Man in Dark Grey
Song by Johnny Cash, colour changed by Martin j Robson
Well, you wonder why I always dress in dark grey, Why you never see bright colors on my back And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone. Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on
I wear the dark grey for the poor and the beaten down. Living in the hopeless, hungry side of town. I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. But is there because he’s a victim of the time.
I wear the dark grey for those who’ve never read Or listened to the words that Cash said About the road to happiness through love and charity. Why, you’d think He’s talking straight to you and me. Well, we’re doing mighty fine, I do suppose.
In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes But just so we’re reminded of the ones who are held back. Up front there ought to be a man in dark grey.
I wear it for the sick and lonely old. For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold. I wear the dark grey in mourning for the lives that could have been. Each week we lose a hundred fine young men And I wear it for the thousands who have died. Believing that the Cash was on their side. I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died. Believing that we all were on their side. Well, there’s things that never will be right I know. And things need changing everywhere you go. But ’til we start to make a move to make a few things right
You’ll never see me wear a suit of white. Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day And tell the world that everything’s okay But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. Til things are brighter, I’m the Man In Dark Grey
Source: Musixmatch
In 2021 listening to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_Needs,_Women%27s_Needs,_Whatever
Drink out to talk Footy
rumour that Major European Breweries behind the Let’s Talk Football campaign to help hospitality ease out of lockdown restrictions. After news of a European Super League (ESL) and the English Premier League’s (EPL) ‘big six’ agreeing to join new midweek league. ESL agreement published on the eve of The UEFA Champions League revamp launch. So the ESL ‘big 15’ are preempting the UEFA negotiations in an aggressive move to garner more money and more control
The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/18/five-english-clubs-sign-up-to-european-super-league-report-says
BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56795811
CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/18/sport/football-super-league-announced/index.html
#Drinkout2talkfooty #EatOut2HelpOut #MajorEuropeanBreweries #Hospitality #LetsTalkFootball #LockdownEasing #ESL #EPL #UEFA #FIFA #FA
how much I’ve done since the last Census in 2011
Since Census Day was Sunday 21st March I have been thinking about how much I’ve done since the last census in 2011. So much has happened over the past 10 years. So March 2011 to March 2021, scratches head, what have I done, it’s all quite blurry, I think I’ll have a cuppa whilst I think.
Tea, tea is one thing that has changed for me in the last ten years. I have really upped my tea drinking, I have gone from being an occasional user to a 5 bags a day man.
For most of the first 5 years I was living back with my parents after moving from London to Yorkshire. This is where the seeping influence of my father boiling the kettle every hour has led me to being a caffeine and sugar addict. My parents use a teapot with two bags per brew that can fill two and a half cups.
For the most of the second five years I have lived with my partner who early on in our relationship bought me a large mug. However, in neither of the two properties my partner has lived in, has she had a teapot. This has meant the teabag would go straight in the large mug and I need two sugars for this amount of tea. But I still boil the kettle every hour thanks to my father. In the last year due to the pandemic and resulting lockdown in England I have been furloughed for over 6 months from my job as a sales assistant in a non essential retail shop in Leeds City centre. Whilst at work there is a ‘no hot drinks on the shop floor’ rule so I can’t drink tea at work, at home tea has become an essential part of the pattern and rhythm of the day. However I have had to institute tea rules due to potential high caffeine and high sugar consumption. In the last month I have been trialling an alternating approach of PG Tips and Lemon, Ginger and Ginseng which helps with moderating caffeine but not with sugar which I need even more with lemon tea. I do have a sweet tooth.
but they’ve been our enemies for the most of the past 900 years
From
Yes, Minister
Season Three
Episode Two
The Challenge:
discussing the French…
> Sir Humphrey: [talking about nuclear fallout shelters] Well, you have the weapons; you must have the shelters.
> Hacker: I sometimes wonder why we need the weapons.
> Sir Humphrey: Minister! You’re not a unilateralist?
> Hacker: I sometimes wonder, you know.
> Sir Humphrey: Well, then, you must resign from the government!
> Hacker: Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I’m not that unilateralist! Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won’t they?
> Sir Humphrey: Russians? Who’s talking about the Russians?
> Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent.
> Sir Humphrey: It’s to protect us against the French!
> Hacker: The French?! But that’s astounding!
> Sir Humphrey: Why?
> Hacker: Well they’re our allies, our partners.
> Sir Humphrey: Well, they are now, but they’ve been our enemies for the most of the past 900 years. If they’ve got the bomb, we must have the bomb!
