I don't understand the FBI's ten most wanted list. Why don't they just keep them when they come in for the photo?
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
FBI wanted list.
Car Theft.
Apparently car theft is at a twenty year low. It seems to be harder to steal one when there's a family living in it.
Keeping a redhead.
A guy asked me how I managed to keep a redhead much younger than me so I showed him the tablets I put in her Horlicks. It's not rocket science chaps!
Monday, 8 September 2014
Redheaded Vampire.
I saw a fleeting shadow
I heard a victim shout
I thought it was a vampire because the lights were out.
I felt a breath upon my neck
My hackles began to rise
Damn that sneaky redhead, she took me by surprise.
I heard a victim shout
I thought it was a vampire because the lights were out.
I felt a breath upon my neck
My hackles began to rise
Damn that sneaky redhead, she took me by surprise.
Sunday, 7 September 2014
Scotland
Sigmund Freud.
I've been trying to follow Sigmund Freud on twitter but he keeps turning me down. This is either reverse psychology or he prefers Junger followers.
Red Arrows
Booked the Red Arrows for the redhead's birthday but they didn't show up, so I threw a handfull of darts across the garden and made a whooshing noise. Now I'm being prosecuted for cruelty towards next door's dog.
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Saturday, 6 September 2014
The redhead's birthday.
The redhead asked me if I had anything in mind for today as
it is her birthday. I mentioned a spa day with a sauna, visit to
a nail bar, trip to the hairdressers and a nice meal.She hasn't
seen the results yet, she's still returning my library books.
it is her birthday. I mentioned a spa day with a sauna, visit to
a nail bar, trip to the hairdressers and a nice meal.She hasn't
seen the results yet, she's still returning my library books.
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Friday, 5 September 2014
The Redhead's Birthday.
Well, it's the redhead's birthday again tomorrow and apparently she expects a present again even though she had one last year. It's not easy, boxes of broken biscuits are getting hard to find these days and charity shop staff stare at me when I buy a dress,what's a guy to do eh?
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Cattle-prod.
Been trying to hide the redhead's cattle-prod. I'm sure she has a tracking device in the handle.
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Teenagers.
Ever wondered how teenagers always know when money is being counted? Look closely at the ear shape, from a certain angle it looks like a £ sign.
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Monday, 1 September 2014
Catholic hymn
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Sunday, 31 August 2014
The Russian problem.
Is the Russian problem real or is Vladimir putin on an act?
He is definitely one of those people wanting to put their
marx on history but is he Stalin-g for time before he Mos-
cow-tows to NATO? Whatever the result Vlad, five Tsars for
trying.
He is definitely one of those people wanting to put their
marx on history but is he Stalin-g for time before he Mos-
cow-tows to NATO? Whatever the result Vlad, five Tsars for
trying.
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Saturday, 30 August 2014
Wind Turbine.
I had to yell at the local kids for climbing the wind turbine and hanging my shirts from the blades. "But mister" they said "the redhead told us it was a rotary drier."
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Wind-farm.
5-star Review for Shakespeare's Cuthbert.
As a previous reviewer has observed, Patrick Barrett writes like Tom Sharpe “without the bad
language”. Personally, I’d be happy to write like Tom Sharpe using any kind of language, and I
fully endorse that reviewer’s opinion. This is a refreshingly clean farce, combining all those
essential ingredients: a plot told at breakneck speed, a myriad of highly improbable situations, a
motley cast of engaging characters, and a huge sigh of relief when the curtain comes down.
Thoroughly recommended. This is the most pleasurable read I’ve had in ages. And just look at all
those 4- and 5-star reviews!
language”. Personally, I’d be happy to write like Tom Sharpe using any kind of language, and I
fully endorse that reviewer’s opinion. This is a refreshingly clean farce, combining all those
essential ingredients: a plot told at breakneck speed, a myriad of highly improbable situations, a
motley cast of engaging characters, and a huge sigh of relief when the curtain comes down.
