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Unbelievably I still have my mortal coil as I write these lines. Through a land of faulty liver, kidneys and even the odd heart stopping moment (quite literally), I am still here to witness the curses visited upon mankind and my corner of it against all the odds on falling at the last fence givenContinue reading “Even Plaguer Times – 9th May 2025”

Almost exactly 100 years ago today or so it seems, I started work in a small non-descript Office in a grimy side street of the City of London for a financial broking house that owed almost as much to it’s Victorian history as it did to its Landlord and Creditors. It seems like only yesterdayContinue reading “Even Plaguer Times – 1st September 2023”

Unbelievably the state of the World and particularly my piece of it has slid even further down the cliff since the ebb of bat-flu and its aftermath 2 years ago.There has been a long hiatus since my last note from the Bourgeois trenches mainly due to a misunderstanding concerning a mountain of unpaid tax onContinue reading “Even Plaguer Times – 30th August 2023”

The full force of the life choice the Great British voters have made is dawning over a wounded & strangely muted Country. Peasants are not waving pitchforks & Hayricks are not actually burning. Although we got close in Bristol last week when an anti-police bill protest went sour. It is all beginning to vaguely smackContinue reading “Plague Times – 23rd March, 2021”

I have just got off the Videophone with my cohorts Borke, Swine, Astral-Martin & Pitt-Quicker, the news from all fronts is not good. Pitt-Quicker – the man who literally broke the bank at Monte-Carlo in 2008 & then sold it poverty insurance – is a deeply worried man. And when he frets we sweat. Fire,Continue reading “Plague Times – 7th February, 2021”

For once the half-arsed approach Boris Bunter & the Fourth Form take to everything they touch seems to be paying off. Having realized they hadn’t put enough of any particular make of bat-flu fixant on the shopping list for 120 million doses – presumably because they were hedging their bets & our currency – andContinue reading “Plague Times – 5th February 2021”

I am reminded in these uncertain times of my old English teacher who revelled in the name Runciman Wilberforce Ackerly and had the character to match. In his tatty graduating robes and motarboard hat he would flounce into our ancient wooden panelled classroom that smelled of long dead ink, forgotten texts & previous inmates sweat,Continue reading “Plague Times – 23rd January 2021”

The plague is making a comeback and our head clown is tightening the screws again on who, when & where we can catch the blight. I have watched with increasing horror the mounting ineptitude of our leaders in almost every sphere of endeavour they undertake. I am watching an unfolding farce with no resolution andContinue reading “Plague Times – 10th September 2020”

My dark mood has been laid even further low and up until today I didn’t think that was possible. Pitt-Quicker has been on the all-seeing telephone to say that the great Brexit cash-in is in danger of going the same way as free school milk and one of my racing certanities in the 2:30 atContinue reading “Plague Times – 27th August 2020”

I have been mesmerised by the Twitterati. They seem to fall into 2 main camps: the hunters and the hunted. British hunters are typically aggrieved, educated pro EU types who believe they are victimized by stupid, racist, people bent on destroying the Home Counties way of life and all who live there. The hunted areContinue reading “Plague Times – August 25th 2020”