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Growing Up In East London / 12.01.1959 - 05.04.1981

 

I vividly well recall that very early Monday morning of my birth, where although I couldn’t speak, (obviously, but strangely enough I could already brilliantly sing the entire National Anthem by heart, which had seemingly been automatically passed on to me genetically as if by magic? Not too long after that, I’d also mastered „I’m forever blowing bubbles" aka "Bubbles" as well – Fancy!). I did manage to scribble on the wall with a blooded finger – „What the fuck am I bleedin well doin here In poxy Norf London then,? I can clearly ear them bells darn Bow callin me, innit“.

            And not too long after that as well, I got me licence to do anythin an everyfing too - Honnist to god!


One of my Godfathers (the other being my Dad’s brother, Uncle George) was a Polish Jew named Douglas, who I can’t recall at all at all. This picture was taken circa early 1963 and my wonderful Bavarian Lederhosen (must be some humour in there somewhere?) were a present from him. He couldn’t stand East London’s daily racism anymore, and finally went off to live in Boston Mass instead, from where he sent me dollars on every birthday, for many years to come – Lucky Me - Hooray!

Yours truly with Grandad Ricketts & Co in Sunny Yorkshire (Horbury near Wakefield) – circa 1962, proudly in front of his/their brand new council house. My Dad smugly grinning too, as he knew he’d soon be leaving for the South and The Smoke once again – Fancy! PS: Favourite Grandad sayings included „There’s Nowt ser Strange as Folk Lad!“ – „Splondy Dosh“ and „Swinging Dodgey“ - Also an avid reader of many books on subjects aux-various, with his current-affairs regularly derived from both The Wakefield Express and The Yorkshire Post – A Great lifelong Fan of Wakefield Trinity too (Rugby League) a local then hero being Neil Fox – Fancy!


 

Posted – 15.08.24: Grandad Ricketts’s Bible („Gleanings of the English Poets“ - his personal copy has been in my private collection for some 50+ years) – Really quite a beautiful book too.

 
 
Today, the 6th of June 2024 marks the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Normandy Landings

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5518k8p0no

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv224rk5pg3o 

‚A brilliant operation that proved vital in the eventual outcome

of WWII in Europe’

Like many other millions of Britons and Commonwealth Citizens, ‚my own two Grandfathers also did their bit‘ from 1939 – 1945. Grandad Ricketts, ‚pictured above‘, left his tough job as a coal miner and joined the First Army in North Africa, surviving to tell the tale (I got many letters from him in later life, where he described general thoughts of the time, as well as being a great fan of Max Jaffa’s Music too, no less).

Grandad Henty on the other hand, was a full-time RN (Senior Service) man, already steaming around the Far East Theatre in early 1937, serving on HMS Ceylon amongst others, as a CPO/Medic (he served right into the early 1960‘s - Also participating in the UN’s first ever Mission in Korea). A very different personality entirely, though I hardly remember him, as he died when I was quite young (his great passion over the years was to collect International Red Cross stamps (Mint) from wherever he was stationed, I vividly recall seeing the albums many years later as a boy, and marvelling at how attractive they all were). My Grannie, Mother, two Aunts & Uncle all most happily put in their own versions of events over the years too, to fill any possible gaps there – Oh Yes!

 


Posted – 15.08.24: Grandad Henty’s Bible („Manual of Seamanship 1937“ - his personal copy has been in my own private colllection for some 50+ years) – Really quite a good read for those at all interested in such matters „Full Steam Ahead Number 1“.

 

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My childhood Lonsdale Avenue Club comes to mind, the gloves felt like big pillows extending each hand -

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The Coopers Arms - Chadwell Heath - Essex (1979)

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Posted – 13.07.2024 - Correction: Peckham Rye aka Hackney Wick


 

Posted – 13.08.24: „Put Yer Feet Down With Firm Hands Rodney!“

 

Yup! Posted - 17.08.24

 


Posted – 23.08.24 „So This is Ingerlund-Hooray!“

 

 
Posted – 27.08.24 – Another brilliant analagy of today’s Third Country British widespread ‚Racist Fuckwittery‘ methinks. PS: Not forgetting, all the EU Folk that got de facto kicked out by Brexit too of course, many being top-notch NHS employees aux-various (never to return) – „Cripes!“


Posted – 18.03.25 – "When I first heard this song as a young teenager last century, I knew it would eventually be my most favouritist track of all time" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJ0_Cg6ElU
"It woz Bob Marley and this 'Real Tasty Geezer' wot really dunnit for me like!" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMjvRpAckU PS: Not Johnny Reggie
These are exactly the kind of smarmy, extremist, radical-racist elitist scum, that have led to hundreds of poor, innocent protesters on Third Country Britain’s streets, being badly beaten by police & rags, arrested, and swiftly locked-up, in recent, widespread ‚Crying for Help‘, er, CLUELESS MORONIC RIOTING – posted: 08.09.24

 Posted Friday the 13th September 2024 – X 2
So absolutely no surprises there then - Loads of public dosh paid out to Fatty Johnson & Co's ever-greedy chums, loads more required for compensation too - Hooray! Posted - 15.09.24  

Eve is one of two people that had a most profound effect on the way my future life panned out. As well as us enjoying a fine, sweet, but short teenage romance (both exactly the same age, to the day, too) she was the one that convinced me to stay on at school for another 2 years, to very much enjoy the 6th Form life. The second person appears on The Fifth Page  – Posted – 15.09.24

Posted – 19.09.24 – I can seriously well envisage certain fans of Farage & Johnson, etc, being in total agreement with this amazingly enlightened forward-thinking sentiment – „Cripes!“ PS: I think Ingerleesh History would be far more appropiate though, innit.



Posted – 22.09.24 X 3 – A pretty much on the ball description of these ever-greedy, tuneless & talentless, 3 song wonder nobody’s – Our John would laugh at them very loudly right to their (now not so young) snotty little coked-up faces – Hooray!

 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/24/eu-plant-exporters-turning-backs-on-uk-over-painful-border-checks-says-trade-group

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Posted – 26.09.24 – Anybody who doesn’t understand this (and their first language is English) is really just a silly old Moo.

 Posted – 27.09.24 - Fun Facts:

My Mother’s Favourite Song as a Teenager!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt_AGU-8MD8

My Father’s Favourite Tunes ad nauseam in finitum!

Absolutely No James Last recordings can ever be uploaded on this machine, period

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„Aahh! Innit Nice!“


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Also Posted – 03.10.24 – As a last pointer to the above two thingies, this description also gives some personal perspective to flying about in that period, from different directions so to speak/write, though to roughly the same destination. Leaving 1984 West Berlin (by bus) to East Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport, (2 hours if you’re lucky), after a wait?, fly to Moscow (with either Aeroflot or Interflug – 4 hours-ish, lots of free booze served) then long, long wait, in very cold, very empty, very unfriendly airport). Then fly to Newfoundland, (Aeroflot via Greenland stop-off) then wait again. Last hop right down the Eastern Canadian board to the Sunny Carribean, namely (Eastern-Bloc) Cuba – Hooray! Although relatively cheap, that true adventure takes about 2 days, then enjoy a fortnight of sun (no loud-mouthed Yanks allowed – Hooray!) Then do it all again on the way back, the worst part being, actually getting on a bus back to West Berlin (local public transport not allowed, as you’re in de facto East Germany (GDR) not East Berlin, so a different visa is required naturally).which can sometimes take bloody hours and hours, and really tests patience and tempers to the limit. Alternatively, short BA flight, to then Sunny EU London from Sunny EU West Berlin, fairly short wait at Heathrow, then brisk 5 hour (very comfortable) 747 flight to Antigua direct – Sorted (though very broke for many, many months to come) – But Hey! It’s only money, innit.

Posted – 04.10.24 – PS: My last ever flight was in late 2002/3, on a trip to Barcelona just before Christmas. A Swiss Air Saab Concordino, (twin-turbo prop) a very nice little bit of kit I must say. Got de-iced/snowed at the iconic Berlin-Tempelhof (now closed unfortunately) a very expensive flight (5 times the usual price, as I was really last minute, and it was almost empty) then off to jolly old Basel (over the Alps) very impressive, then on to Sunny Spain, getting a lovely view of Marseille en-route too, „Luvvy Jubbly“.

Posted - 06.10.24 - Granny with Dicky aka Pig (named after Attenborough, sorry Mountbatten, or was it perhaps Valentine?)
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‚Well she did actually go quite far herself too, did she not!‘

 

    Posted – 07.10.24 –  

"Nice And Loud Now All You Well Gwoovy

  People!“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95h6js7_Kas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3IVdLo-2NM



Good Cop

Bad Cop -  (CID + SPG 3 Unit - Leytonstone E17 ) - Present as armed officer (as opposed to firearms officer - Smith & Wesson 38 Special - shoulder holster) at Balcombe Street Siege, Spaghetti House Siege, Iranian Embassy Siege, Anguilla Uprising Tour – Seriously injured and convalesced in, er, Brighton after Anti-Vietnam War Riots, and much later Yorkshire Miners Strike-Riots (which caused great stress all round personally for him & family-wise) -  Also ‚officially‘ accused of being involved in the Blair Peach affair (inadvertant accidental death via SPG contact), which went all the way to the Bailey (was found not to have been complicit) Thatcher disbanded the Group soon after - Although, at the time, many openly agreed with their most unorthodox (though highly-greyzone-legally-questionable- methods) they soon became even too hot a political potato for Maggie herself, so she simply binned them. PS: It’ll really be quite interesting to see how future, ie 2025 > onwards (far more privatized / US para-military-styled & badly-trained UK coppers (sic) (by the likes of Fatty Johnson’s ever-greedy chums, at pretty useless U.S. Arms giant Babcock for instance) all end up panning out) wunnit? - „Cripes!“- Cloggs-popped late 2003 (aged 67)

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Posted – 10.10.24 – Now that really was a proper Boozer – at Portsmouth/Pompey Harbour, just opposite HMS Vernon (where older type Boats, aka Subs were merrily moored)

 Posted – 11.10.24 – Granny’s second pooch, this time at Bembridge, namely Dougall, who also had an excellent little doggy character methinks. How he simply loved taking me to The Crab & Lobster, just up the road, to visit Rodney the Guvnor & Co! „Cheers!“ PS: Mother once told me, that when they were all evacuated to Derbyshire (during the thingie) they had a lovely Red Setter named Rex? (I think?)

 Posted – 11.10.24 – Some people will do absolutely anything to never lose their state pensions, specially darn Essex, innit - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/11/woman-jailed-life-murdering-parents-bodies-essex-virginia-mccullough


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Posted – 13.10.24 x 8 - PS: Many people I’ve known over the years (both here and there, including relatives) would’ve found the above Bus Story highly amusing, though whether they actually would today, is another leaky basket of badly-packed kippers entirely. Last Century’s standard Racist Rhetoric is most certainly desperately attempting a backdoor comeback, via idiotic social media (sic) etc, of course, but what! I wonder, will the contemporary offspring of that afore-mentioned group of individuals, have de facto learnt and put into daily/normal practice? - „Cripes!“
 





A good and most enjoyable number, unfortunately I had to leave, to move on to pastures new overseas, ie Sunny EU West Berlin https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=4d7ca16b839b608ebd1a54c028084a53f18d59f1

My very early experience in The City, train to the Street of a morning in Whistle & Flute, then walk up towards The Angel, (all very close to Buckingham Palace, Karl Marx's Memorial and last but not least, my very own Birthplace too) and soon made me realise it just wasn’t for me – except for the lovely long lunches in The Eagle that is- https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=ff4bebd85740f230fa83397ea732185e3d396b89

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          Posted – 15.10.24 x 2 - "In The Navy"
Posted – 17.10.24 x 2 – „I Dunno! Der Yoof ov Today“ – Now that Erasmus has gone, they’ve all just simply given up carin, innit – „Mum! What’s Erasmus? Oh Just some daft foreign thingie Dear, now eat your tea and stop bloody well moaning – and afterwards you can take your little brother into the garden to get some nice fresh air and play some games with your lovely new Tablets“
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Posted - 20.10.24 - Fun Fact: Boris Johnson was born in the de facto Oldest & Most Successful Democracy the World has ever seen - "Cripes!"


