Northerners

1425 days ago

Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel: Life imitates art, my cats prove they are true Northerners part 5

So the Mrs thought about getting the cats a basket but I insisted that that was for soft Southerners and that our Northern cats, the scousers Quincey and Sian, needed and wanted only a cardboard box each as they said, in true Monty Python fashion: “when we were young we were poor but we were happy”. So she took away a cardboard box.

1427 days ago

Photo article - life imitates art, my Northern cats part 4

So the Mrs thought about getting the cats a basket but I insisted that that was for soft Southerners and that our Northern cats, the scousers Quincey and Sian, needed and wanted only a cardboard box each as they said “when we were young we were poor but we were happy”. So she took away a cardboard box.

1434 days ago

Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel: Cat in a box

The Mrs thinks that when boxes are emptied of Christmas presents, they should be thrown away or just plausibly used for lighting the woodburning stove. Not that she has done that once. But the cats and I know what boxes are really for.

2736 days ago

The Graph that shouts: Wales & Northern Ireland your time is up - bugger off & take Scotland with you

The spendfest demanded by the people of Wales, Ulster, Scotland and the North of England is paid for by the hard working folks of London and the South East. That might sound like a provocative and unpleasant jibe at the expense of idle celts and workshy Northerners as they roam the welfare safaris. But it just happens to be a statement of fact as you can see below.

4014 days ago

Co-Op Boss Flowers says that HE is the Victim – how utterly predictable

The shamed ex Co-Op chairman, ex Labour party councillor and ex-Methodist Minister Paul Flowers reckons that in this whole great story the real victim is …HIM. How utterly predictable in a society which celebrates rights without responsibility. 

Flowers has a right to run his bank into the ground, he has a right to have gay porn on his Council owned PC, he has a right to buy illegal drugs, he has a right to take those drugs and bugger rent boys on hotel rooms being paid for by the Co-Op, he has a right to use rent boys (itself an exploitative relationship by definition) and he had a right to fiddle his expenses from his last employer.

But he has no responsibility to do minor things like not break the law, exploit vulnerable young men or do his frigging job properly. That is because