Category: Blog

  • Tar Wars: A False Hope

    Tar Wars: A False Hope

    “I think I’ll have apple and pear. No, make that strawberry and banana. No, I know, spearmint and liquorice.” No, I am not waiting for someone to order the latest cocktail, nor am I behind someone mixing their ice cream flavours, neither am I stuck fuming while some kids decide on their sugar confection, although […]

  • The Post With No Name!

    The Post With No Name!

    Hello Dear Reader, it’s been a while. It has been one of those nights. I actually went to bed late, 1am, and was still awake at 2 am when believe it or not someone rang my buzzer. It was only a couple of quick buzzes and it was not repeated so I didn’t answer. The […]

  • Red the Dead

    Red the Dead

    Thirty years of the Premier League and officially the worst season for the red half of Manchester. It made me wonder about a comparison of the first PL league team that won the inaugural season and the bunch of misfits we have now. Schmeichel Parker Bruce Pallister Irwin Ince Sharpe Giggs McClair Hughes Cantona This […]

  • Not Quite Ian Rankings!

    Not Quite Ian Rankings!

    So here I am just back from the hospital, sitting here trying to get comfortable with a back sore with needle jabs. It is probably the fifth procedure I have had on my back in say 7 years with varying success but no permanency. Back pain seems to be an ever present corollary to my […]