Posted – 21.10.24 – So I wonder just how many ever-Patriotic Third Country Britons, are actually aware then, that the very oldest Monarchy in Europe doesn’t reside in London? but in, er, Sunny EU Copenhagen no less - Hooray!
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Posted – 23.10.24 – Yet another clear example of ever-Racist and Totally Unjust Third Country Britain not changing one Fucking iota for the better, period - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dvdmzxz82o - PS: Long Live Blair Peach, those Bent Met SPG Coppers all got off Scottish Free way back then too of course (with plenty more in-between) – Hooray!


Posted – 23.10.24 – Mixed Old Classics x 8

 
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"Please Sir! What's the time?"
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Posted - 26.10.24 - I've been playing this quite a lot lately a pretty good New track I reckon, innit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8WPnBbpUTo

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 Posted - 26.10.24 x 3 - What do they want - Jam on it? - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk4mv4p0ldo



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Posted – 27.10.24 x 3 - Two Ladies out on a matter of the utmost urgency, darn Thaxted way – 2011, wunnit
I used to know Lee on Solent and Stokes Bay as a child pretty well too - https://www.visitsoutheastengland.com/places-to-visit/lee-on-the-solent-p757261
 
Posted – 27.10.24 – Mother’s (pictured above) other great lifelong friend (Nancy Mear, pictured above, close neighbour, originally from Cumbria and also a Mother of 5) was Joan Townsend (Auntie Joan, Mother of 3 > Both Eve's & Eddie's Mums were also real Salt of The Earth Sorts similar too) who was about as Cockney Sparra as they come. She grew up in one of these Prefabs, in the East End, then after getting married, escaped to well posh (then) Sunny Barking no less. Her old man Len, (who I knew very well as a young boy - as their place was a kind of refuge now and again, when my own parents had serious problems - usually work-related). Their own 3 lovely daughters were on another planet to me, swimming in Barking park Lido and riding the little diesel train was great fun though: (or so I thought at the time). Len - DS Met, unfortunately got unavoidably involved with a certain 3 highly infamous bruvvers, which badly changed everything for the more worserer. Mother & Joan + 2 once came to visit me here in 1984 (at my Staaken gaff by the Wall) – on the long bus trip downtown on the first morning proper, half a dozen Chieftain Tanks + Escort were chugging their merry way along the main drag (Heerstraße), just in front of us. Faces were grim, until until I told them that they were British – Suddenly Joan (aged – 55-ish) was jumping up and down and screaming „Go On Boys – You Bloody Well Showed em! - Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!“ - A new experience for them (me too, only a few years earlier of course) but all the same – the upper deck was chocka, so - Well Embarrassin, ter put it mildly, I’m tellin yers! - Honnist – I visited Joan a few times in Sunny Brighton aka Skidrow on Sea, then she moved merrily to even Sunnier, er, New Zealand, to help her oldest daughter Marion & Family rear Olives & grow Goats! Right into her late 90‘s and beyond? - Fancy! PS: Both her and Nancy must have cost the Met Widows Pension Wallers a bleeding fortune, by living so long – Hooray!




 

 



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Posted - 29.10.24 - "Well I Never!"

Also Posted - 29.10.24 - PS: I fondly recall one very-early, pretty headachey last.century 74/75 weekend moaning, where I was soundly-dreaming about this & that, when I was suddenly awoken by a panicked-screaming down below! I automatically (sic) rushed down the stairs, only to find my younger sister Cally, aka Carol-Anne (aged 3-4) babbling away most profously at our half-opened kitchen door, which led out to the garden shed, and her beloved guinea-pigs, Zippy and Chuffer, no less. Quote: „The Sky has Fallen Down“ – A seriously heavy Fog had decended (most unusually), so a pretty logical statement as it happened, innit. A little while later, we were driving (as a family) down to Rockley Sands in Sunny Dorset/Devon, for a Summer (very wet) big-caravan holiday, where she casually asked „What are those black & white things then?“ - „They’re cows dear“ replied Mother, and on we happily all drove!“. On a slightly later hiking/camping reality trip to the Lake District, alone with my bruvver Andrew aka Andy, whils’t staying on a lovely farm field, right on the banks of Grassmere, he said to the farmer's wife one fine moaning when we got some wonderful fresh stuff from her little shop „Ain’t you got no proper milkman's milk then?“ - „Cripes!“ - I naturally told her he was adopted! (as one does)



Posted 30.10.24 x 4 - PS: Pretty good nosebag served here too, by all accounts - https://www.thaiupatthequay.com/  Most successfully run by Andy Mear & Family (the second son of Nancy (pictured above) and John - Fancy!

 

Posted – 31.10.24 – And all thanks to patriotic (sic) Fatty Johnson and his ever-greedy, moronic chums – „Tally Ho Chaps!“ - They actually had more British troops during the Napoleonic Wars for Fuck’s Sake– Hooray! + „Cripes!“

Posted - 01.11.2024 - I've always liked Crawley, where is it exactly ? -  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7wq20dj10o

 



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Posted – 05.11.24 x 5 – Private Eye (issue 1634 – November 2024)
Posted – 08.11.24 – „This is The Wild Service of The BBC“ (Only broadcast outside of the UK of course)
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Posted – 15.11.24 – It doesn’t only apply just to Barry of course!

 Posted - 20.11.24 - This well maybe of interest to any of you out there that can actually read more than just a few sentences, rather than simply only look at pretty (albeit excellent) cartoons - https://www.idler.co.uk/

Posted - 20.11.24 X 3 - PS: Some call it whisky or gold watch of course
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 Posted – 28.11.24 x 2 - Above 1997 - Chappel & Coln Beer Festival - near Colchester
Posted – 29.11.24 – "Cripes!"
I wonder if the cops had trouble understanding his name properly? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36p6x4gdldo Posted - 30.11.24 x 3

 
Posted – 02.12.24 – I knew Hasler Hospital quite well from my childhood summer holidays. It had a lovely big pond in front of it where beautiful large sailing boats were played with by very old kids – Fancy! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hospital_Haslar
Posted – 05.12.24 x 7 - Although all really ‚as per always‘ are quite brilliant, my 3 favourites in this little batch are ‚curfew‘ ‚cats‘ and ‚bears‘ – Fancy!
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Posted – 06.12.24 - Private Eye Magazine – London (issue 1637 December 2024) – And not forgetting too, Our Greedy Nigel’s most generous er, €U Pension (for life) of circa €20 Grand a month + other perks – You couldn’t fucking well make it up – Hooray!

PS: To all those fools that think Polarising + Racist Farage & New York-born Fatty Johnson are the clever ones, for continually getting away with never being available for their constituents (either in Brussels or Ingerlund) but still nicely cash-in on oodles of public money anyway, I say, just reverse the ferret, and ask yourselves who, in reality they both consider to be the mind-boggling stupid / ignorant ones out there? True Third Country British Democracy has to be always worked at, (with 100% 24/7/365 Transparency) and once its gone, it will never come back again, lost forever, period. Voting is not a right anymore, it’s a privelege to be earned, and those eligible, who simply just don’t bother (including by casting a spoilt ballot) should simply shut the fuck up, and forever hang around with all the other like-minded Numpties, happily passing on the same old ad nauseam Racist rubbish to their whining, totally clueless, though ever-self-serving and ever-entitled offspring.

Posted – 07.12.24 – Private Eye Magazine – London (issue 1638 - December 2024) – I knew Gants Hill pretty well as a nipper, long long afore, last century. I can well envisage a crack Painting Team (master toshers Rodney & Grandad, managed by Delboy) up ladders, hearing his constant daft „A little dab’ll do yer!“ and „This is the age of the train!“ rhetoric. So well done to Trotters International Traders, they finally made it to Moscow at last – Hooray! And "Up Yours!" As the Russians say.

Also posted – 07.12.24 x 5 - PS: I first went to Upton Park in 1965, (aged 6 and a bit) with my neighbour-mates, bruvvers Jimmy and Steven Scot (same age), we each carried a wooden pop-crate to stand on. Walked right up our road, Lonsdale Avenue to the Boleyn (by the Saturdee Mornin Pictures, wunnit), then up Green Street to the ground. We were only allowed to go to reseve games alone, but evertually did see a few first team ones later with their Dad (a postie). Boys section of the chicken run, no less, (tanner entry I think?) pretty hairy stuff for a young whipper-snapper such as I, so what would the ever-caring neighbours say today then, I wonder?
Posted – 08.12.24 – Great News for millions of War-weary Syrians who’ve suffered 45 years of despotic hell. It will remain to be seen, whether their lives will actually improve under this new lot, or not, de facto actions always speak far louder than mere words of course, do they not! - https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy8xzxe0w7t
PS: Fun Facts: Assad originally trained as an eye sugeon at London’s then, world-beating Moorfields Hospital, where he married his English wife (still together today), then returned to Syria to supposedly turn around all the serious mayhem and carnage his brother & co had created. He ended up doing the exact opposite of course, though still being nicely recieved at Buck House by Brenda (with all the trimmings) and also given the open door to many other power-houses to-boot (as highly lucrative as very expensive weapons, etc, Exports always remain). Smart money now says that the only safe (sic) place he can now run to, is, er, Russia, but what will happen when that nutter finally gets kicked out too? Who cares? PPS: As a very small nipper, I had an eye-operation (squint-correction) at Moorfields, I’m certainly glad it wasn’t that crazy bastard, innit. „Not a’lotta people know this“
Also Posted – 08.12.24 x 2 – This picture was taken at my Dad’s brother’s ,Uncle George + Auntie Jenny’s (never knew her real name) house. We all enjoyed the relative comfort of living in Sunny Cowley Road, Ilford, at the time, far away. Jenny (a Christian) came from Jordan, (with its Sandhurst-trained King Hussain, having very close ties with the UK at the time, as indeed, does his son now too, King Abdullah II (also Sandhurst-trained - Fancy!) where he met her on his various travels. There were still (after over 20 years+) many bombsites in this rundown area of London, and I also vividly recall seeing many Othodox Jews here too, in their pitch black attire, rushing about here, there, and everywhere.
PS: There are also 4 direct Cousins moseying about somwhere too? I’d really love to see the expressions on certain family members ‚ever-racist and snobbish faces‘, if they just suddenly popped round for tea one fine day, right out of the old blue – Mike Leigh & Ken Loach both clearly come to mind - Oh Yes!  PPS: Though I do vaguely recall at least two of them doing pretty well in the old Investment Banking Game, with very low-interest loans strangely coming to mind? „Family, innit!“ but only when it suits naturally – „Cripes!“
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Posted - 11.12.24 - "Drinking Schnaps havin' fun, That's living alright"  - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-record-tourism-in-2024/a-71023782
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Posted – 15.12.24 – „Tee Hee Hee!“
Posted - 17.12.24 - What a Total Fucking Madhouse - Hooray! - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr36842nd6o
Posted - 18.12.24 - Hooray! But then back in the real world - "Cripes!" - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7vj1w9emo
Posted – 19.12.24 – Jennifer (snuffed it – 19.01.2017) Mum (sprung her mortal coil – 19.07.2021 – So-called Freedom Day, aged 55 + 83 respectively) – Jay & bruvver Hayden are still both doing fine as far as I can tell
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Also posted – 20.12.24 – My younger bruvver Dave sadly died at an early age (early 30's). On what turned out to be my very last visit to the UK in 1998, I fortunately spent some real quality time with him, shortly before his untimely demise, good memories that I’ll always cherish. One pretty funny recollection was when he was quite young, he and our Dad, went on our first ever flight experience, somewhere in deepest Northamptonshire. The pilot of the chunky old Auster Aerocat, had a student with him, and us three sat behind. At one point we started to dive a bit, to which the pilot calmly instructed „Hold up your nose! Hold up your nose!“ - Dave sitting to my right, promptly held his nose up as earnestly as he could – „Chocks away Blue Leader!“ PS: Got my entire Album & Single collection as a present too - Fancy!
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Posted – 24.12.24 – If anybody hapening to read this Blog, actually knows of any kids who can de facto read to a relatively decent level? Then this brilliant magazine is most definately for them, innit (and for much much older, adult inquisitive children too of course) - aquila.co.uk
Also Posted – 24.12.24 – Who remembers the good old days of lecky & gas, pay-meters then? I fondly recall the new colour telly running out of ten bob bits in the mid-70‘s, right during the FA Cup Final, when a few of the lads had come over to watch it. How impressed they all were, Mick Jones comes to mind too oddly enough! „Put another shillin in someone!“ https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/dec/24/prepayment-meters-could-cost-uk-households-third-income-winter-energy-bills