Thoroughly recommended. This is the most pleasurable read I’ve had in ages. And just look at all
those 4- and 5-star reviews!
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Friday, 29 August 2014
Free Coffee.
I was considering giving free coffee with each of my books but it stains the pages.
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Beechams Powders
Use Beechams Powders as a pretend illicit substance and then sell them to the cops to cure the headache you've caused.
Regional accents.
Do you realise that I thoughtfully make all my posts in the regional accent of my readers? Just read this one out aloud and you'll hear it.
Watching the Redhead.
I watched the redhead doing something really strange today but then I thought of some of the other things I had watched her do and it wasn't that strange after all.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Mercedes Benz
Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all have bikes so I must start a trend
Worked hard all my lifetime
With my redhead as my friend
Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
My friends all have bikes so I must start a trend
Worked hard all my lifetime
With my redhead as my friend
Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Maxed-out.
I had a great idea, I named my dog 'Maxed-out' and shambled through the city unshaven shouting "Maxed-out" so that people would take pity and give me money. They'll arrest you for anything these days won't they?
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Tesco delivery
I think Tesco have gone all religious on us. The delivery today showed they had run out of plums and substituted the grapes of wrath. I'd better not let the redhead bite into the Adam's apples.
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Monday, 25 August 2014
Plan ahead.
Plan ahead they said so I did. I wrote a fantastic epitaph for myself but I still don't have a gravestone because the redhead has sent it to Thorstruck Press for its final edit. Reassuringly, the shovel is still by the back door.
Sunday, 24 August 2014
Suggestions.
I had a great idea today and so I suggested it
to the redhead, but after she checked her
diary, it turned out that my opinions aren't due
until next week.
to the redhead, but after she checked her
diary, it turned out that my opinions aren't due
until next week.
Saturday, 23 August 2014
Old habits.
Old habits die hard, when I go out with the redhead I still wear my nuclear-resistant balaclava and my asbestos gloves.
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Redhead
Day off.
Good morning world
It's a brand new day
The redhead says I can rest today.
I dash outside
With an adrenaline rush
To find a pile of cans and a big paint brush.
It's a brand new day
The redhead says I can rest today.
I dash outside
With an adrenaline rush
To find a pile of cans and a big paint brush.
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Friday, 22 August 2014
Aunt Liza
Aunt Liza is a beautiful redhead who uses a mobility scooter the way anyone else would use a panzer mk 1V. She has come to the valley to develop a cinema complex (Or as Cuthbert would have it 'electric people') and leaves with a 'valley complex'. The chaos inbetween her arriving and leaving is the basis for Cuthbert How Mean is my Valley.
Percy
Percy is a gardener. Everyone knows he is because he tells them he is at every opportunity. His college course had been quite fragmented because he spent it listening outside the classroom window and the lecturer had an unfortunate habit of pacing up and down so Percy only heard the bits when he passed an open window. On cold days when the windows were closed Percy didn't get any work done at all but even so, he is renowned for his dahlia vines and thistle beds.
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Thought you knew golf eh?
Anyone who has read any of the Cuthbert comedy series will realise that the Valley has a strange effect upon its inhabitants. When one of the males in a careless moment challenges the females to a golf match the lines are drawn and so are the daggers.
Redheads.
The Vikings
The vikings were a misunderstood race. Their ships were only that shape so they could transport cucumbers from Norway. The hoards of gold found were the result of selling vegetables to the monks of Northern England.
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Redheads and their ancestry.
The legend of the survival of the redheads has it that they refused to enter Noah's Ark because he wasn't offering vouchers. So they hijacked a passing albatross and reached the high ground first and that is why the albatross has been seen as bad luck for everyone else ever since.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2014
British Army.
The British Army eh? What berk in history designed a bright red jacket with white belts and straps and white trousers and then sent them out to roll in the mud killing chaps in blue coats and white trousers.
