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  • My Life and Times

    I was born in 1939 BC.
    That’s ‘Before Computers’.

    Luckily I survived the following events in my life, such as

    World War II, The London Blitz, Rationing, and worst of all… Archbishop Temple’s School.

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    During the mid 1950s I was enjoying Rock ‘n’ Roll and being a first generation teenager, when suddenly, just like Elvis, I found myself in uniform during ‘The Cold War’…and then

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    I became ‘a family’. Which meant that I sort of missed the ‘swinging sixties’, but still managed to look a complete prat in the 70s, just like everyone else.

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    During the ‘Thatcher Years’ I lost my hair and a lot of people lost a good deal more. My career fluctuated to say the least as I was demoted, promoted, fired and hired a number of times, but still I managed to stagger on into a welcome retirement and to celebrate 60 years of happy marriage.

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Archive for September, 2021

“equal partners” ?

Posted by Big John on September 16, 2021

Yesterday was ‘The Ginger Whinger of Windsor’s 37th birthday, and I was going to send him a nice ‘Woke’ birthday card, but I forgot, as I was on my way to join all those other attention seekers who were blocking the M25 motorway and chatting with those nice friendly police officers, when I got caught up in all the traffic chaos.

However, I was thrilled today when I came across the latest issue of “Time” and saw those two plastic dolls which almost look as lifelike as the real “Megs and Haz”: although I would have preferred to see Harry in his “Action Man” army outfit, or one of his many uniforms with the medals given to him by his (?) ‘grandma’.

Now there’s a surprise ! .. I see that Megs is wearing …

… those the trousers.

Posted in humour, rant | 1 Comment »

“Hi!” .. What happened to “Hello” ?

Posted by Big John on September 6, 2021

Although versions of this quotation have been attributed to others, it was Winston Churchill who made it popular when he said … “Americans and British are one people separated by a common language.”

However, recently there seems to have been an influx of “Americanisms” which seem to have been accepted, not just by the British general public, but also by those who should know better, such as in the worlds of ‘journalism’ and ‘creative literature’.

To be honest I’m not too bothered if a few fresh phrases and words have sneaked (NOT snuck !) into our vocabulary, apart from the likes of “Like!” which now seems to be repeated before almost every word that is uttered by so many young people.

Just before I stop my little rant, I have a couple of questions …

“Back in the day” … What ‘day’ ? .. and what was wrong with “In the past” ? .. and ..

“Going forward” … To where ? … Could it be somewhere “In the future” ?

That’s it, folks, so ….

…. “Have a nice day” !

Posted in humour, rant | 4 Comments »

 
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