Posted – 25.12.24 –

 ‚FUN FACT‘

„Instagram, You Tube, Facebook, Tik Tok and Twitter make up the top five news sources for under-24s in the UK.“

Posted – 26.12.24 – Perhaps she should work at the ever-caring Post Office instead then? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20wzn8yqj0o


Posted – 27.12.24 – But will all that endless acidic commons rhetoric, be enough to dissolve parliament?
Posted – 29.12.24 – Those infamous old „International Gunrunners - Bruvvers wiv Arms“ (for both sides) Grandad Trotter & Uncle Albert, strangely come to mind here? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/28/smuggled-cannon-tower-of-london-ireland-dispute
Also Posted – 29.12.24 – For your own information + my own opinion – Now! Third Country Britain, has barely a fraction of its once, truly world-beating Forensic Science Services, with DNA (known here as DNS) etc, only being de facto expensively tested for the most lucrative of criminal cases. NDA’s (Non- Disclosure Agreements) are a ‚voluntary‘ way for very wealthy individuals & organizations to shut people up, (voluntary gagging agreements if you like - though not a legal order) by chucking loads of serious dosh at them, with the ominous warning, that if they ever dare to breach it, they’ll be sued right to the gunwhales, hindering any possible actual justice being done on the way too of course – „Cripes!“ PS: Another widely used legal tool (sic) used in today’s UK, are so-called SLAPP Orders (by the courts) usually used by seriously wealthy people once again, to shut gobby (sic) people up, though this time when breached, far tougher jailtime & bankruptcy consequences can ensue – https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/guidance/slapps-warning-notice/ - Hooray For Freedom!
Posted – 01.01.25 x 2 - Private Eye Magazine – London „Rotten Boroughs“ (issue 1639 – January 2025) – So no surprises there then, probably quite a few genius 'still living' Brexit voters residing yonder as well – Hooray!
Posted - 02.01.25 x 2 "Brilliant!"
Posted - 05.01.25 x 2 - PS: It was an elite Catholic College for Girls, and I was there to give an impromtu little talk (English being of the essence naturally).Having only left my own school a few years earlier, I was now working for British Rail, and the subject in hand was Trade Unions. I’d only recently become a union member myself, and this was the time of early Thatcher and her dire hatred of Closed Shop (meaning that if I wasn’t a union member, I couldn’t work there – a publically-funded state concern). It all got quite heated, in a pleasant way, and the jolly old concepts of free speech, democracy and fairness with public funds, all got quite a whacking – „Hooray for Maggie!“ - I got quite a nice round af applause at the end too „Cripes!“
Posted – 07.01.25 – Private Eye Magazine „Pseuds Corner’ – London (issue 1639 – January 2025)
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Posted – 12.01.25 x 3 - PS: That’s “fairly stunned by it all“ of course, a deliberate mistook, wunnit. Bus trips to Romford Market (by Picasso the tramp), both ‚there and back‘ too, naturally - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg2EbJy-9dc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q131ZJ6YkG0

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Posted - 13.01.25 - PS: Welshman's daft older bruvver lent him the Razzle Mag (half the pages were stuck together?)
Posted – 15.01.25 – x 2 – Well done Mr. Potter, innit. PS: It used to be a Tanner to get in to the Boys Entrance of the Chicken Run / Norf Bank at Upton Park, in my day John! (Wooden crate in hand, to stand on too of course) https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/cz0l74nrn91t

Posted – 16.01.25 – Cracking little Track, as well as bein her most favouritist song of all time too, innit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-r5dbGHvNk

Also Posted – 16.01.25 – FUN FACTS – „The UK has only 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people, to cope with one of the most obese and unhealthy populations on the planet. Germany has 7.9, Austria 7.2, France 5.8 and Belgium 5.6“ – ‚MD‘s Medicine Balls‘ – Private Eye Magazine – London (issue 1640 – January 2025)

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Also posted 17.01.25 - Despite a recent Foot and Mouth outbreak the show still goes on - Hooray! - https://www.berlin.de/en/events/2101366-2842498-international-green-week-berlin.en.html
 Posted – 20.01.25 – This has always been my favourite Mainstream Dylan Track – I still love it today, as much as I did then. Just before permanently leaving Blighty for foreign fields, I was indeed then the proud owner of all of his albums too – Hooray! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM
Also Posted 20.01.25 – Private Eye Magazine – London – Letters (Issue 1640 – January 2025) – I couldn’t but help be reminded of two highly prominent Methodist Pissheads here, namely Margaret Hilda Thatcher and George ‚Bushy‘ Warren Bush. I think my own early baptism in the same club (see top of page) hardly counts really, though like Eric C, I was also seemingly born with a „Raging Thirst“ too? , innit – „Two of your Best Pints of ‚Chin The Vicar‘ please John!“ - „Cripes!“

Posted – 21.01.25 – Some Guardian dreams followed by some Auntie dreams – Fancy! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/19/jack-kerouac-buddhist-writings-published - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8xykr5v95o

Posted – 22.01.25 x 3 – Good old Scaarsers, yer can always rely on them t’be one step ahead of the old shoeshine, innit
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Posted – 24.01.25 x 2 – The above story is so bloody unbelievable, it must be true – eh! Private Eye Magazine – London (issue 1640 – January 2025) - PS: The above brilliant ‚Insurance-themed‘ cartoon, reminded me of an old mate of mine, namely „The Kid“ (borrowed from „The Likely Lads“, no less) who’ll no doubt be currently most concerned, over London still helping that nice Mr Putin insure his rust-bucket tankers aka 'shadow fleet' all over the place? "The very Best of Luck anyway Kid, and I truly hope it doesn't adversely affect, your well-earned and deserved Retirement Knighthood in any way, either of course Mate!“
Posted - 25.01.25 - Course in real life he was a Spurs Fan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbA4eGpvUWo - PS: I had the great pleasure of seeing him Live in the late 70‘s, at The Whitehall Theatre (close to Parliament Square) which also boasted some very fine local pre-Show Boozers. „The Thoughts of Chairman Alf“ no less, a One-Man Show to-boot. He walked onto the totally packed-out Theatre Stage, sporting the standard Garnett garb, Hammers Scarf, Coat, and bottle of JW Red, and sat at the little basic wooden table in the middle. Silence ensued after the initial applause for his arrival, then came the immortal words „Are there any Australians here tonight?“ . To which a couple of shouts of „Yeah!“ from right up in the gods followed – then came back „Well you can bleedin well Fuck Orf for starters!“ - The place duly errupted with deafening hysterical laughter – a standing ovation in under 2 minutes, no bad starter for 10 in anybody’s book, issit. Loved him in early Avengers episodes too, the obvious chemistry with Steed & Peel was electric, they really must have all had so much fun on set, really? PPS: Fun Fact – Sunny EU Germany’s all-time favourite Telly Sit-Com is called ‚A Heart and a Soul‘ (roughly translated). Running from the early 1970‘s, (mainly with a live audience) through to the mid-late 70‘s, it’s main character is a chap called ‚Nasty Alfred‘ with his scatty wife, daughter and gobby son-in-law, all living under the same roof, here in West Berlin. Much more toned-down than Alf Garnett, his main bug is with Easterners rather than Northerners, though both are closely based on the idea’s of the brilliant Jonny Speight, no less – Fancy! NB: Unlike the original UK version (from the late 60‘s+ which is deemed far too politically incorrect these days for public channels) here, it’s regularly shown in its entirerity, (usually at Christmas) on mainstream public licence-funded telly – Hooray!
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Posted – 27.01.25 – https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-exiled-opponent-slams-lukashenkos-fake-win/a-71420303 - It has to be remembered that this unfunny CLOWN was Putins main rival for the top job in Moscow (and his track record actually made him more qualified too). Only because Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (de facto first-ever democratically elected President post- Gorby) took the young bog-standard KGB half-colonel (1 of many thousands in fact) runt, as his protegé, did he manage to crawl to where he is today. PS: Mr. Silly Moustache’s massive democriatc (sic) 7th-on-the-trot-victory yesterday, was exactly the same (87%) as his chum Vladimir’s last world-beating victory too – Fancy! PPS: Here in Sunny EU Berlin, he was shown last night on mainstream public Telly, cynically explaining how his beloved citizens really do all have a democratic choice „They can either vote to go to jail, or they can vote to go into exile!“ - „Cripes!“

 Also posted – 27.01.25 x 5 - PS: Correction - The above + 1 refers to „Brut“ (by Faberjee) of course, that well stinky kit wot Enery Cooper used ter Splosh all over his brekkers cornflakes, wunnit!

Posted – 30.01.25 – So things are really looking up then, but who to blame, you’ve brilliantly kicked all the nasty fully qualified & experienced EU foreigeners out? - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jan/30/some-children-starting-school-unable-to-climb-staircase-finds-england-and-wales-teacher-survey

Also posted – 30.01.25 – Here in the Sunny EU, we’re all acutely aware of the ongoing rank chaos that’s slowly, but surely, destroying Third Country Britain from within. Do Farage, Fatty Johnson and various other like-minded (sic) greedy nutters, still seriously think that they’re acting in the interests and good of The Nation? It simply defies all logic, that the money & time-wasting debate (sic) over the Heathrow Turd Runway for instance, is still actually taking place – Just where exactly will all these mysterious future extra millions of world-beating air travellors actually come from then? Mr. Orange’s Fucking Mars, or what? PS: One can only assume that any ‚tourists‘ mentioned in the above report are all mainly home-grown these days? it’s highly unlikely that foreigners aux-various, will be attracted to such ‚relatively expensive‘-‘generally pretty poor standards of service‘ anyway. PPS: I note that even the Penzance Pirates don’t want any ‚rotten to the core‘ Freeports in their pristine neighbourhood either – „Cripes!“
Yet another 2 posted on 30.01.25 – The above piece (also from afore-mentioned Magazine) brings Jade Goody to my mind, oddly enough?
Posted – 31.01.25 x 2 - „So no surprises there then!“
Posted – 01.02.25 – I’m really pleased to have finally tracked this great little Toe-Tapper down at long last - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUjHRpNUqyw

