Sunday is here again. It's a funny day is Sunday, the day before you go back to work, the day you get to eat a big roast dinner if your lucky and the last day to chill out and read the papers.
It used to be a real day of rest a few years ago when shops where not open and you only had three channels on the telly to watch, was there rubbish on the telly then? I am not sure. The Sunday afternoon film used to keep us amused it would always be cowboys and Indians or a war film with action that did not include 3kilos of fresh liver being splattered across the screen.
Violence on films was left more for the viewer to interpret using your own imagination. These days it seem your not allowed to use your imagination it has to be as graphic as possible so you can sit there and just stare brain dead at the screen and then, as the young of today seem to do, go out at night get tanked up on cheap cider and take on the world and act out what they have seen without a second thought to what they are doing or the consequences of it, l wonder how they would feel if it where their mother, father, sibling taken on by a gang and left for dead.
Trouble is l fear they have no feelings and it would just go on without a second thought.
God l must be feeling a bit down on the young today, is it because they always get home from a night out just as l have fallen asleep and wake me up by putting the light on. Then they always seem to bring a whole herd of elephants up the stairs to bed with them what was the point of those ballet lessons when now they are so heavy footed the house shakes when they walk. Then the next morning you say something …..like…did you have a good night? and you just get a grunt directed in your direction ‘ sorry didn’t quite catch that’ ….’ohhhh your always checking up on me’…….here we go another great day with the kids…….
Insight into the world of Spud, a fifty something who tries to get on with life but thinks held back by wife and five kids. He needs to get a grip of the real world.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Life has changed a bit
Life has changed a bit...I no longer have a wife holding me back the children are getting older and l find myself missing those days when they were toddlers. They used to make me laugh with their funny ways and sayings they would come out with.
Now as they are getting older making their own way in the world taking desistions that will affect their lives and the jobs they decide to undertake. Occasionally they will ask for advice and l will readily give it from the wealth of experience l have gained over the years, some of it useless now like how to change a typewriter ribbon and adjusts the points on a cars ignition. The best time to see your bank manager for a car loan which of course was after lunch on a Friday when he had been out to the pub and indulged in a few light and bitters. All things move on of course it’s just that time seems to be moving on quicker and quicker time flies children are no longer children but young adults and summers seem shorter not just because of the ash cloud fallout from next doors barbecue and now Iceland is getting its own back after the financial collapse of its banks.
Where will it all end I wonder with a sense of concern of the pending future ahead ………..
Now as they are getting older making their own way in the world taking desistions that will affect their lives and the jobs they decide to undertake. Occasionally they will ask for advice and l will readily give it from the wealth of experience l have gained over the years, some of it useless now like how to change a typewriter ribbon and adjusts the points on a cars ignition. The best time to see your bank manager for a car loan which of course was after lunch on a Friday when he had been out to the pub and indulged in a few light and bitters. All things move on of course it’s just that time seems to be moving on quicker and quicker time flies children are no longer children but young adults and summers seem shorter not just because of the ash cloud fallout from next doors barbecue and now Iceland is getting its own back after the financial collapse of its banks.
Where will it all end I wonder with a sense of concern of the pending future ahead ………..
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Start this up again and.......
I have to try and remember how to Iog on to this thing......well all is fine whilst l can google it and up it pops at the top of the list....but....when that does not happen all hell sets lose in my haggled brain. I can not think of the blog site, is it because of the day l have had at work that makes my brain turn into mushy grey useless mess, is it all the things I am trying to remember to do?
I am not sure it could just be that getting older seems to flick your brain into a whirl of action that cannot concentrate on one subject as it turns and somersaults inside your head and all sorts of daft things pop into your mind and worse still spout from your mouth which leaves people listening to you wide mouthed in a amazed fashion as though some green man has just fallen out of the sky and landed at their feet. This strange green alien looking at them speaking in some strange tounge.......perhaps a glass of wine and a early night are needed...before morning and the long trip back to my planet where only I know what colour the sky is..!!
I am not sure it could just be that getting older seems to flick your brain into a whirl of action that cannot concentrate on one subject as it turns and somersaults inside your head and all sorts of daft things pop into your mind and worse still spout from your mouth which leaves people listening to you wide mouthed in a amazed fashion as though some green man has just fallen out of the sky and landed at their feet. This strange green alien looking at them speaking in some strange tounge.......perhaps a glass of wine and a early night are needed...before morning and the long trip back to my planet where only I know what colour the sky is..!!