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Saturday, 16 August 2014
Shakespeare's Cuthbert
The first book set the scene for the Cuthbert series and this is the link. http://mybook.to/Cuthbert1.
Shakespeare himself was said to have lived in the valley as a young man and taught at Mandrake Hall where he produced a play which was not very complimentary to Elizabeth the first. Now in the present day there are strangers in the valley looking for this lost masterpiece and the chaos begins...
Shakespeare himself was said to have lived in the valley as a young man and taught at Mandrake Hall where he produced a play which was not very complimentary to Elizabeth the first. Now in the present day there are strangers in the valley looking for this lost masterpiece and the chaos begins...
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Bare chest.
Modern women eh? When I hear about a woman looking for a man with a bare chest I assume she's selling a cure for alopecia.
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Invisible Village.
Have you heard about the invisible village which forgot to get planning permission for unforseen circumstances?
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Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Ode to Paula
There once was a redhead named Paula,
Who never knew what would befall her,
She would be a good wife,
For the love of her life,
But Patrick came along just to stall her.
Who never knew what would befall her,
She would be a good wife,
For the love of her life,
But Patrick came along just to stall her.
Sunday, 10 August 2014
Barber College.
I was asked to retrain as a barber but I can't
harmonise and I don't know three others.
Then there's all
that hair cutting.
harmonise and I don't know three others.
Then there's all
that hair cutting.
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Turnip Fair.
We live in a small village and we hold a Turnip Fair once a year. Everyone dresses as a turnip and you have to guess what you neighbours have come as.
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Abu Bin Adham
Abu Bin Adham (may his tribes increase)
Awoke one night from a sweet dream of peace
He reached to his cupboard but was right out of luck.
Someone had stolen his new Cuthbert book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KW47UL6
Awoke one night from a sweet dream of peace
He reached to his cupboard but was right out of luck.
Someone had stolen his new Cuthbert book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KW47UL6
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Saturday, 9 August 2014
Training Manual
Excerpt from the Redhead Training Manual
You may find that the appearance of bruises on the neck can change many of your long held opinions.
You may find that the appearance of bruises on the neck can change many of your long held opinions.
Monsters?
Ever seen those old maps which state "Here be monsters"? I'm sure I can see my house.
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Friday, 8 August 2014
Charge!
Mobile phone..charging
Kindle..charging
Mobility scooter..charging
Light Brigade..charging (Dammit, I've sent them up the wrong valley!).
Kindle..charging
Mobility scooter..charging
Light Brigade..charging (Dammit, I've sent them up the wrong valley!).
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Thursday, 7 August 2014
Wedding Vows.
When I married the redhead the vicar offered
me a self-defence course but I went for
camouflage techniques instead. So basically I
vowed to stay hidden.
me a self-defence course but I went for
camouflage techniques instead. So basically I
vowed to stay hidden.
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Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Future's Orange.
According to an informed redheaded source the Chinese will take over the world so mandarin is the way forward, therefore I have made all my book covers orange. She then complained that they looked like Penguin books " But penguins are black and white" I said "And mine are already black and white inside." The redhead glared, "Asiatic" she snapped. "Bless you" I replied. Conversations aren't what they were are they?
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Monday, 4 August 2014
Iced Coffee.
Sitting with the redhead in a cafe when she brought me a cold coffee. "What's wrong?" she asked "I thought you liked iced coffee, you drink it at home.
I gulped before replying, "Not really dear, I just daren't ask for a top-up."
I gulped before replying, "Not really dear, I just daren't ask for a top-up."
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Sunday, 3 August 2014
The Redhead in the Rye?
Eeerie House.
You know those times when an old house creaks around you and you're not sure where the redhead is?
No?..I thought we were all in this together.
No?..I thought we were all in this together.
Saturday, 2 August 2014
Light and Tunnels.
If there really is a light at the end of the tunnel I bet it's the redhead with a torch and a list of jobs.
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