*Dear Readers,*
*I been struggling with what to do wid dis blog for quite some time. Ever
since it come to me notice dat people use it for research for bo...
He’s a Gover, not a fighter
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Yesterday, the rather wonderful Tracey Macleod wrote in the Guardian about
the experience of working with Michael Gove on the early 1990s Channel 4
satire ...
Wogan? Gone? Woe.
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At this very sad time, let us lighten the mood with a Wogan-related story
from ace cameraman and raconteur Roger Bunce: Long, long ago, when
hand-held came...
Sunset over Cold Overton
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Well it has been quite sometime since I have posted on this blog for a
number of reasons but it is about time I brought it alive again. So lets
start with ...
2015: The nearest thing to heaven
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I've been doing a lot of reminsicing lately, and today I thought I'd trawl
through this blog for old times sake. While I've been appalled at some of
the dr...
We're not here any more...
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The Modern Toss blog has moved...
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Cheers, yeah?
The Art of Neil Gaiman is out in the USA
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My book is out today in America (UK, elsewhere: you’ll get it in July).
It’s called The Art of Neil Gaiman and it’s about Neil Gaiman and all the
stuff he’...
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I'm afraid I've ground to a halt. Run out of things to say. Got bored with
the sound of my own voice. So I'm formally taking a blog break. I'll be
back wh...
Tahini 2: Open Sesame
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Julie - as not even vaguely requested by you, here is another fucking
terrible screenplay, this time about that time you tried to buy some tahini
in a su...
Turkey
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Before we left home, Istanbul - and Turkey in general - was about as far as
I could imagine riding. I'm not sure why but I seemed to have some mental
yards...
Moroccan Rally 2012 completes successfuly!
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As we drove down the mountainous off road route to Smara in the Western
Sahara avoiding the occasional land mine marked out with rocks on the
ground, we kn...
Soup Slop. Soupid.
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Soup.
It's one letter away from 'slop', which just about says it all.
The average can of soup costs 89p-that's 89p for what is basically
flavoured water. ...
Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write
your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the
admin ...
Downtown profile
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*These muppets at Downtown Manchester made me businessman of the year and
asked me to do a profile. Here it is. *
*Name:* Roger Cashman ...
A moving story
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After four and a bit happy years here at Blogger, I'm moving the Cheeseford
experience to my own webspace. From now on, it can be found at
http://cheesefor...
*Salutes new readers*
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I think a lot of you may have come from Twitter, but just to say that it's
very heartening to see interest in Freddie's diary. It's not unusual to see
this...
1982: Hard times
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Pure and simply, this song reminds me of going to an outdoor disco in a
supermarket car park. It ended while it was still light.
Yes, I danced.
No, I do...
Closing Down, Clearing Out And Blogging Off
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Two years to the day since first firing up this slice of cyberspace puffery
- I'm putting the Channel Mondo handbrake on as work and other daily
bric-a-br...
Time For Spag Bol and A Horror Flick!
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I have something to celebrate. The way I celebrate is thus:-
get my other 'arf to cook one of his yummy spaghetti bolognese dinners and,
afterwards, watch a...
Come on down, Natalie
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This is me with Natalie Pike, taken in the studios at Imagine FM in
Stockport, where I hosted the breakfast show. It dates back to 2004.
Natalie was from...