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Posted – 03.02.25 x 2 – The late, great, Tommy Cooper comes to mind with the above – „Mind you! it could’ve been like this!“
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Posted – 04.02.25 – Update to ‚Bad Cop‘ post (above) from 09.10.24
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Posted – 08.02.25 – The 5 years figure is only Fatty Johnson’s imaginary self-deluded time-frame of course, the actual figure is 2 years later, (when all 27 EU Members ‚officially‘ Ratified Brexit) ie, what actually ‚legally‘ real-world counts – „Cripes!“
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Also posted – 10.02.25 – „Mud The Hoople“ as the old man once most-amusingly opined one fine teatime, I was never a real fan of these guys, but a serious 10 out of 10 to them for their sheer perseverance and just doing it for so long, regardless! https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/mud-the-rak-years-1973-75/hnum/12130052
Posted – 11.02.25 – So who remembers the good old days with Rita then?
Posted – 12.02.25 – They’ll soon all weave their grubby little way around this latest cunning hurdle, innit – https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/12/rogue-landlords-in-england-to-face-curbs-on-housing-benefit-income-says-labour - „There Narf Bin Slum Greedy Bastards“ -
Also posted – 12.02.25 x 4 – Both Sunny Billericay & Benfleet  come to mind for some strange, er, reason?
Posted – 13.02.25 – Well Happy 75th then Peter Gabriel, some actually consider this video `‘High Art’ (The Big Apple's Guggenheim for instance) „Notta Lotta People Know This!“ - „Did You Know? **** ad infinitum“ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucK0K_-KAJs - https://www.guggenheim.org/
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Also posted – 15.02.25 – Please refer to above cartoon – posted - 31.01.25
Also posted today as well too – 15.02.25 – Exactly 50 years ago, my old mate Peter Mear and I started walking up to our local Moby Dick pub for a swift half or ten. Both aged 16, it was good to get a pint of Ben Truman Bitter for 17p, sometimes also as Light & Bitter, depending on which barman was on. I read yesterday that England’s current dearest pub pint goes for a whopping 6 quid and 36+ pence, and that’s full of chemical shit to-boot. My Grandad fondly once told me, that now, exactly 100 years ago, as a young newly-wed couple, they used to go for a week to Scarborough (from Wakefield) on the choo choo, all in, proper ale, wonderful fish & chips, etc, and all, and still come back with change from 3 quid (old money) - „Aye Lad! Those were t’days!“
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Also Posted – 16.02.25 – Considering the original British Yellow Submarine aka Thunderbird 4 arrived in 1964/5, did the second ‚Rip-Off‘ totally coincidental version by The Ruttles in, er, 1966, ever have to pay compensation I wonder?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series) -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(song)„Full Steam Ahead Number 1“
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Posted – 18.02.25 x 2 – But was it a Pirates Concert? PS: This is well worth a perusal too - https://www.thenewcartoonist.co.uk/home-1
Posted – 19.02.25 – Please refer to above Tommy Cooper-esque cartoon, posted on 03.02.25
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Posted - 24.02.25 - "Pretty Bubbles in Her Hair"
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Posted - 26.02.25 - Well that "Basingtoke College of Art - R. Trotter" sticker on the back, doesn't exactly inspire great confidence, now does it? - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/26/fresh-doubt-cast-on-authenticity-of-rubens-painting-in-national-gallery-samson-and-delilah
Also posted - 26.02.25 - PS: Smart money says, that they were soon all squabbling amongs’t themselves, over who got the old girl’s accommodation! In the most unlikely event of this poor lady actually having funds to legally defend herself, the real most likely life-scenario, would’ve been (especially in that neck of the woods) that she immediately got punped full of drugs (often by badly/untrained idiots - irrespective of her condition) and is probably now herself, long dead too?
Posted - 27.02.25 - But did Mr. Orange know his father? - https://www.dw.com/en/actor-gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-in-home/a-71765770
Also posted – 27.02.25 – "Leaf it Aaat John!" PS: Fun Facts: Oddly enough, of all the many thousands (literally) of serving H.M. Forces folk I met here attwixt 1981 > 1994 in Sunny EU Berlin, only two were de facto Londoners. One young chap named Geoff, (who'd just left Sandhurst, and was planning to later join his dad's firm after 5 years) the other named John, (an avid Millwall supporter/hooligan) who I just happened to go to school with once (Essex-born Mockney in fact) – Fancy! PPS: Although Sir (they finally gave him one in the end) Michael Caine did actually see combat action in Korea, he was reported to have said "It's much more fun playing soldiers on the big screen, miles better paid, and far less Bloody Dangerous!"
Posted – 28.02.25 x 2 – I've been considering getting Netflix for simply ages, and this latest news has really positively tipped my opinion. Can't wait to get it sorted, I absolutely adore non-stop Adverts me (they're all so really clever) – Hooray!
Posted - 01.03.25 - "Quite Right! Quite Right!"

Posted – 02.03.24 – Fun Fact! Mr. Orange ranted on for years that he was of Swedish stock, until it was finally proven beyond any doubt, that he was actually German-related. You'd think he'd choose one of those languages really, instead of boring old English, now wouldn't you? https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-designates-english-as-americas-official-language/ PS: Eng has absolutely no meaning in, er, English of course, but here in Sunny EU Germany, it's used by tens of millions of people, every jolly old day of the week - Fancy!

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Inform yourselves properly for once - https://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer/play/491
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Posted – 06.03.25 – Course now that all those brilliant & endless world-beating benefits of Brexit are slowly, but surely clicking in to place, The Yoof will all feel it the most, and especially this already socially-outcasted group of 100%, er, Third Country British kids – Hooray for Freedom!
Also posted – 06.03.25 – Eye 1643 "In The Back" (issue 1643 – March 2025)


Posted - 08.03.25 – Highly appropriate, what with today being "International Women's Day" (a National Holiday here in Sunny EU Germany of course) – Hooray!

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Posted – 09.03.25 – BREXIT just keeps on giving and giving and giving – Hooray! - https://www.ivisa.com/united-kingdom/apply-now?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=22190053167&utm_term=uk%20eta&utm_content=182946219748&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2qvzmfj8iwMVUkJBAh2hQguoEAAYASAAEgLakfD_Bw"Europeans can now apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to travel to the UK and will need one from 2 April 2025. The UK government is taking the last major step in the rollout of Electronic Travel Authorisation ( ETA ) for the millions of visitors who pass through the UK border every year." - Smart money says that millions of Europeans simply wont be arsed going there anymore, period! PS: They can save tens of millions on that eternal Third Heathrow Runway for starters – Hooray!

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Posted - 10.03.25 - Well at least the ever-greedy Fatty Johnson isn't screwing the Taxpayer this time around - "Cripes!" - https://www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Posted - 11.03.25 - Liverpool comes to mind???
Also posted - 11.03.25 - Don't make em like that no more - https://www.chindits.info/   
Posted – 11.03.25 as well - Just flown in by my Norfolk Correspondent Wing Commander Eggy McEggyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_uEbGJtnY "The Barking balladeer pawned" (and very good it is too)
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Posted – 13.03.25 – PS: No relation – Athough there's no shortage of well Greedy Gits in our family (inverted snobs (the worst kind) Yeah! But there most certainly are no Toffs, Greedy or otherwise
Also posted 13.03.25 - It's "Potty Time" - Hooray! https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/11/toilet-training-and-cutlery-use-key-part-of-englands-school-readiness-skills-list -  "Mum! What's Floss?" - "Stop asking daft bloody questions, and eat your chips will you, or there'll be no crisps, Coke and chocky for pudding"

Posted - 14.03.25 - Lovely Guitar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbJhdc2zLz0

Also posted – 14.03.25 – As a personal comment, the following came to mind after reading this article. Here in Sunny Federal (16 States) EU Berlin/Germany, any individual applying for any job involving children (in any scenario) requires an actual police-justice-record-statement (Advanced) easily availiable via local government offices. This statement (unlike the bog-standard one that can be obtained by post eventually) must be directly connected to the new post being applied for (it can't easily be manipulated). Nothing is 100% secure of course, (especially where pretty cunning and highly manipulative people are often invovled) but it's about as good as it gets I feel. Unfortunately certain private religious organizations, etc, do seem to let quite a lot of dodgy individuals through the net, although they are actually 'legally-bound' to require these advanced-police-justice-record-statements, and the old "I've/we've known him for years, he's as good as gold" blarney, (if not cheap) simply is not a viable excuse in AD 2025, period. PS: England alone currently boasts a quite ridiculous 43 completely seperate police f[a]orces. Many of their commanders (sic) are de facto civilians who've never actually been in uniform, though wield considerable local influence in their pretty bronze, silver & gold guises. Petty inter-force rivaly is ever-rife and extremely counter-productive, with low standards of training (much more coming soon) and many an indivudual who should never be let near a warrant card, finding it easy to get a job (not to mention, often second jobs on top) Now what could possibly go wrong, and who will ultimately be blamed? - Hooray! PPS: Smart money says - The chances of me being stopped in the street, harrassed, bricks through my windows, etc, etc, if I actually now lived in Third Country Britain, are pretty damned high I reckon (even as a complete nobody) – "Cripes!"

Posted – 15.03.25 - They named him Scouse for some strange reason - Beats me? https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=5bd1f02db58af4590553c244c32a1ef1a3889cf3

Also posted - 15.03.25 x 7 - https://www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_C4PDSfQJA & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11qjmvTdJ8 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FBDCmibOM4 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxtduqQrglY & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6AjiuNPBd8 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPhBH2JFiQ

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Also posted – 16.03.25 – As a personal observation, I think that if Fatty Johnson & Co were still running (sic) the show, this ruling would have panned out very differently indeed. The hypocrisy of Third Country British so-called Fairplay is highlighted here very clearly (and is unlikley to be seen in any other media outlets either). Fun Facts: Matrix Chambers was the old stomping ground of LSE-trained Scouse Cherie Blair (who she?) she became a QC (now KC, just like Our Keir) and later a Judge (as well as long-term Fan & Friend of Sir Cliff) presiding over various 'Human Rights' cases, costing the UK taxpayer very very large sums of dosh indeed – The price of Justice I suppose, innit - "I think it's impotent" – Our Teflon Tony was a barrister too of course – Hooray! PS: My own Mum was also a great Fan of Sir Cliff's, often fondly reminscing at seeing him Live as a spotty teenager. Unlike Our Cherie though, after all the totally false Auntie and Daily Wail rubbish came out, she simply vanished him from her mind. Even when it was later indesputibly (and very expensively costed to the taxpayer) proven that it was all totally Fake News, and a most ridiculous Witch Hunt it still didn't change her (and many others with heads long-term in the sand) stance unfortunately. If Our Cliff hadn't had the good friends and reputation he had/s (as well as a strong character to-boot) 'Love him or Loathe him' I'm sure he would have been eventually beaten by the wolves. This, (like the story above) shows the mind-blowingly destructive power of Trumpian-esque False Accusations at a very high level and on a major scale, does it not? PPS: Like many others, Sir Cliff regularly did Benefit Concerts here in Sunny EU Berlin & BAOR (for many years in fact) for The British Military Community, I once handed him his bill upon leaving our little Hotel one fine early morning (Duty Rates naturally) – to which he gleefully said "Ta! I'll pass it on to my people!"

Posted – 17.03.25 x 2 – PS: The Royal Navy's latest Flagship Carrier is named after the Virgin Queen of course, so perhaps that picture was taken up on the deck of that then? Where's Uncle Albert, he'll know for sure?

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Posted - 19.03.25 - "All Have A Nice Old Loud Sing-along - Hooray!" - https://x.com/i/status/1901915855983944075 PS: You might have to wait a moment or two until it clicks in properly?

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Posted - 22.03.25 - You don't find many of these at the bottom of a cereal packet - https://www.dw.com/en/boxing-legend-george-foreman-dies-aged-76/a-72003819

Posted – 23.03.25 – If I had a quid for every one of these wholly-negative caustic tossers I've bumped into over the years, I'd be able to give up my day job, innit.

 Posted - 24.03.25 x 2 - Better than Breaking Wind I suppose! - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/24/dominic-cummings-breaks-silence-after-secret-dinner-with-nigel-farage
"I'm your private Spinner, a Spinner for money, and any old Punter will do"
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Posted – 26.03.25 x 2 "Yabba Dabba Doo!"
 Posted – 27.03.25 – "Just putting the cat out dear!" - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70e2kxjg28o
 Also posted - 27.03.25 "That'll lern em, wunnit!" "Not to be missed" - https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/136
Posted – 28.03.25 – "Now there's a geezer wot knows is onions" – "I had to check my old A to Z to confirm it was kosher!"
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 Posted - 28.03.25 as well - They even sell The Eye now - well posh - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3n3en7gppo "WH Smith's first shop opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London and the company became the country's principal newspaper distributor"

Posted - 29.03.25 x 4 - 'Excellent'
Also posted – 29.03.25 x 2 – Please refer to cartoons above, posted on 25.02.25 and 20.03.25 respectively
Posted – 30.03.25 – Not to forget those who did actually manage a reasonable education and training too of course. The clueless, bloody-minded selfishness, of all those old fools (many long-dead already) who blindly voted for Racist-fuelled B, have seriously stymied chances for The UK (now Third Country British) Yoof for many generations to come, period. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/30/whitehall-teenagers-greater-manchester-mayor-andy-burnham-education-young-people – Erasmus anybody? (just for starters) "Hooray for freedom – It's only just begun" "Join t'Tharmy and see the World"
Also Posted - 30.03.25 - I've often wondered if this 'Advert' actually subliminally drew me towards Europe all those years afore? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfo61QYhTc8
Long Weight or Striped Paint anybody?
Posted – 01.04.25 x 5 – The above brings Cooper T, Barker R, and Jason D & Co, all strongly to mind – Fancy!
Also posted – 01.04.25 – Brummie (Third Country Britain's Second City) was once proudly known for the best Ruby Murrays on the planet, (Khyber Pass aka High Street) now it’s simply famous for its stinking, putrid roads and sidewalks – Hooray! - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjlerkp31wo

Posted – 02.03.25 – (very early in the morning) "May I respectfully raise my well-filled Pusser's Navy Rum (Gunpowder Proof) glass, to Vice Admiral P. Monk (RN Rtd) of whom's mortal curl demise on 17th March, I have just been personally & most dutifully informed of – 'Boatswain's Call' to be accordingly afforded on main deck.