> Hacker: If it’s for the French, of course, that’s different. Makes a lot of sense.
> Sir Humphrey: Yes. Can’t trust the Frogs.
> Hacker: You can say that again!
“Remember the dead and fight for the living”
written by Steve Davison President Keighley TUC
April 28th is International Workers Memorial Day. A day when we reflect upon the loss of life at work and we pledge to redouble our efforts to protect those currently working. Our slogan is ‘remember the dead and fight for the living’.
In line with Government social isolation policies we will not be holding our annual public event in Keighley.
The Covid-19 virus has laid bare for everyone to see the consequences of running down our essential services and profiteering out of ill-health and old age. Running parallel with this has been an ideological war against Health and Safety under the banner of “health and safety gone mad”, “nanny state’, “over-zealous”, “snow-flakes”. Well it’s not very funny now that our front-line workers are deprived of essential PPE. The position for our care-workers is even more perilous. Transport and warehouse and distribution workers, shop workers, those manufacturing the parts and machines necessary to preserve life. The list is endless. We are all essential and all deserve protection at work.
It cannot be right that front-line NHS and Care staff are faced with the dilemma of should they risk their own lives for the infected. They too have families. Or that workers risk going to work because they don’t have enough money to feed their families.
“Fight for the living” is not an abstract slogan. It is the reality of the UK here and now. It is all of our responsibilities to ensure we protect lives at work. Trade unions will strain every muscle to ensure this happens and after the virus is under control we will fight even harder to ensure the risks to lives at work is eradicated as we have done for two centuries now.
There will be enquiry’s and those responsible for this negligence will be held to account. But that is for tomorrow.
Today we “remember the dead (take care of those dying) and fight for the living”.
Steve Davison
President Keighley TU
Health emergency
it’s probably by design rather than coincidence that the quarantine hospital is on a peninsula
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51325192
Arrowe Park Hospital, Birkenhead, Wirral https://goo.gl/maps/T3D8DdME2MEhqyK69
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/22/mapping-spread-new-coronavirus/
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public
Cats spotted when campaigning around Twyning and Ripple Road in Stirchley
Yesterday, I found myself knocking on doors in Stirchley after work in and around the streets of Twyning Road and Ripple Road.
Our team of Bournville Labour party volunteers had a good evening. We had many positive conversations with residents and persuaded a good few people to display ‘Vote Labour’ posters in their window. And from a personal perspective, I enjoyed meeting some new Labour party members. You can see a photo I took of the team on Twitter and our Facebook page.
But more importantly, what kind of reception did I get from the cats of Stirchley? I’m pleased to say I was given a mostly warm welcome from the cats I spotted while knocking on doors. Let’s meet the non-voters.
Inquisitive ginger and black cat spotted on Twyning Road in Stirchley
Shy white cat with ginger splodges spotted from afar on Norton Terrace in Stirchley
Black cat looking…
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Great turn out as Roy Hattersley and Jon Trickett speak in support of John Grogan at Labour’s General Election launch in Keighley
Great turn out at Central Hall, Alice Street tonight as Labour launch the General Election campaign in Keighley and welcome speakers Lord Roy Hattersley and Jon Trickett MP.
“Roy is one of the legends of the Labour party and was a loyal and effective deputy to Neil Kinnock. He served as a senior minister in both the Wilson and Callaghan governments and although he was an MP in Birmingham for 33 years, he never lost his Yorkshire roots. The great theme of his political life and extensive writing has been equality of opportunity – an idea which will certainly be of relevance in the 2015 election.”
Jon Trickett is Deputy Chair of the Labour Party and has represented Hemsworth in West Yorkshire as MP since 1996.
WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED – Men Are Just Happier People
Your last name stays put – unless one goes double barrelled
The garage is all yours – i don’t drive
Wedding plans take care of themselves – I have lots of ideas myself
Chocolate is just another snack – that’s true
You can never be pregnant
Car mechanics tell you the truth
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another petrol station toilet because this one is just too icky.
You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them..
New shoes don’t cut, blister, or mangle your feet..
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks and engines.
A five-day holiday requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness..
Your underwear is £8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You never have strap problems in public
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original colour.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
One wallet and one pair of shoes — one colour for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can ‘do’ your nails with a pen knife..
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a moustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.
No wonder men are happier
TWO TRIBES hosted by Pointless’s Richard Osman
Two Tribes – the hit BBC Two quiz show hosted by Pointless star Richard Osman -is back for a brand new series in 2015.
