The View from the Hill on Tuesday 29th June
Sorry to break the news to you this way but...dear burglars, you are too late now, having a new alarm fitted today.
That's probably tempting fate but as I don't believe in fate I'm not sure how tempting it will find my comments.
As I move towards the terminal stop on this year long writing project, I have been reviewing how my blogs have changed over that period, from some serious posts via absolute drivel. I suppose it records many things including my mood during the past twelve months. I think it's clear to see that I am a combination of a comedy genius and a miserable old bastard.
There have been days (like today) when knowing what to write about has been difficult, and there have been other days when the words have flowed out of me like brown steaming poo out of a cow. I have peddled my rubbish around the globe with readers in the USA, France, India, Australia, China, Iran and places in the UK as different as the Houses of Parliament and Skegness.
For all time, my ramblings will be accessible via the internet, it will become an historical document and who knows if in some future time, aliens might find it and start a whole new society based around the teachings of Drew - fascinating.
Have you tried googling yourself - I bet you have, but if not you should have a go because you will be shocked at what might pop up. For example, I apparently run a second hand car dealership in Enniskillen. The whole Google results page is devoted to the Irish Drew Baxter, with just one entry about a life without faith right in the middle and then two pictures of me at the bottom of the page - I am now famous enough to make the first page on Google!
Better go and make the house a little more tidy for the alarm man - although when he walks in and sees who he is working for - he will be alarmed, and what stories to tell his grandchildren. "I fitted the alarm for Drew Baxter - no not the one from Enniskillen"!
Do you know what they use to make French bread - 8 - when the wind comes right behind the rain...
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for
Alexander Smith
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Monday, 28 June 2010
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
The View from the Hill on Wednesday 23rd June
Happy Anniversary to Mrs B and myself - 26 years of married life and she still can't get me to do the ironing.
Her expectations have lessened and she doesn't even ask me to iron the handkerchiefs anymore - and I was pretty good at ironing square things like hankies and tea towels.
The budget went off quite well I thought, Mrs B gets a pay freeze and we will pay more in VAT in the new year but the increase in the personal allowance will off-set that a little. I'm quite happy to join George Osbourne in this crusade to reduce the deficit and to crush the disabled and the poor, it can only mean one thing, less of them will be able to shop in Tesco freeing up valuable space for the middle class shoppers slumming it there, as they can't afford Waitrose anymore.
But seriously, people will have to think about budgeting and perhaps cut down on the drugs and alcohol and cigarettes and buy their children a vegetable instead.
But seriously, seriously, we will all have to tighten our belts and make do and mend - it's that blitz spirit that the English are so well known for - when we are down, the Churchillian aspect of our nature surfaces and as the Frog Chorus put it so well, we all stand together! Oh Yes!
This is how we will respond, this is what we will do, England expects...to be on the plane home at about 6pm tonight.
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England expects that every man will do his duty
Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Happy Anniversary to Mrs B and myself - 26 years of married life and she still can't get me to do the ironing.
Her expectations have lessened and she doesn't even ask me to iron the handkerchiefs anymore - and I was pretty good at ironing square things like hankies and tea towels.
The budget went off quite well I thought, Mrs B gets a pay freeze and we will pay more in VAT in the new year but the increase in the personal allowance will off-set that a little. I'm quite happy to join George Osbourne in this crusade to reduce the deficit and to crush the disabled and the poor, it can only mean one thing, less of them will be able to shop in Tesco freeing up valuable space for the middle class shoppers slumming it there, as they can't afford Waitrose anymore.
But seriously, people will have to think about budgeting and perhaps cut down on the drugs and alcohol and cigarettes and buy their children a vegetable instead.
But seriously, seriously, we will all have to tighten our belts and make do and mend - it's that blitz spirit that the English are so well known for - when we are down, the Churchillian aspect of our nature surfaces and as the Frog Chorus put it so well, we all stand together! Oh Yes!
This is how we will respond, this is what we will do, England expects...to be on the plane home at about 6pm tonight.
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England expects that every man will do his duty
Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
The View from the Hill on Tuesday 22nd June
Budget, budget, budget....
Football, football, football...
Budget, budget, budget....
Football, football, football...
Budget, BP, budget...
Football, Football, Christine Bleakley...
BP, budget, budget
Football, foxes, football...
Budget, budget, and now the news where you are....
Hello I'm Anne Davies and this is Dominic Heale and here is the news for the East Midlands...first a report about how the owner of a BP garage in Leicester asked Christine Bleakley about how footballers will cope with the cuts made during the budget.
(SCREAM).
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
DH Lawrence
Budget, budget, budget....
Football, football, football...
Budget, budget, budget....
Football, football, football...
Budget, BP, budget...
Football, Football, Christine Bleakley...
BP, budget, budget
Football, foxes, football...
Budget, budget, and now the news where you are....
Hello I'm Anne Davies and this is Dominic Heale and here is the news for the East Midlands...first a report about how the owner of a BP garage in Leicester asked Christine Bleakley about how footballers will cope with the cuts made during the budget.
(SCREAM).
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
DH Lawrence
Monday, 21 June 2010
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