Posted – 02.04.25 x 5 – Avid Eye Readers have been well aware of all this for some years now too of course - https://wildjustice.org.uk/category/gamebird-releases/
PS: Above piece taken from Private Eye „Pseuds Corner“ (issue 1645 – April 2025) – 
 „So give me 2 pints of that then please Captain!“
02.04.24 as well
 Posted – 03.04.25 – It seems that ever-Sunny Hull aka Ull, just can't keep itself out of the Jolly Old News these days – "Cripes!" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6jv4yxvgwo PS: I bet all those clever old Tossers up there, (who are still living that is) who proudly voted for the Racist-Fuelled Brexit Farce, still very much relish their wholly selfish world-beating-clueless-decision? It’s only just begun to divulge all the truly-gained-benefits of course – Hooray!
Also posted - 03.04.25 - "I blame it all on Hull personally"

Posted - 04.04.25
 Posted - 06.04.25 - Well done ever-Greedy Nigel, I hope you're getting paid nicely for strutting your pro-Donald stuff? - https://www.dw.com/en/hands-off-demos-against-trump-and-musk-across-us-europe/live-72149383
 Posted – 07.04.25 – What a Fucking Third Country British Madhouse - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2641weqego
 Posted – 08.04.25 – In a perfect Third Country British Future this kind of Heat & Energy Management would quite simply be a No-Brainer of course - https://www.energiraven.com/heat-highways/ PS: Here in Sunny EU Germany, the first stages of a major National Project to re-distribute renewable energies in the form of Direct Current (DC) via undergound cables (slowly removing all ugly overground pylons along the route) are under way. When this power reaches its required destination, it’s then re-converted into Alternating Current (AC) to be used locally, accordingly. Energy prices vary greatly at the moment from North to South, the latter being much more expensive, so this kind of re-distribution is to put it simply, quite brilliant. When Hydrogen is finally ‚fit for purpose‘ (hopefully in the near future) the recently built (in record time) 4 new gas terminals on the Northern EU German coast (to combat the ever-dangerous Russian gas dependence) will also covert entirely to that as well – Hooray!

Posted - 08.04.25 as well - "Bloomin Marvellous"
Posted – 10.04.25 x 2 – Please refer to the ‚Brummie‘ piece above – posted - 01.04.25
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Posted – 11.04.25 x 3 – Above from Private Eye Magazine London (issue 1646 April 2025)

Posted – 12.04.25 – This reminds me fondly, of how senior, serving Army & RAF Officers (most of whom I knew personally) blatantly & greedily enriched themselves from public funds (thinking nobody had noticed), here in Sunny EU Berlin too. These copious funds were de facto German-Taxpayer monies, meant for locally employed civilians (LEC’s) etc, etc, but simply through slight of hand, and quite obvious Masonic jiggery-pokery to boot, simply went AWOL – „Cripes!“
Posted – 13.04.25 – Course here in Sunny EU Berlin, they’d call him Lord Handy (the standard word for mobile phones here) - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24qv74nzq2o

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 Posted – 14.04.25 – The perfect little number for Europe & Third Country Britain to enjoy at present methinks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7Vn_WKkWU
But who’s The Clown and Who’s The Joker?
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Posted – 15.04.25 x 4 – Re- Above „ I wonder if she encounters many Lythsps then?“ - So what’s the major difference attwixt Steed playfully patting Mrs Peel’s famous derriere on the sofa (Oh Yes he did! When they both weren’t quite themselves) and Delboy of Fools & Horses infamy, slapping well-posh Miranda’s fine pert arse? John didn’t have to ask Emma if she fancied a curry, obvious, innit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GUjA67mdc
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Posted – 17.04.25 – „Hooray For Freedom“ – „No bloody EU Rubbish fucking up our world-beating Third Country British schools – Oh No!“ - „So why isn’t Our Nige PM yet then?“ - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/17/a-third-of-uk-school-staff-report-physical-underdevelopment-in-poor-students

 Posted – 18.04.25 x 6 – „Triffic All“
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Posted – 24.04.25 x 2 – Various posts above, also refer to Brummie’s Newly-Found International Fame!
 Also posted – 24.04.25 – These unfunny, clueless-clowns are the real FARCE that will eventually take Third Country Britain right down into the gutter and beyond – „Cripes!“ - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/undercover-far-right-hope-not-hate-harry-shukman

Posted - 25.04.25 x 3 - I bet the exhausts on those e-vehicles really stink as well?
 Posted - 26.04.25 - Brilliant Stuff, period - https://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award

Posted – 27.04.25 - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/27/bergen-belsen-survivors-mark-80th-anniversary-of-camp-liberation We also commemorate the 80th Annivesary of the end of WWII on the 8th of May, here in Sunny EU Berlin (only) with a one-off Public Holiday

Posted - 28.04.25 x 2
 Also Posted – 28.04.25 – It’s been a long time since I last heard this little cracker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA

Posted – 29.04.25 x 3 – „Hunt for Brown October“ comes to mind oddly enough? Source „Classified“ – PS: 10% of the RN’s aka Senior Service, Nuclear-powered ‚Boats‘ still run on, er, Russian-made Fuel Rods - Fancy!
Posted – 29.04.25 as well – Source Top Secret (or give Dave a score in the Tiger Tavern and he’ll reveal all)
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Posted - 01.05.25 - Well Stanway's certainly changed a touch since I was last there, innit - https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/impressive-essex-village-biggest-sainsburys-9887030
Posted – 02.05.25 – It’s pretty difficult to decide just who are the more mindless these days, Trump’s Racist, totally-clueless blind-followers, or Greedy Nigel’s Racist, totally-clueless blind-followers? https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c39jedewxp8t
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 Posted - 04.05.25 - Whitehall made a bloody fortune with this highly HYPOCRITICAL Number WOTTA SCAM
Also posted - 04.05.25 x 3 - "So No Surprises There Then!" - "Comin Over Here" - PS: The term Muslim was never even mentioned until right up to the late 1970's - Fancy!

Posted 05.05.25 - I do simply love those RAF Eurofighters, pretending to be Typhoons though - "Chocks Away Chaps"  

Posted - 06.05.25 - As much loved as he is, it must be said that he's had a pretty decent run for somebody who's not actually qualified in anything - So which Youngsters Today could get so far I wonder?

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Posted – 07.05.25 x 2 – Just about sums up anything North of Watford perhaps? PS: I’ve always liked this Jolly old Railway Tune too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRQjzltaMQ
 Posted - 08.05.25 - It must be true if it's on here then - Hooray!

Also posted – 08.05.25 – So I wonder what both Sir Winston & Dame Maggie (convinced Europhiles) would make of this well screwed-up dogs dinner of today then?
Posted – 09.05.25 x 2 – The truly excellent cartoon above, reminds me of The Falklands ‚Conflict‘, (only much later referred to as a ‚War‘, so Maggie could very publically hand out high-value medals). No professional Press/Journalists were allowed to be present/imbedded, only the Army’s own Press Corp aka the Met investigating itself, and one solitary BBC artist (pencil and all, no camera) „Cripes!“ 
Also posted - 09.05.25 - London's ever-Greedy 'Marine Insurers' have been happily covering these Rust Buckets legal-requirements all along of course - "Ahoy Me Hearties"
Also posted - 10.05.25 x 2 - Both of the above correspondent gentlemen shall go far I feel - PS: That was about the age that I started reading The Eye too, as it happens - Fancy!
 Posted - 12.05.25 x 3 -
So it's off to just about  everywhere else except Third Country Britain then - Hooray for Nigel & Co - No Qualified Person In Their Right MInd Will Be Attracted To Such 2nd Class Rubbish - "Cripes!"

Posted – 13.05.25 x 5 – By using Telepathy, try to deduce which one I found to be the most brilliant? Correction – posted – 23.05.25 – „Psychokinesis would only impact the mind of the speaker. To produce a physical reaction and thus raise his hand would require telekinesis“ – Professor David C Sanders, Mortain-Bocage, France – „That’s what I kept telling grandad too, but would he listen?“

Posted - 14.05.25 - So I wonder which one of Fatty Johnson's many 'fit for purpose' World-Beating Third Country British A&E Units, this one can proudly be attributed to then?
Posted – 15.05.25 – Private Eye Magazine – London „In The Back“ (issue 1648 – May 2025) – Talk about bleedin Building-Site Safety Cowboys - Now just imagine if it had been Cameron’s own house instead – PS: Not to forget the most salient fact too, that the Kosher history books have him well marked as being the most de facto destructive Prime Minister (sic) in British history – „Cripes!“
 Posted – 16.05.25 x 2 – Course the England Olympic Football Team were all happily giving the Hitler Salute in Sunny Berlin, not too long after this - "Cripes!" - PS: The Great Uncle Albert ‚falling down pub cellars scam comes to mind here‘ – After reading out a long list of other previous similar offences, the judge says „During the war you were stationed overseas you say?“ - „Yes Sir!“ - „Here it says you were stationed in a Navy storage depot on the Isle of Wight?“ - „You try walkin it your honour!“ - PPS: Rodney (his real name – honnist) the boss of the Crab & Lobster in Bembridge - IOW, told me that very few pubs there, actually had cellars due to the very loose moist sandy earth – Young Albert had learned his 'falling skills' there of course - Fancy! 
 Posted – 17.05.25 – Seriously well worth listening to, if you have even a snippet of real-world interest/concern in today’s UK -
  Part One - Part Two -  
  PS: Apologies for the initial short German ads (they vanish very quickly, so patience really is a virtue here)

Posted – 18.05.25 – x 3 – Despite this terrible accident being an awful tragedy, I still couldn’t help being reminded of my favourite ‚most ancient‘ mini-video - No Comment – Please Click Here

Also posted - 18.05.25 - PS: "Great stuff too Palace"
Posted - 19.05.25 x 3 - East Road Bonfire Night 1979 & Studying Edward Munch
 Posted - 20.05.25 - "Ooh And It Makes Me Wonder!"

Posted – 22.05.25 – „Now’t ser strange as folk lad!“ - So I wonder when Our Nige will set up his very own ‚world-beating‘ AI Social Media Hub, too then?
Posted - 24.05.25 x 6 - Fun Fact: The UK Enjoys Boasting The Oldest Housing Stock In The World - Hooray!
Posted - 25.05.25 x 6 - "Great British Railways" What a fantastic new idea - "This Is The Age Of The Train" - Hooray!


Posted – 27.05.25 x 3 – Private Eye Magazine – London
  „In The Back“ (issue 1649 – May 2025) x 3
Posted – 28.05.25 x 3 – „Well that's what they do do, don’t they?“

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 Posted – 31.05.25 – Course Fatty Johnson will be celebrating the world-beating dogs dinner he created in Cornwall (after creaming off a nice bit for himself too naturally) – „Flying Oggies Cripes!“ - "It Was 50 Years Ago Today" 
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Posted – 01.06.25 - PS: He really did go out with a Chinese bird once!
Posted - 02.06.25 - Great to see Third Country Britons falling for the old "Let's get Battle Ready Chaps" again - "Hooray for Sir Keir!" - All other problems simply vanished overnight of course - And There's Always More Too Of Course - Fancy!
Posted - 03.06.25 - Not to forget the last 15 years too, naturally - "Cripes!" "Well I'll Be Badgered!"
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Posted – 04.06.25 x 7 – Yet more truly inspiring little masterpieces courtesy of the Lord Gnome Stable
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 Posted – 06.06.25 – I had great fun watching the fairly recent film based on this classic story last night – First time too - "Anchors Away Chaps!"   PS: Right from about 10 years old, I was (and still am) an avid late night Shortwave Radio Fan
Also posted – 07.06.25 – The ever-present Arrogance of ‚the powers that be‘ (sic) never ceases to amaze me. This major National Scandal (now one of many) also simply being left to ‚hopefully go away‘ (aka the accused dying in prison) would be difficult to imagine happening here in EU Germany (mainly because ‚so-called medical experts‘ would simply not get away with serial bullshitting, period). Without Private Eye (especially MD in this case) this would all have simply been brushed under the carpet long ago – Who Cares? Even many of the dead babies parents are now well on Letby’s side, let’s just hope she can survive this obvious torture, both mentally and physically, a future BBC Filum must surely be in the offing (seemingly the only thing the ever-caring UK public give a toss about these days of course) – Sad but True.
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 Posted – 09.06.25 x 2 – Above - Please also refer to Front Page, posted 23.05.25  Good Old London E15 
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Posted – 11.06.25 x 2 – I’m sure there’s quite a few out there, who’d simply love a long-weekend in such an original setting - 
Where's The Fat Controller's Bed Then?