Take me to your muddled brain
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Thoughts on pay
For a lot of people, the weekly pay packet is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
Thoughts on getting old
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.
There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Some more thoughts from Dave Allen
I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realise it's me.
Dave Allen Quote:
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A clock.
Dave Allen Quote:
I've stopped smoking... I think the cost was a lot of it, and not being able to breathe. I first gave up smoking when I was eight.
Dave Allen Quote:
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Dave Allen Quote:
I'm an Atheist...thank God.
Dave Allen Quote:
Dave Allen Quote:
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A clock.
Dave Allen Quote:
I've stopped smoking... I think the cost was a lot of it, and not being able to breathe. I first gave up smoking when I was eight.
Dave Allen Quote:
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Dave Allen Quote:
I'm an Atheist...thank God.
Dave Allen Quote:
Some thoughts on drinking
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.Frank Sinatra
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.William Butler
Yeats
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.Ernest Hemingway
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.Dean Martin
Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.Anonymous
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.G.K. Chesterton
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.Catherine Zandonella
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Bierce
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.Anonymous
Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure, hooking up with fat hairy girls.Ross Levy
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.Anonymous
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.David Daye
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.William Butler
Yeats
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.Ernest Hemingway
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.Dean Martin
Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.Anonymous
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.G.K. Chesterton
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.Catherine Zandonella
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Bierce
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.Anonymous
Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure, hooking up with fat hairy girls.Ross Levy
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.Anonymous
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.David Daye
Saturday, March 25, 2006
College Graduates
College Grads
A graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
A graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
A graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much it cost?"
A graduate with a liberal arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
A graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
A graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
A graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much it cost?"
A graduate with a liberal arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
Crusader strikes again
"This is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash about civilisation"
Tony Blair defends the war in Iraq.
Tony Blair defends the war in Iraq.
Looking towards the future.......or not
I hope I am wrong but the future looks dull miserable.........and Brown
Is this a load of balls.........
Men may be carrying in their testicles an almost limitless supply of spare part cells for treating disease and injury, research has suggested.(Mark Henderson writes.)
Scientists in Germany have successfully isolated a new kind of stem cell from the testes of adult mice that can grow into a full range of tissue types,offering a possible alternative to embryonic stem (ES) cells for medical therapies.
If the findings are repeated in people, it could become possible to harvest the cells from testicles and grow them into specialised tissues for treating conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and paralysis.
As the cells would come from the patient's own body, they would be a precise genetic match and would not risk rejection. This source of tissue would thus remove any need for therapeutic cloning.
The study will be published next week in Nature.
Scientists in Germany have successfully isolated a new kind of stem cell from the testes of adult mice that can grow into a full range of tissue types,offering a possible alternative to embryonic stem (ES) cells for medical therapies.
If the findings are repeated in people, it could become possible to harvest the cells from testicles and grow them into specialised tissues for treating conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and paralysis.
As the cells would come from the patient's own body, they would be a precise genetic match and would not risk rejection. This source of tissue would thus remove any need for therapeutic cloning.
The study will be published next week in Nature.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Am I going mad ..I hope so
How do you make yourself attractive to the opposite sex? Easy. Get yourself a mental illness. That seems to be the suggestion of Jeremy Taylor, a former mental healthcare trust Chief executive. Writing in Health Service Journal (March 2) Taylor explains how mental illness "has, at last, become sexy"."The press tells us that people with mental illness tend to be more successful in attracting sexual partners.This has to be a breakthrough in understanding future demographics.With average fecundity, the mentally ill will produce more offspring than 'the sane'."
Could be the reason I have five little Spuds.
Could be the reason I have five little Spuds.
Longer life means more creams
Stanford, California:
The average life expectancy for people living in most industrial nations could reach 100 within 25 years, according to a Stanford University researcher. Sripad Tuljapurkar cited advances in anti-ageing technology and medicine.(AP)
Mrs Spud is on her way to Superdrug for her anti-ageing technology right at this moment..
The average life expectancy for people living in most industrial nations could reach 100 within 25 years, according to a Stanford University researcher. Sripad Tuljapurkar cited advances in anti-ageing technology and medicine.(AP)
Mrs Spud is on her way to Superdrug for her anti-ageing technology right at this moment..
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