Putting a Spanner in the Works…

June 9, 2013 77 comments
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Back some 20 years ago, when the sun still shone in summer time, and young army lads only got beheaded in foreign places so there was no need for a focus group to tell the Prime Minister what to Tweet on the subject, a group of gay young middle aged blades got up one morning [...]

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By Popular Request…the Man Cave!

June 8, 2013 21 comments

No, Ms Raccoon has no intention of shutting up – though that would be an equally popular request these days…. But several people have asked if I could creep into the man cave and take some pictures – this morning I was up before Mr G and managed to do just that. Here, in all [...]

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Everybody Here but those Turkeys

June 7, 2013 4 comments
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It was late morning in the Porcument, and Peter the Pig was in mid-nap, dreaming of better times. Was it really only a few years ago the heroic Sir Stuart Bell had spent days and weeks touring the TV studios, explaining to the silly people why it was just not good enough that Pigs should only [...]

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D Day Reflection

June 6, 2013 18 comments

69 years ago today, at about the young 9.00 am on June 6th 1944, the young man with a “Tommy” gun on the right of the photograph above was feeling sea sick and very scared.  He could see the flash of gunfire on the beach ahead, and there were shells landing among and striking some [...]

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Graham Ovenden and Blind Justice.

June 5, 2013 106 comments

What do you know of the trial of the artist Graham Ovenden? That he taped pubescent girl’s eyes shut with sticky black tape, sexually abused them, distributed photographs of them, was found guilty – and now, shock, horror, has been allowed to walk free – apparently no longer a danger to little girls? If you [...]

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Pop Goes the (Welsh) Weasel!

June 4, 2013 9 comments
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There is a lot you can do with £1.6 million pounds. Personally I’d go for the next ten years resident in The Mamounia, but trying to be civic minded, and bearing in mind that the £1.6 million I am talking about is the result of taxing British families on the fruits of their labour, I’d [...]

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Maroc n’ Roll!

June 3, 2013 16 comments

Wow! Ms Raccoon has landed back on earth as inhabited by mere mortals – with a sickening thud. Mr G’s days of popping her into a camper van, parking it on some remote Portuguese hilltop and calling that a holiday are over. I have seen – and experienced – how the ‘other half’ live, and [...]

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