Certainly Not A 10.

Gone Gone Gone.

The first one to go was R, husband of her for many, many years and not long into retirement. He was the kind of guy you heard a bit about but saw nothing of. I can’t say I had a problem with that but if I had ever been introduced to him I would have […]

On Coffee.

“Smashing”.

It was a little while ago that Sir Kier Starmer stood up and promised to “smash the gangs”. It was a moment of political stupidity right up there with Theresa May walking on stage to Dancing Queen whilst appearing to be on some huge pharmaceutical rush, or Neil Kinnock falling into the sea with his […]

Suffolks Sake.

Just like poor, lovely George Michael, we’ve all found ourselves in an unfortunate toilet situation at some point. Whether it be running out of paper at a crucial moment, accidentally splashing tap water on your trousers, pissing on your own shoes or pebble-dashing the walls, I’m here to tell you that bad things can happen […]

#555.

A bit of a new start. Or a bit of an old ending. Or maybe neither. Rambling and incoherent, like Proust or Biden. A refresher and a reflection. Something of something and nothing at all, as so many things in life. To put it bluntly, it’s a bit shit, but I don’t care because it’s […]

The Holiday 101.

Because we’ve all been there. Or somewhere. May contain mistakes. G B Burton. 21.07.2025

Come Together.

Hundreds of years ago, and only if you had the urge and power to make it so, it would take quite a lot of time and planning to gather even a modest rooms worth of arseholes together. Back then the world was, somehow, both a bigger and smaller place (although, more accurately and to fly […]

The Perils Of Self Improvement.

It’s very difficult to tell how healthy one really is, on a day to day basis. Through dogged repetition and to blow away the Saturday morning cobwebs from the Friday night before I have chipped away at my Park Run result to the extent that I have finally broken the 24 minute barrier, and for […]

V.E.Lucky.

By the time Hitler got round to his big day in the bunker it was pretty much all over with regards to his grand plans for a thousand year Reich. By late April 1945 he had very likely narrowed down his ambitions slightly, but even then another 988 years living in a bunker with flickering […]