I don’t want to know that the Tories are back in power, yes it is good for comedy, art and music (especially punk and folk) but for the rest of us, who don’t earn several million pounds a year, it is really bad news. In order to counter act this slight set back in my life I will be approaching the following few years thus,
The only harm will be a slightly soar back and some sand in the ears, although I might get shafted and not know who it was, at least you lot will see them coming...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Wednesday, April 28, 2010,
Oh dear, poor Gordon Brown. I know that me feeling sorry for
him is probably not what he wants but that’s how it is.
He did something
stupid but we have all done it. We have all met someone, whether in a pub or at
work, who, shortly after they’ve gone, we’ve turned to a friend and said “What
a twat!”
The difference here
is that he had a live microphone on his lapel; still it could have been worse,
Posted by Martyn Norris on Sunday, April 11, 2010,
There really is only one story that I want to talk about
this week. It is one of the most talked about and life changing events of the
week (well in our house anyway). It could alter the way we live our lives for
years to come. If we do not act now, history will judge us to have failed.
As of July a Scrabble
rule change will mean
that you are allowed to use proper nouns! You will be able to put company names
and the names of ce...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Tuesday, March 16, 2010,
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I would like to look at 2 stories from recent weeks to
illustrate, to a certain degree, how our press works. 1 of them is how a good
PR person can guide a story and the other is a back-firing political story.
Let’s start with the
political storm in a political tea cup first. A couple of week ago the press,
particularly the anti-Labour side, were filled with stories about Gordon Brown
being a bull...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Saturday, March 13, 2010,
He was 10 when it happened! Did we ever ask why it happened or did we just charge a 10 year old with murder and then, when encouraged by the media to light the torches and dust off our pitch forks, forget how old he was? Yes, he is now 27 but this is not the same person that killed a child 17 years ago. Are you, screaming idiots, the same person that you were when you were 10? I’m not, well I still like Dr who and nature documentaries, but apart from that I’ve changed quite a bit and I as...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Sunday, February 28, 2010,
I'm sorry, have I fallen
asleep and woken up in the 1980's? (Although Homeopaths think it’s the 1880’s
and Prince Charles,
the 1780’s). Am I in Life on Mars? (or whatever the 80’s sequel was called)
Monday night/Tuesday morning a car bomb
exploded in Newry,
Northern Ireland. Fortunately no one was hurt despite the fact that
it went off whilst the area was being cleared.
There has been a recent upsurge in terrorist
attac...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Thursday, January 14, 2010,
If you were
watching the Television on Saturday night and managed to drag yourself away from
“So You Think You Can Dance” or “Take Me Out” you might have been watching
BBC2. If you were you would have seen a program about the election campaign of
who is now President but was then Senator Obama. It’s called “By The People”
and it may still be on the Iplayer.
Posted by Martyn Norris on Wednesday, January 6, 2010,
Well, it’s been a great week for Gordon Brown and Labour so far. He had a great PMQ’s and David Cameron seemed not to know or understand what his party’s policy was what they wanted the tax situation of Married people to be or if it was indeed a policy or an aspiration. A good week, indeed. All was well and good and nothing bad happened at all. Nothing happened at all. Yes, yes I do have sand in my ears, why do you ask? What’s that you say, pretty much the least popular Health Ministe... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Sunday, November 29, 2009,
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I
want to begin with a bird feeder update. As you know, because you read this
nonsense every week and I thank you for that, I have a birdfeeder and it was
being ignored by my local feathered friends and I was wondering how long I
should wait before being offended by the tiny little feathery, ungrateful gits.
Well I no longer have to worry about this most
modern of dilemmas as I have seen one bird on my new bi...
Posted by Martyn Norris on Sunday, November 15, 2009,
I love this weather. Seas are rough and trees
are blown on to railway lines meaning that I can't get to work for a shift that
is not during my usual contracted hours but felt pressured into changing
because some else, who my work clearly think is more important than me, if they
didn't they wouldn't have asked me to change my contracted shift, for someone
who is not contracted, could work. I'm not even sure that makes sense. Ah we...
“It's a hectare of badger mayhem!”
So, embarrassing incident of the week then. It isn't an award, I just thought I'd start with it. We pulled into Fleet Service station on the M3 on Saturday morning in order to avail ourselves of the facilities. As I wondered into the Men's I noticed that I had dry lips and decided, sub-consciously obviously, to lick my lips. As I did so I made eye contact with some bloke with his winky out, having a wee. He looks up from his task to see a skinny bloke... Continue reading ...