Posted – 12.06.25 x 4 – I remember that fine day very well (not the return journey so much though?). Young JT and I took our last little jaunt, before I permanently headed overseas (not the Isle of Wight). „Avvin a larf darn Barf“ – Those priv tickets really served me well, over the time I was at Sunny Chadders BR Power Supplies – „What a day we’ve had!“ as little Micky Moore (father of 6-7 +- with his distinct Irish accent, his local being most appropiately named The Joker at Seven Kings, no less) would amusingly shout at the end of every hard day’s graft, (and it was too) though always with a good Teamwork atmosphere in the Depot! We were really quite a mixed bunch, with many being highly qualified and experienced men, some also close to retirement (of who's matter of fact Wartime Tales would really put Uncle Albert to shame)

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Posted – 14.06.25 x 2 – I fondly recall bottling up Worthington White Shield IPA at the Coopers Arms, way back in 1972/3 – PS: The only other Live Beer (Porter) sold there, being bottled Guinness, the term Real Ale was literally unheard of (well by me then, at least) - Fancy!
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Posted - 18.06.25 x 2 - Humourless, Miserable Northern Gits + Excellent Report
Posted – 19.06.25 x 2 – Private Eye Magazine – London (issue 1651 – June 2025)
Posted – 20.06.25 – It’s strange some 50 years later, to now be reading this piece and indeed recalling, those many trips aux various (green line bus from the Moby, bike, trusty KTM funky moped, train, car) to Sunny Saarfend on Sea in my Yoof. Now being a German- speaker 99% of the time (I haven’t actually spoken coherent English for some years now) the Kursaal has a completely different meaning to me. Then it was „Avvin a'Wurzel Darn the Kurzel“ (with absolutely no idea what it meant). ‚Kur‘ means literally ‚Cure‘ and can be compared to such places as Leamington Spa, Bath aka Barf, and Sunny Skidrow on Sea aka Brighton & Hove, (where one went on a Kur – then mainly for wealthy Toffs) with ‚Saal‘, literally meaning ‚Hall‘. PS: It’s still possible to go on a Kur these days here in Sunny EU Germany as well, for various reasons (usually paid for by ones health insurance) and very expensive they are too. PS: I had one (for 6 weeks) in 1984 for Burnout, then one can go on holiday afterwards, (31+1 fully paid leave days anually, was fairly normal then) – Fancy!
Also posted – 20.06.25 – Some Wonderful
 Barry Fantoni Classic Magic x 3 – PS: That last one reminds me somewhat of a ‚Derek & Clive‘ sketch a’la Peter Cook
Posted – 21.06.25 x 3 – Check out those well gwoovy hercuts - Fun Fact: EU Finland is the only country in the world that offers 100% Free Quality Education to all of its citizens, from Kindergarten to University – So who will ever be brave & wise enough to follow suit then?
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Posted – 24.06.25 x 4 - I found the above video to be very funny too
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Posted – 26.06.25 – This little GEM was very much enjoyed last night. A brand new French-made filum over the antics & beginnings of the MADNESS UPRISE – The joint French/German, publically-funded channel arte (non-commercial) as per always, hit the old nail right on the head - 
"Rock On Camden!"

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Posted – 01.07.25 – So it looks like somebody has finally woken up and smelt the coffee then – Letby is obviously totally innocent, how much longer must this Farcical Justice (sic) continue?
Posted – 02.07.25 – Time to properly educate yourselves again Folks! - Skip The First 25 Seconds Or So
 Posted - 03.07.25 x 3 - Well He Is A Lifelong Villa Fan Afterall
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Posted - 05.07.25 x 4 - Tory Mantra In All But Name  
Posted - 06.07.25 - Who The Fuck Needs Boring Old Oasis Anyway?
Posted – 07.07.25 
Posted – 08.07.25 x 5 - PS: Half a gallon of Sarson's oddly comes to mind? PPS: Fun Facts! Interestingly – YAWN! Sarson’s Vinegar (and similar malt-based products aux various) wasn’t legally allowed to be sold here in Sunny EU Berlin/Germany, because it infringes the wonderful Beer Purity Law of 1516, no less. Half a dozen small British Produce Speciality Shops once sold it here for silly prices, (t'NAAFI had it on draught) but good old bad old Brexit has put paid to all of them, I think just one still exists here in the City somewhere? I’d better not even mention my once belov’ed Marmite – „Cripes!“
 Posted - 09.07.25 x 2 - Oh How They Do All Love A Nice Funeral PS: The Vicar better watch out for his hat, with that lot of thieving bastards about! Yet More Fine TRASH!
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Also posted . 10.07.25 – His latest track ‚Come On‘ is well worth listening too as well (on Spotify) – (reminds me in parts of Wings' - Band on The Run, no less) – His Northern English Accent Is Unsually Prominentt
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Posted - 11.07.25 -  So lots of nodding heads there then

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Posted – 12.07.25 x 4 - PS: Spot the odd one out: Ilford, Chelmsford, Wickford, Oxford, Romford, Dagford, Chingford, Thetford – Yes you got it! It’s Romford of course – All the others are pretty decent tolerant places to live, obvious, innit.

Posted – 13.07.25 x 4 – Picasso’s Guernica – probably the greatest piece of human art, to protest against human war - To Be Taken With A Large Pinch Of Salt - First I've Heard About It Grauniad?
Posted  - 14.07.25 x 4 - But Will This Proposed 'New Scheme' Ever Prove Cunning Enough, To Actually Be Deemed Fit For Purpose?
 Posted – 17.07.25 x 3 - But Will Our Nige Have A Say Too? "Larfin Larfin Larfin"
 Posted - 18.07.25 x 4 - "Cripes!" 

Posted - 19.07.25 x 4 - PS: Fun Perspective Thoughts: Along with the obvious political dangers these kind of scams could/may well trigger in the not too distant future, the following also occurred to me as well. Recently, it was announced that the first ever woman footballer (Canadian) would be going for a record $1 million transfer fee, with the winners (Chelsea FC) of the above-mentioned Club World Cup thingie, cashing in a well cushty, er, $100 million to-boot. That’s also = 1 x Harry Kane to Bayern too, no less – Fancy! 
 Posted  - 20.07.25 - I can think of somebody, who'll most definately have lots to say about this!
Also posted -20.07.25 – World-Beating Northern Humour (sic) – PS: I had to look it up?
Posted – 21.07.25 x 3 – Fun Fact: Not to forget too of course, that just as with Osbourne, Cameron. Fatty Johnson, et al, Kwarteng is also an ‚untouchable‘ Old Etonian – „Cripes!“
Posted – 22.07.25 – Private Eye Magazine – London „Letters“ (issue 1653 – July 2025) – Mr Webster, makes a highly valid and excellent point here, just imagine how today would have panned out, if UK troops (probably National Service at that) had been sent in to Nam. PS: Plus my own two-pennyworth as well – Harold Wilson was the youngest ever graduate at Oxford to gain a double-first (perhaps his obvious wisdom did us all a great favour, well in this case at least). Australia did send its soldiers to help the Yanks in Vietnam, but they have a different mind-set and regional motives, I feel. Not commonly known, but many of the Soviet troops ie the opposition, were German. Polish, Ukranian, etc, etc, too – That nice Mr Putin still seems to think that his current, far far smaller Russian Federation of today (though still de facto the world's largest country landmass-wise) is still actually that? - „Cripes!“
Also posted – 22.07.25 – But will they ever be able to find a decently-priced & experienced vet, actually qualified enough to perform this truly grisly task?
Posted - 27.07.25 x 5 - It Sounds Pretty Good To Me - PS: Posted 90 Minutes before kick-off
Posted – 29.07.25 x 4 – Being an avid Fan of Mike Leigh’s work, as well as Timothy Spall & Co’s too, watching this little gem last night for the very first time, was really most enjoyable, I must say – He’s come a really long long way from the old ‚Aufwiedersehen Pet’ days and that‘s a Fact! - Young Vicky Was Definately Not Amused!
 Posted - 30.07.25 x 2 - Must All Be True Then - Eh? & We All Know What Most Of The Locals Are Really Thinking Of Course - "Cripes!"
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 Posted - 01.08.25 x 2 - 'Magic Money Indeed' & Please refer to above post from 24.07.25 
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Posted - 02.08.25 x 3 - In Reality, The Dire Consequences Of Brexit Are Only Just Beginning Of Course - Hooray For Freedom! & Worse Things Happen At Sea & An absolute must to listen to, if you genuinely believe that you value Freedom of Speech! 
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Posted -  05.08.25 - Mr Derek Trotter Esq, Oddly Comes To Mind?
Posted – 06.08.25 x 3 – "Well those Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the West behind"  
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Posted - 10.08.25 - "Hip Hip Hooray For Freedom!"
Posted – 11.08.25 – Course all those clever old Racist-Fuelled Brexit Tossers, not only drove tens of thousands of fine businesses out of the country, they also drove millions of well-qualified and experienced UK TAXPAYERS too – „Herman ze German“ at Westminster for instance, is very sorely missed by all – The pandemic is simply a convenient ruse for Westminster to blame everything on too of course - „Cripes!“ (As Fatty Johnson Would No Doubt Agree) Fun Fact: It’s just been reported here today in ‚mainstream quality-public-offline-German-media‘ that an even older Bratwurst stand has been now found in Erfurt, dating right back to the 12th Century no less – Fancy!

Also posted – 11.08.25 x 3 + "Well Done 'Yet Again' To Crystal Palace - Hooray!"
Posted - 12.08.25 x 5 - And so the great Farce continues, with the 'powers that be' just wishing it'd all simply go away and be forgotten about!

Posted - 13.08.25 x 3 - "There Narf Bin Some Clever Bastards"
  Posted – 14.08.25 – "Mum! - What's For Pudding?" - "Wait and See", was always a firm favourite! 
Posted – 15.08.25 – A bit of the old proper contextual-balance is always a good thing methinks, innit. PS: Fun Fact: Whilst watching my local evening News the other day, here in Sunny EU Berlin (on mainstream quality public telly) I nearly choked to death. The JD Vance, Cotswolds visit was being briefly reported upon, and just as I had my mouth full of cheese butty with Bio Dijon-Löwensenf, some clown waved a protest placard, right in front of the bloody camera. „SOD OFF!“ it quaintly advised, I laughed my bloody head off, almost fatally, dangerous bloke that JD fucking Vance, really! (Wether that was actually visible in the UK too, I haven’t a clue? but I sure hope it was)
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Posted – 16.08.25 x 4 – Great Stuff Really – Though I have to admit, the football did remind me somewhat of an early Monty Python sketch

Posted – 17.08.25 x 6 - "GREAT STUFF"
 Posted – 18.08.25 x 2 – I was highly surprised and delighted to watch this excellent new UK Cop Series on mainstream German public (non-commercial) telly last night (original English version optional too) - Watch Out Vera & Yet another fine example of Third Country British self-destruction
 Posted – 19.08.25 – I watched this truly fascinating clip fairly recently. Before the days of gramophones, radio & telly, etc, besides live performances, there wasn’t really anything else artistically-scientifically to occupy the average inquireing mind, barring books too naturally. These highly technical and brilliantly-made light-machines were generally only available to the very rich – "Not A Lot Of People Know This" - Fancy!
Posted – 20.08.25 x 2 - Divine Directions – And then take a sharp left where the old wooden church used to be
Posted - 21.08.25 x 5 - "Clueless, Pathetic, Rubbish, As Is Now The Usual, In Very Broken Third Country Britain!"

