From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Lifting the curtain, just a little

November 30, 2009

Under the circumstances, I suppose it’s nearly mandatory that I start off by saying, “Evening, possums!”
I was as disappointed as anyone when I read that Anna had decided to give up blogging. For while Anna and I did not always see eye to eye on everything, I have always admired the thought and cool reason [...]

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Under New Management.

November 30, 2009

Well, new management folks! There will be an ‘alternative Ms Raccoon’ for the next couple of months – someone has very kindly volunteered to fill my shoes whilst I concentrate on getting better.
I’ve spent the week-end letting out all my dresses – fair to say, they are not exactly, ahem, the same shape and size [...]

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The Final Curtain.

November 27, 2009

Those of you who know me well, will be aware that I have not been well in recent months.
Thanks to the excellent French medical service, which is second to none, I have undergone a battery of tests in record time, no waiting, no messing, outstanding courtesy and efficiency at every turn. Hopefully they have now [...]

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Google and the Land of the Free.

November 26, 2009

Somewhere between my greasy gang land garagiste era and before sliding into the ice age of the Lord Chancellor’s Office, I ran a small hotel in Suffolk on the outskirts of a vast American air base. I had a sign on the wall – ‘two peoples separated by a common language’ – to remind the [...]

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Equality begins in the home.

November 25, 2009

That shrill group of legal harpies, Harriet Harman, Maria Eagle and Vera Baird, otherwise known as the Government ‘Equalities’ Office, have chosen today to launch a new offensive in the battle to demonise men.
In the curious world that they inhabit, violence in the home is only worthy of being prevented when it is perpetuated by [...]

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A Challenge to the Politicians.

November 24, 2009

I don’t doubt that X-Factor is important to a lot of people, 12 million of them on average. I don’t doubt that a lot of those people are potential voters.
I am curious as to how or why the PR strategists at 10 Downing Street manage to connect those two pieces of information into a strategy [...]

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Coming to a Street Near You!

November 23, 2009

Undeterred by the egg splattered faces of scientists struggling to extricate themselves from a rising crescendo of claims that the whole notion of global warming and climate change is fraudulent, and oblivious to the excruciating timing of the co-incidental flooding of Cockermouth and large areas of Cumbria, the Government has chosen today to launch their [...]

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