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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 PostA 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 colllection 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 SakeHooray! + „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 backWell 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!“

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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
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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 Guitarhttps://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-backhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_C4PDSfQJAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11qjmvTdJ8 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FBDCmibOM4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxtduqQrglY & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6AjiuNPBd8https://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-peopleErasmus 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
Also posted - 10.04.25
Posted – 11.04.25 x 3 – Above from Private Eye Magazine London (issue 1646 April 2025)

















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