Posted - 22.08.25 x 6 - So No Surprises There Then
 Posted – 23.08.25 – "Jolly Good Show You Tottenham Chaps!" Keeping The Manc Scum Down For Awhile – Not actually sure when The Hammers will finally start their season though? PS: The Mighty Gunners enjoy first place at this moment in time too (after two games) Hooray! 
Posted - 24.08.25 x 3 - But Who Knew? - PS: This link initially (an hour ago) led to a report on massive UK use of facial-recognition kit (by far the largest anywhere in Europe) which has now magically vanished? "Cripes!"
Posted - 25.08.25 x 4 - I Can Smell The Blatant Ignorant Hypocrisy From Here - Hooray!
 Posted - 26.08.25 - Certain parties are cashing in bigstyle here of course - Hooray for Taxpayers Endless Dosh! PS: Not to forget that EU Britain could legally send them all back, now Third Country Britain can't do Fuck All - "Cripes!"
 Also posted – 26.08.25 – A First For Me, And Jolly Interesting It Is Too! 
Posted – 27.08.25 x 5 - So Who's Picking It All Now Then? & EU Visitors To Third Country Britain Are Way Way Down Now Too - Yanks Never Travelled Much (except in uniform) Overseas Anyway - Hooray!
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Posted 29.08.25 x 4  "And This Really Shouldn't Be Missed Either!"
Posted - 30.08.25 x 5 -  "Oh Dear!" "So what are all those clueless little nazis going to do now then?"
Posted – 01.09.25 x 2 - Top New Track - Well Worth An Earwig!

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Posted - 03.08.25 x 7 - Some Classic Brilliant Minds At Work Here - And That's A FACT! & "I Shall Always Remain A Great Fan Of This Too - Hooray!"

Posted - 04.09.25 x 3 - Sunny last-century Leytonstone, and the last Sunday night 66 bus home, comes to mind!
Also posted - 04.09.25 - The above is from March 2015
 
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Also toasted – 05.09.25 – „Crumpet Posting“ November 1982
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Posted - 10.09.25 - Third Country Britain's Well On Track To Becoming World Champion - Hooray! & Fatty Johnson'd Simply Love It - "Cripes!" 

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Posted – 12.09.25 x 3 – „Ah Yes! - The Well Good Old Days – Two large Old English’s and a box of Maltesers please John!“ - „School in the morning“

Also  posted – 12.09.25 – "How on earth can custard be cowardly anyway? Cripes!“

Posted - 13.09.25 x 4 - "Brixton's Greatest Son" - Major John's A Big Fan Too By All Accounts - Fancy! & It's All Just An Act
Also posted 13.09.25 -  Please refer to above 'Kabul' cartoon posted yesterday

 Posted  - 14.09.25 x 7 - That'll be "Jon & Mick" just above of course


Posted - 17.09.25  x 4 - No Comment Required

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 Posted - 19.09.25 x 3 - Well Just Fancy That! 
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 Posted - 21.09.25 x 3 - The Very Heart Of Brave Brexiteer-Land - Hooray! 
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Posted – 27.09.25 x 6 - Well How Fuckin Good's That Then? 

Posted - 29.09.25 x 3 - And Oh! How I Laughed
Posted - 30.09.25 - PS: A true pedant would correctly point out of course, that British judges don't actually use gavels - Fancy! 
Posted - 01.10.25 x 3 - Sid James comes to mind with the above & Here's a little clue for the other & Though Never Ever Let GOOD OLD REALITY Get In The Way

Posted - 02.10.25 x 5 - I Bet It's A Right Little Monkey!



Posted - 03.10.25 x 6 - Private Eye Magazine – London „In The Back“ x 3 – (issue 1658 – Sept / Oct 2025)



Posted - 05.10.25 x 6 - PS: I pesonally found the above 2 to be exceptionally good – Really!
Posted – 06.10.25 
 Posted - 08.10.25 - "Play It Loudly And Proudly Folks!"

Posted – 09.10.25 x 5 – Oddly enough, this real old ‚blast from the past‘ quite mysteriously & unexpectedly turned up the other evening on German (non-commercial) Public Telly, (all 3 episodes, back to back, with original English option to-boot) – Fancy! I recall the series well, though had no idea (or interest) about the ins and outs of it all. This fairly recent rundown of events was quite entertaining though, I must say, and pretty well done too, I tally!

Posted - 10.10.25 x 2 - PS:That nice Mr Stephenson also built Germany's first-ever Choo Choo, (on the Kaiser's orders) namely, Der Adler (The Eagle) - "Tickets Please!" And needless to say, it went like an absolute, er, rocket, too of course - Fancy!
Also posted – 10.10.25 – „Now that’s what I really call a letter and a half“
Refer to above cartoon posted 01.10.25 - "I'm sure Mr Spock would whole-heartedly agree too"
  Posted – 11.10.25 x 3 – BREXIT Just Keeps On Giving And Giving And Giving, And It Ain't Really Even Got Started Yet - Hooray!

  Posted – 12.10.25 x 2 – So how bally contemporaneously profound is that then?

Posted - 13.10.25
Posted – 14.10.25 x 2
Posted - 15.10.25 x 2 - "Personally, I banned myself from mine - Hooray!" & Must Also Be True If It's On Here Then - Eh!

Also posted - 15.10.25 x 3 - "The above reminds me of 10cc's "I'm Not In Love" for some strange reason? Most probably 'just another silly phase I'm going through' - eh!
 Posted – 16.10.25 x 3 – I just happened to watch this fine little filum last evening, for the first time (that I can recall) and certainly never in German before – A lovely tribute to Diane Keaton methinks & Some really triffic pictures being exhibited in Sunny Old London at the mo too – "David Bailey! Who's She Then?" 
 PS: I’ve always been an avid Fan of Alan Alda too, so it was a real bonus (along with that Allen chap as well naturally) to see him in action again – „Radar! Did Hawkeye steal that Jeep?“ - „No Sir! It’s the one he came in“ – That one’s for Jack (No, not that one, the other one, please refer to Page Five, 2nd post from 12.10.24) „YAWN!“
 Posted - 17.10.25 x 2
 Posted – 19.10.25 – A Truly Brilliant 'Fit For Purpose' Concept PS: It’s pretty difficult to believe, that gifted kids (from all sections of today’s British society) now get the same chances and in the same numbers, as many once did pre-Brexit? PPS: Personally, I've been studying abroad in Europe constantly for the last, er, 45 years - Fancy! 

Posted – 20.10.25 x 3
Posted - 21.10.25 x 5 - "No Comment"

Posted - 22.10.25 x 3
 Posted – 23.10.25 - „To be “three sheets to the wind” is to be drunk. The sheet is the line that controls the sails on a ship. If the line is not secured, the sail flops in the wind, and the ship loses headway and control. If all three sails are loose, the ship is out of control.“ - HMS Blighty oddly comes to mind – „Cripes!“
Posted  - 24.10.25 x 3 - "Making Yet More Plans For Nigel"
 Also posted - 24.10.25 - Great Track - Nice & Loud Now

Please refer to above post from - 10.10.25
It could've been far more worserer, they might have ended up driftin right over Essex, or even, er, Benfleet -"Cripes!"
Posted – 25.10.25 x 6 – Late last evening, I just happened to come across this old classic on Bavarian Telly no less. I could also watch it in original English, which was quite an unexpected pleasure too, I must say - Stanley Holloway Talking All Posh PS: I found the above Agatha Christie paperback in my old Tardis Library, from way back last century (they’ve been redacted to comply with contemporary political correctness of course) - So I wonder why they changed the name then, adversely affect sales possibly?
Also posted - 25.10.25 - "I whole-heartedly 100 percent concur"

 
Posted – 26.10.25 x 4 - PS: Certain people of ill-repute, once nicknamed my Old Man the Flying Pig - Fancy!
Posted - 27.10.25 x 5
Posted – 28.10.25 – Sorry about the quality, "feel the width"
 (bad light today) it’s just about readable, if you’re really actually interested that is?  

Posted – 29.10.25 – „People get wet, when they think of it“ 

 „Cripes!“

Posted – 30.10.25 x 5
 
Posted – 31.10.25 x 4

 Posted - 03.11.25 x 5 - "I've Been There More Times Than I Care To Remember" PS: The above was first published in 'You Know Where' way back in August 2008, keeping well ahead of the incoming tide, as per usual - Fancy!
Posted - 04.11.25 x 4

 Posted  - 05.11.25 x 6 - "Now That's Entertainment" & They all know it makes perfect sense of course
Posted – 06.11.25  x 3  - "Lakes of frozen Real Ale urine oddly comes to mind?" - Catchy Little Number From Down Under (No! Not Aussie)

Posted - 07.11.25 x 3 - So Much To Be Done, So Much Money To Hand, And So Much Dithering
Posted – 08.11.25 - Those highly respected and renowned ‚International Entrepeneurs‘ [sic]  „Trotters Independent Traders“ of Peckham, mysteriously spring to mind here?

Posted - 09.11.25 x 3 - PS: Good point from Sunny Glasgee, I was wondering about that too? PPS: Re first post above, please also refer to Page 3, posted - 25.10.25

"When We Were In Europe!"

Posted – 10.11.25 – Please also refer to the first above post, 

from 27.08.25

Posted - 11.11.25 x 5 - "It's a Bic!" aka Del Boy’s famous Trivial Pursuit answer for a female swan – „I’ve said it again and I’ll say it before“

Posted - 12.11.25 x 2 - "Better late than never"
Posted - 14.11.25 x 3 - "Hooray For The Return Of The 
Red Triangle

 Posted – 15.11.25 x 4 - And So It Continues
Posted - 16.11.25 x 2 -  "16 Years Of Extreme RIGHT-WING Tory Scum Rubbish, All Well Forgotten About Already - Hooray For Freedom With Our Nige & Chums!" & "Never Mind Yer Limey Bastards" (Amusingly, lemons contain 5 times more Vitamin C than limes anyway, and the early, er, Royal Navy vessels, also had plenty of casks of 'long-lasting Vitamin C-rich Sauertkraut' on board as well . "Fancy!"
Posted  - 17.11.25 x 2 - As all dedicated Private Eye Readers will be well aware too of course - Fancy! Probably why it's still very much the United Kingdom's most popular 'Satire, News & Current-Affairs' fortnightly hand-held thingie as well, innit & With absolutely no thanks to ever-greedy Fatty Johnson & Co
Posted - 18.11.25 x 5 - PS: I loved 'The Great Escape'
Posted - 19.11.25 - "So how bloody true is that then?" 'BRILLIANT!'

Posted - 20.11.25
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Posted – 22.11.25 - Hot Air Indeed - Meanwhile, here in (relatively small, though very GREEN) Sunny EU Berlin, the City has just passed the planting of, er, 1 million New Trees (over the next 10 years) through The Senate – Fancy!
Posted - 23.11.25 x 2 - But will exactly the same thing happen again in a future pandemic? - Er, Yes! Very, Very, Likely. PS: My own Mother died in King George's, East London, on Fatty Johnson's so-called 'Freedom Day'. In an earlier letter to me, she described it as being like "24/7 Bedlam" (not the staff) but the crazy, mindlessly-selfish visitors aux various, she was in there for a totally different 'non-fatal' reason too + "Cripes!"
This is pretty sad news methinks. I fondly recall spending quite a lot of time at West Berlin’s British Council for various ocassions, in my early years here (including using their excellent library too of course). Later, also as a Coordinating Hub for an Open University course of modules in the early 1990‘s.
Posted - 24.11.25 x 2 - To add to the excellent letter above. I think I can also safely say that I too enjoyed a similarly happy (though somewhat privileged, compared to many others I knew) childhood. Mine was set in 1960‘s & 70‘s East London and Essex, an entirely different, though similar planet (Many thanks to both my parents for making it all '100 percent Unconditionally' possible too of course) – Fancy!
Posted - 25.11.25 x 4  - It Must Be TRUE If It's On Here Then - Eh!
Posted -  26.11.25 x 5 - "And The Times They Are A'Changin"
Posted - 28.11.25
 Posted -  29.11.25 x 2 - "And No, It's Not Brian Walker, Master Champion, You Silly Boy!"
Posted - 30.11.25 x 2 - "There narf bin some clever bastards" & "So No Surprises There Then!"
Posted - 01.12.25 x 3 - PS: Re the above, think about it "like I had to" it's really rather good, innit
Posted - 03.12.25 x 4 - It's best to eat a nice big, well hot, Ruby Murray before going in
Posted - 04.12.25
Posted - 05.12.25 - "It's Not Really AD 2025 Is It?"
Posted - 06.12.25
Posted - 07.12.25 - "Most Desperate Marketing Indeed!"
Posted - 08.12.25 - None Of Yer Old Shank's Ponies There Then!
Posted - 09.12.25 x 3 - "This Is The Age Of The Train" AGAIN -Hooray / YAWN!
Posted -  10.12.25 - All Far Far Simpler, And Far Far Fewer Numbers Involved (then legally-turn-backable) As A Cushty & Proud EU Member Of Course!
Posted - 12.12.25 x 4 - "Any Masons In The Family Son?" - "Yes Sir!" - "Right You're In Then, Vetting Successful"
Posted - 13.12.25 x 3
Also posted – 13.12.25 – Some excellent points made there I think (very everyday relevant to us all here in Sunny EU Berlin as well) – PS: Please also refer to above post from 19.11.25 
 
