Category Archives: Random Crap

Things that don’t really fit anywhere else, I guess

My German Pen Friend

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Carps

Siegen. Twinned with… HELL Note: all you are about to read is true. I swear it on the remaining follicles of my head. My local hamlet Morley is twinned with Siegen in Germany. That means that every year, a few … Continue reading →

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Of Playgrounds and Spending Cuts

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Carps

Your local playground, tomorrow The Coalition of the Gritted Teeth have announced that funding for loads of new playgrounds has been withdrawn – and up to 1300 new and redesigned playgrounds now won’t go ahead. Cue howls of anguish: Parent … Continue reading →

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An Unrealised Dream

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Carps

I’ve got a raft of unfinished ideas – from a social networking site based on pies to the best ever idea for a console football game and a musical called The Cheesemonger’s Daughter. But this is perhaps the grandest of … Continue reading →

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The Obesity Paradox

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Carps

[Commercial disclaimer: I am fat] Contrary to popular belief, fat people can even ride motorbikes Aren’t fat people awful? I mean they take up all that space and sweat so damn much. If the law says we can’t snuff out … Continue reading →

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England lost the World Cup at Agincourt

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Carps

“Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit. To his full height. On, on, you noblest English. Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!”* Agincourt is imprinted on the English psyche, whether … Continue reading →

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Angry Canadian

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Carps

Before we had kids, the good lady Wife and myself decided to take advantage of our then relative affluence by doing a smidgin of globetrotting. We went to see Pompeii… New York… Canada and Cleethorpes. Canada was the politest place … Continue reading →

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