From the makers of Pointless, Deal or No Deal and The Million Pound Drop, Two Tribes is the only show on TV where what you think could be as important as what you know!
Before each show the contestants are asked hundreds of probing, funny and surprising questions all about themselves. Their answers reveal how they think, how they live, what they like and what they don’t like. Round by round these questions split the contestants into Two Tribes – those who answered YES versus those who answered NO.
The show records at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood on weekdays in January and February 2015 at 11.45am and 4.45pm. If you would like to join us, then apply now!
Booking is now open and you may apply online via our website at http://www.sroaudiences.com
The minimum age for attendance at this show is 18. We shall notify successful applicants as quickly as possible by email with their eticket. This is always a very popular show, so do apply as quickly as possible. We may not be able to issue tickets to everyone who applies. All tickets are issued free of charge and are strictly non-transferable.
Tickets for all of our shows are FREE. To see all the other shows for which we are currently booking or those coming soon, please visit our website at http://www.sroaudiences.com
We look forward to seeing you at a show soon!
Kind regards
Martin & the team
SRO Audiences
How mentally strong are you? Can you tell? Rethink n Mind
Are your virtual friends on Facebook often completing quizzes, you know 9 questions and what type of person are you? Well I took an exception and did this one and my result was:
“Your resiliency level is: exceptionally gifted. You are mentally tough. A good analogy for you would be the Energizer Bunny — basically something that just keeps going and going no matter what. You are able to overcome difficult situations and remain cool, calm and collected. You are always prepared to seek solutions and get back on track. You almost never let disappointments deter you from what you want — instead, you stay focused and plan to be successful. The hardships you’ve faced in your life have been instrumental in developing this kind of amazing strength and perseverance within you.”
Reasons to be Thankful part III for D.I.V.O.R.C.E
Found a good article on Huff post that you’d like, here’s my summary:
(selected with my friend in mind who this week is moving out with her 3 kids)
16 Reasons To Be Grateful For Divorce (Yes, Divorce)
Divorce may seem like an odd thing to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. But as plenty of HuffPost Divorce readers and bloggers will tell you, nothing forces you to reevaluate your priorities quite like a split.
Below, they share the new relationships, opportunities and strengthened bonds with their kids that made their divorces entirely worth the trouble.
9. “I’m grateful I no longer cry everyday on my drive home, looking for any excuse to not go home. I’m happier since my divorce. I no longer have to cater to someone who never appreciated everything I did for him until I left.” -Maranda R.
10. “I’m grateful that I was able to pull myself up from the wreckage of divorce, gathering up pieces of my broken dreams and with them, creating something new and better. Divorce was merely the flash paper igniting the change. If divorce affords us anything it’s the chance to rewind, reflect, and renew. We take what we learn and choose to do life differently. I came to see my divorce as a remarkable gift. I now had the freedom to build a unique and lasting bond with my children, outside the shadow of their mother. A decade later, I realize that divorce was the best gift I could have received.” -Kyle Bradford
15. “I feel so light since my divorce and feel lighter everyday. My worries are lifted off my chest more and more each day. My children found it surprising when I was sitting and smiling for no reason –- now that’s going to be my regular face. Life isn’t going to be easy, but so far it never has been. I didn’t plan this, but it has been a gift and I am going to treasure it and make sure it doesn’t go to waste.” -Amelia Maciejewski
16. “So many people stay together ‘for the kids.’ I am thankful that I have the opportunity to teach my kids that no one should endure a miserable existence. My happiness was, and continues to be, my own responsibility. Other than raising my kids to be independent, responsible human beings, the most important thing I can teach them is not to rely on someone else to ‘make’ them happy. My divorce gave me the opportunity to truly be happy, and I’m thankful for that every day.” -Michel B.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/27/why-im-thankful-for-divorce_n_6201872.html
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Goober Dads
“I look just like my dad. That scares me to death. Afraid I’m going to wake up one day and start acting like my dad and I know he was a kid at one point. At what point did he become a goober? That’s what I want to know. Shoot me the day before that goober transition. And all dad’s are goobers I don’t know what it is, life just breaks a man. One day men just wake up and go… “Fuck it! I don’t care what people think of me any more. I’m going to wait for the paper boy in my underwear… I’m going to go to the mall in a Bermuda jumpsuit… I’m going to walk around the house in a robe that won’t quite close… Hello, daddies fixing breakfast! Who wants sausage?” Dad, you’re a GOOBER! I’ve seen my dad go into Mcdonalds and ask if they serve hamburgers before. Major level gooberosity this. “Scuse me, ya’ all serve burgers here?” …dad just wait in the fucking car, roll the windows up. Luckily the kid behind the counter was acting like his dad. “Wait a minute, I’ll check… Nope.” Telling you an, you guy’s ever find yourself sitting around in the house… not really thinking like that… that goober moment is almost upon you. When that sock starts dangling and you don’t care you got some serious fucking questions you better start asking yourself. You’re about to start worrying about your lawn. “I wonder how the lawn is…” I be stripped to my Jockey’s… Go stand in ma lawn. My goober Castle. Survey my goober domain. Let me pick at my ear at a hundred miles an hour…”.
