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Brian's Weekly Rubbish


brianmate
5 days ago3 min read
America Should Be Ashamed
Hi Everyone When the terrible events of 9/11 took place, all the NATO countries quite properly regarded it as an attack on themselves as...
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brianmate
Mar 13 min read
All the Planets and Bullies are out to Play
Hi Everyone I bet that every one of us remembers who the bullies were when we were at school. We kept away from them as much as possible...
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brianmate
Feb 223 min read
Making Sense of the World
Hi Everyone I heard someone say this week that to make sense of the world we live in at the moment is to escape into music, art, theatre...
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brianmate
Feb 153 min read
A Donald Free Week, Well Almost.
Hi Everyone This is just a very small example of how bureaucracy and regulation have changed over the last nearly seventy years. When we...
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brianmate
Feb 83 min read
Welcome to the Madhouse
Hi Everyone As I was born before WW2 started, as a small child I was oblivious to all those world events. It was not until the end of the...
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brianmate
Feb 13 min read
Be Careful With Your Choice of Words
Hi Everyone In the 1950s when I started my working career at a timber and joinery factory, there were standard windows and doors but...
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brianmate
Jan 253 min read
I Say Goodbye and You Say Hello.
Hi Everyone If you went on the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour in the 1960s, you will remember the song "Hello, Goodbye." Although I was a...
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brianmate
Jan 113 min read
No Worries, The Cavalry are Coming
Hi Everyone Something that we are told we must preserve at all costs is free speech. I have aways thought that it is up to all of us to...
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brianmate
Jan 43 min read
A Million Things I Learned Last Year
Hi Everyone I thought that it might be a good idea to look back at 2024 to see what pearls of wisdom I have learned this year especially...
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brianmate
Dec 28, 20243 min read
Another Christmas Has Come and Gone
Hi Everyone Well, that is another three month Christmas come and gone. If you are sad to see it all end, don't worry a three week...
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brianmate
Dec 21, 20243 min read
Turkey and Tinsel Time
Hi Everyone For the last thirty plus years I have accompanied the real Santa around the streets of our local area as a treat for the...
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brianmate
Dec 14, 20243 min read
Wishing you a Merry Thriftmas
Hi Everyone In the days of the Fruit, Vegetable, Flower, Game and Lolly shop there were no charity shops, just a Pawnbrokers about thirty...
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brianmate
Dec 7, 20242 min read
Pinewood Studios and The Fantasy Beyond
Hi Everyone When we were young before the days of television, and even when there were 2 channels to choose from, the cinema or "the...
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brianmate
Nov 30, 20242 min read
It's All Things Italian, Gracias
Hi Everyone When you are approaching middle age, you find that sometimes you just sit in a comfortable chair doing absolutely nothing,...
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brianmate
Nov 23, 20242 min read
The Price of Peace
Hi Everyone In the week that Russia invaded Ukraine, I said in my blog that we must make sure that Ukraine remains a free independent...
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brianmate
Nov 16, 20243 min read
Pudsey Bear is Watching You
Hi Everyone A few years ago we visited that lovely market town of Pudsey in Yorkshire. I suppose you could say that it is one of the more...
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brianmate
Nov 9, 20243 min read
Does Honesty Really Pay
Hi Everyone Back in the 1980s part of my business involved installing UPVC windows in people's homes. At the beginning, we were one of...
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brianmate
Nov 2, 20243 min read
Take it from me, we are good at Something
Hi Everyone Every Wednesday at 12-00 when parliament is in session, there is a ritual called Prime Minister's Questions. This is one of...
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brianmate
Oct 26, 20243 min read
Deny Everything, Admit Nothing.
Hi Everyone Mr. Deny Everything, Admit Nothing was interviewed on our TV screens this week. He lives in luxury in London, speaks English,...
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brianmate
Oct 19, 20243 min read
Don't Say that Word Obese
Hi Everyone When I was young I cannot remember seeing anyone who could be described as obese, This was a time when men were returning...
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