Posted – 14.12.25 x 2 – Very Interesting Little Filum – Watched for the first time last evening, almost believable, though I’m no fan of Trudie Styler I must say (and who really cares a monkey's toss anyway?) PS: It was also noted that although the word cunt only appeared the once, fuck and its derivitives aux-various, popped-up dozens and dozens of times. Most of the cast had their sweary moment/s, including the fairly young kids to-boot – Fancy! Oddly enough, Britain’s most belov’ed ex-First Lord of The Treasury aka Prime Minister [sic] Fatty Johnson and his ghastly Missus came firmly to mind? Smart money says that this little arty-noir picture is most definately on their home-viewing top-ten list „Cripes!“
Posted – 16.12.25 x 5
Posted - 17.12.25 x 5 - 40 percent cheaper as an EU Member of course - "Cripes!" & "Sometimes I Wish That I'd Gone To Cambridge!"- PS: I found the post just above to be particularly ‚well-inspired‘
Posted – 18.12.25: Fun Facts: Here in Sunny EU Germany DNA is known as, er, DNS no less, and their Billion is our (english-speaking world)Trillion, innit. I’m reminded of that Hubble telescope mirror fuck-up as well (which they later changed in space) they’d mixed up metric and imperial measurements, wunnit – All very easy peasy when yer know how of course.
Posted - 19.12.25 - "Well Worth A Jolly Old Earwig - As Per Usual - Hooray!"
Posted - 20.12.25 x 2
Posted - 21.12.25 x 3
Posted – 22.12.25 – "So Bye Bye Then Chris Rea, I’ve always liked this one - "On The Beach"– I Saw You Here Live In Sunny EU Berlin A Few Times Too – Very Loud Indeed, So You Were Captain!" - Fun Fact: You've always been Far Far Bigger here than you ever were in Blighty - Fancy!
Posted - 23.12.25 x 2
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Posted - 26.12.25 x 2 - "Well opined Sir! An excellent 'Letter' methinks"
Posted - 27.12.25 x 5
Posted - 28.12.25 - It's A Real No-Brainer - So I wonder if 'Third Country Britain' will ever do anything similar, and on a similar scale too then?
Posted - 29.12.25
Posted - 30.12.25 x 2 - Ah Well! 'Third Country Britain's' Not Very Attractive To Europeans These Days Anyway!
Posted - 31.12.25 - And Tomorrow We'll Be Looking Through The Swivel-Eyed Loony Window
Posted - 01.01.26 - Apologies for quality of above post - 'Bad Light Stopped Play' & please also refer to above cartoon posted 17.12.25
Posted  - 02.01.26 - "Cripes!"
 Posted – 03.01.26 – Much enjoyed watching this little local concert on arte last evening – The Grandfather of Punk, no less – "Oggy Eggy Iggy Oi Oi Oi"
Posted – 05.01.26 – A cracking little film / report (watched last evening) all about the Carribean Community in today's Sunny London, no less.- "Treble Goat Stews & Curries All Round, innit" -  It mainly dealt with the different cusines from Jamaica and Cuba, where they also grow their own vegetables too (they all happily live in the lively area's of Notting Hill, Camden and Little Venice) - Fancy! 

Posted - 07.01.26 x 3
Posted - 08.01.26 x 2
Posted - 09.01.26 x 3 - "Cold Medals"
Posted – 11.01.26 x 2 – A very interesting and unusual concert, much enjoyed last evening no less - arte never ceases to surprise This little classic also kept me up until very late too – I’ve always liked both of the main characters, namely Robin Williams and Walter Matthau and the tone of this filum is very very USA Today – Fancy! - "MAGA" „Make America Go Away“ as The Greenelanders say!
Posted – 12.01.26 x 2 – I recently re-watched this fascinating little filum about how to make an old-fashioned style house (using only 100% natural materials). You can either read the english subtitles, or turn the sound right off, and have your favourite music of the day, blaring out instead, innit. The black waistcoats the guys are wearing shows that they are all ‚properly time-served craftsmen‘ aux various. PS: As well as being far cheaper to build than a standard modern house, these straw & mud jobbies easily last as long as similar local gaffs too – Fancy!- "I'll Huff And I'll Puff" - PPS: Agatha Christie died exactly 50 years ago today too, as young Eve & I are well aware (please refer to above post from 12.01.25)

Posted - 13.01.26 
 Posted - 15.01.26 x 3 - "You Could Do Much Worse Than Listen To This For Half An Hour Or So"

Posted - 16.01.26 x 2 - PS: "A truly Brilliant Cartoon"
Posted - 17.01.26

 
Posted - 18.01.26 x 4 - "As the French say!"- A Sunday Copy Of This (Purchased at Berlin Zoo Station, no less) Used To Last Me All Bally Week!
Posted  - 19.01.26 - Must be some truth in it, if it's on here then - eh?
Posted – 21.01.26 – I felt drawn to send a letter in response to the above. It most probably wont get published, but Lord Gnome did send me a ‚thanks for writing‘ email reply – so at least it was read! (This here WeBlog is a 'Personal Chronical' afterall, innit)
Posted - 22.01.26 x 3 -Top Cover Version From Sunny Lyon
Posted - 23.01.26
Posted  - 24.01.26 x 4 - England & Wales Boast An Absurd 43 Different Police Farces PS: The Filth Have A Nasty Old Habit Of Victimizing Any People Who Actually  Dare To Criticise Them Of Course Jack! PPS: The above cartoon is really brilliant I tally "Out of this world Man!"
Posted – 26.01.26 x 3 
Posted - 28.01.26 x 4 - "Evenin All!"
Posted - 29.01.26 - "There Narf Bin Sum Lucky Wankers"
Posted – 30.01.26 - It must be Fake News Shurely? No one in their right mind would ever listen to Our Nige again – Would They?
Posted - 31.01.26 x 2
Posted  - 01.02.26 x 2 - Always Keep Up To Speed With 'Third Country Britain'
Posted - 02.02.26 
Posted -  03.02.26 x 2 - "Liqour Liqour Liqour" - "Luvverly Jubberly" - PS: Re above Cartoon, please also refer to above picture posted - 31.01.26 - "The Great Reverse Ferret" comes to mind
Posted – 05.02.26 x 4 – „Ah Yes! Essex! (County of the eternal / infernal, er, Mockney) somewhere near London I vaguely recall?“ PS: the above + 1, also brings a totally new meaning to the classical concept of ‚Swearing on the Bible‘ too of course – „Crikey!“  
Posted – 08.02.26 – „I’ve a good mind to write to the papers – it shouldn’t be allowed, innit!“
Posted - 09.02.26 - "Please Miss, I haven't Got A Pencil, Miss! Why Am I So Fucking Stupid?" & "Carry On Camping" - Hooray!
Posted - 10.02.26 - PS: I fondly recall that Grandad Trotter once worked in the kitchen at the 'Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital' (no Eyes though, that was Moorfields, where that nice Mr Assad of Syria once trained as a doctor with his English wife - Fancy!)
"Assad it again and Assad it before" "It was Sydney Potter"
Posted – 11.02.26 – No such internal problems in my day, all the coppers were bent, period.  
Posted – 12.02.26 x 5
Posted – 13.02.26 
Posted – 14.02.26 x 3 – Wow! Great to see her both sounding & looking really good again last night – Just last year from Sunny California, no less
Posted – 15.02.26 – "Go on! Actually learn something new for once, I dare you!"
Posted - 17.02.26 x 3 - PS: I’ve known quite a few people over the years who don’t want to be seen with Private Eye too. I think it’s a combination of illiteracy, plus fear of both the unknown and the ignorant, period.  
Posted – 18.02.26
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Posted - 21.02.26 x 3
Posted - 22.02.26 - So they can quickly 'Cover It All Up' again, and limit 'Possible Damage'  "Evenin All"
Posted - 23.02.26
Posted – 24.02.26 - Damned Good New Dokufilm On The Block - I watched this last evening for the very first time, covering not so sunny 1952 London Town, no less 
Posted - 25.02.26 x 5
Posted - 27.02.26 x 3 - It's a WIN WIN For EU Spain All The Way - Hooray! - PS: So who remembers when Fatty Johnson carelessly lost Gibraltar to Schengen one fine New Year's Moaning then? - "Cripes!" 
 Posted – 01.03.26 – As somebody quite lucky enough to be *gifted’ at a very young age, to be able to seriously enjoy & appreciate many different genres of music, I can honestly say, that this brilliantly talented guy was very much a part of that personal history – "Cheers Neil!"

Also posted - 01.03.26 x 3 - PS: The above refers to the cartoon posted 21.02.26 on the Front Page, and "Yes! I did also miss the bleedin obvious too"
Posted - 02.03.26 x 2

Posted - 03.03.26 - She’s so bleedin 'Poshe', she even makes Rees-Fogg & Fatty Johnson look like bits of scrag-end, innit. PS: My sincerest apologies to all the real scrag-end out there too of course
Posted - 04.03.26 x 3
Posted – 06.03.26 x 2
Posted – 07.03.26 x 3 – Just like Lord Beaverbrook, Axel Springer was also a well-known fan & chum of Cpl Carpetchewer’s, so The Torygraph really couldn’t be going to a better home. Max "H" Hastings will be simply over the moon too, I bet - "Cripes!" & I met him once, way back in 1981, lovely gentleman (perfect English)
Posted - 08.03.26 x 3 - And There's More (Just imagine the ever-caring UK Press, if he just happened to live in Sunny Milton Keynes or the even Sunnier Clacton on Mud) with Our Nige shouting out "Oi Nobby, coming down the boozer for a game of Arrows and a swift half my old mate?"
 Posted - 09.03.26 - I've Always Liked This Track - Pretty good coming from a sweaty sock too


Posted - 12.03.26 x 5 - "That'll Lern em, innit"
13.03.26 x 3
Posted - 15.03.26 x 2
Posted – 16.03.26 – Please refer to the above post and comments (third from three) posted 01.03.26  
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  Posted - 30.03.26 x 2 - So who remembers when Our Brenda received that nice Mr Assad at Buck House then? Trained at Moorfields, he spoke excellent English, as did his lovely English wife too of course. I wonder what happened to them then, such nice people to have in the back of one’s cab? + "End of The Line"

Posted - 01.04.26 x 2

 
Posted - 05.04.26 x 2
Posted – 06.04.26 x 4 – Notolenghi is an amusing [sic] play on Yotam Ottolenghi PS: I had to look it up myself too & Just The Ticket

Posted - 07.04.26 x 2 -  "My Kinda Boozer!"
 Posted - 08.04.26 - Never Mind, Help Is Swiftly On It's Way - "Hooray!" PS: Please see above cartoon from 06.04.26 "Cripes!"
Posted - 09.04.26 x 3 - They Look Like Pretty Good Reading To Me

Posted – 10.04.26 – „So no big surprises there then!“

Posted – 11.04.26 x 2 „Now We’ve Left Europe“ PS: Some of those bloody awful conditions mentioned above, could also quite well apply to HM Forces ‚Quarters‘ in the UK. Forces familes have far fewer rights of complaint, these issues have been well reported now for some years & The Real Current Social Media Story
 Posted - 12.04.26 - Well Dodgy Dealers, Er, Dealin Well Dodgily

Posted - 13.04.26

Posted – 14.04.26   
Posted - 15.04.26 - "Git Them Knees Up Nice An Proper Now"

Posted - 16.04.26 x 2
Posted - 17.04.26 x 6 - Looks Like Good Fun + Nice And Loud Now

Posted - 18.04.26 x 3
Posted - 19.04.26 - On a scale of  1 > 10, I'd give him a 2 for such Desperate Marketing SPIN
Posted - 20.04.26
Posted – 21.04.26 – Boy did they hit the nail right on the head here, way back in 1976, no less. I watched it again last night, such uncanny foresight, really
Posted - 22.04.26 x 2
 Posted - 23.04.26 x 2 -Top Track, period

























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