(c) Bill Hicks 1989 http://comedy-quotes.com/bill-hicks/goober_dads.html
Independence for Scotland? Devolve the United Kingdom
If Scotland becomes independent in 2014, the United Kingdom should be fully devolved with England becoming independent, Wales becoming independent and Northern Ireland becoming independent. Then the Union flag would cease to exist.
All four nations that currently make up the United Kingdom already have their own flags. All four nations would still be part of the EU, all four countries could still use the Pound Sterling as currency, all would still be part of NATO.
The UK would be dead, long live Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25205017
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
Europe or Asia, European Union or Russian Federation, rock and a hard place?
Six countries are in the news this week as talks are held about trade relations.
http://www.eu2013.lt/en/vilnius-summit
The countries are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Whose backyard are these countries in Europe’s or Russia’s, who welds the most influence, in which direction do these countries want to face towards Berlin or Moscow?
Are these countries in Europe or Asia, are these countries best connected to the European Union or the Russian Federation?
The Christmas Lunch Incident from The Vicar of Dibley: Season 1, Episode 8, Thanks to Rhona Emmott for the reminder
The Christmas Lunch Incident; The Vicar of Dibley: Season 1, Episode 8
Geraldine is so popular that everybody wants her round for Christmas dinner so she won’t be alone. Geraldine reluctantly agrees to four different sets of Christmas dinner; one with David and Hugo, one with Frank and Jim, one with Alice and one with Owen. She soon lives to regret it..
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0739937/
YouTube Video Clips:
- The Vicar of Dibley-The Christmas Lunch Incident 1/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvfFpdIFTsI
- The Vicar of Dibley-The Christmas Lunch Incident 2/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4i6xJpnVjU
- The Vicar Of Dibley-The Christmas Lunch Incident 3/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjo01l_fksU
- The Vicar Of Dibley-the Christmas Lunch Incident 4/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wLBADeCYHE
- The Vicar Of Dibley-The Christmas Lunch Incident 5/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ietA6wq2LGY
Thanks to Rhona Emmott for reminding me of this episode
Military Reaction Force (#MRF) “We were not there to act like an #Army unit, we were there to act like a #terror group” @BBCPanorama #NorthernIreland
Military Reaction Force (#MRF)
“We were not there to act like an Army unit, we were there to act like a terror group… we were there in a position to go after IRA and kill them when we found them,” a former MRF soldier says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24987465
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03jprmx/Panorama_Britains_Secret_Terror_Force/
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@ at shorthand for location or way of replying on Twitter
🙂 Smiley Ha ha
😦 Unsmiley grumpy or hate depending on the mood
😉 Wink cheeky or sarcastic
£ expensive
***** 5 stars highly recommended
**** 4 stars well i really liked it
*** 3 stars I might watch it on ITV on a Saturday night
** 2 stars it is alrights for lads but one couldn’t take girls there
* 1 star I don’t know why they bothered a complete waste of time
! explanation mark I don’t know how to express myself clearly with words
To Tick is to Like
@? On Twitter? can one contact them on Twitter?
* Little Star is to find interesting
# Hashtag represents a searchable keyword or topic
(s) source to correctly record the origins
(tx2) inspired by this is like Via and (s) but includes some original thinking
% percentage used by the numerate as a shorthand
(Q) Question
(A) Answer
” ” Quote
-> go to this relates to…
… continued from or continued to
NB noteworthy to follow up
RT Reply to
Ref Reference often a 12 digit number from the sales organisation
Stat interesting statistic worth NB-ing
Action like NB but with more important
Twt Tweetable I should Tweet this
Via I got this from somebody else & I want to credit them
lol lots of love or lots of laughs
txt Text and the written word
tkts Tickets
lower case indicates too lazy to hold down Shift
UPPER CASE indicates shouting
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