RI (not so much) P 2016

What an epic year it’s been.  For all the wrong reasons.  For starters, I think we might have seen some of the Grim Reaper’s finest work.  EVER. He got super slashy with the old scythe, over-enthusiastically mowing down:  Prince, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Robert Vaughn, Leonard Cohen, Pete Burns, Jean Alexander, Gene Wilder, Caroline Aherne, […]

Open letter to the USA

Ms Anne Pank some dark, gothic street Barcelona Dear United States of America, I hope you don’t mind me getting in touch with you like this, but the desire was too strong to ignore. Tomorrow is D-Day.  Don’t f*ck it up. I do apologise, let me rephrase that.  Failing President Obama – knowledgeable, elegant, diplomatic, […]

Reasons why I don’t have kids #48

….. Donald Trump, David Cameron, George Osborne, doping scandals in athletics, crooked football organisations, crooked police, crooked politicians (in every country), Sepp Blatter, Vladimir Putin, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin’s son, BoB (rapper and flat earth believer), The Flat Earth Society, Kim Jong-Un, religious bigots of ALL denominations, Westboro Baptist Church, corrupt bankers, governments who don’t hold […]

Hi there 2016, what have you got for us?

So, we’re a week into 2016 already, and it feels like any other year, right? WRONG! This is the year that our collective brain is highly likely to melt out of our ears, creating something that closely resembles the primordial soup from which we came.  How do I know this? Drummond Puddle Watch What a time […]

2015, the year that was….

…… responsible for a gazillion teenage hearts breaking, when “bad boy”(I am also doing actual air inverted commas here), Zayn Malik announced his departure from the most successful boyband of all time. Ironically named, One Direction….. that direction being, into obscurity.  A gazillion more hearts were broken, when the remaining members of the band announced […]