A Celebration and a Green Anorak
Hi Everyone Sadly in our social calendar, it is a fact that funerals are much more frequent than weddings, BBQs, and raves. In the last...
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Brian's Weekly Rubbish
brianmate
May 20, 20233 min read
Artificial Intelligence in the Clouds
Hi Everyone I learned a new phrase this week although some 'lucky' people have known about it for years - artificial intelligence. Just...
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brianmate
May 13, 20233 min read
Pasteis De Nata V The Two Scoop Tub
Hi Everyone If you are a long time Rubbish reader you will know that I am a connaisseur of the two scoop tub, expertise gained from our...
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brianmate
Apr 29, 20233 min read
Pot Hole Paradise
Hi Everyone A couple of weeks ago Richi, you know our Prime Minister was in the North East of England staring into a pothole in the road....
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brianmate
Apr 22, 20233 min read
Pick up a PPPPenguin
Hi Everyone Dot and I live within two miles of where we were born, an area just on the southern boundary of Stoke on Trent known...
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brianmate
Apr 15, 20233 min read
Just Don't Get Ill This Week
Hi Everyone When I employed staff and workers I would offer them a wage that I thought we could afford but that was somewhere near the...
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brianmate
Apr 8, 20233 min read
Easter Bunny and a Hot Cross Bun
Hi Everyone If you can remember that far back you will know that as children we went to school. Most of us were taken on our first day at...
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brianmate
Apr 1, 20233 min read
Upside Down News
Hi Everyone As a young teenager, Monday night was the night that I went with my pal Ken to the cinema, or "the Pictures" as it was known...
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brianmate
Mar 26, 20233 min read
Boris is back and so are Potholes
Hi Everyone If you thought that last week was exciting, this week is off the scale. Boris and Donald are back with Boris looking as...
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brianmate
Mar 19, 20233 min read
The Sound of Music
Hi Everyone What an exciting week we have had. That nice man who spends all our money stood in parliament for nearly an hour with that...
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brianmate
Mar 12, 20233 min read
As Time Goes By
Hi Everyone It seems that a number of our friends have been or are away on holiday, enjoying sunshine and warm weather, while we are here...
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brianmate
Mar 5, 20233 min read
What a Load of Turnips
Hi Everyone First, it was the financial crash, then came Covid followed by Ukraine, inflation, and the energy crisis and now we have...
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brianmate
Feb 25, 20233 min read
A Version of the Truth
Hi Everyone If you read my blog a year ago this week, you will have read that I said that we must do whatever is needed at whatever cost...
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brianmate
Feb 19, 20233 min read
Fly me to the Moon
Hi Everyone Remember that Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust"? Well, it happens again this week when another of our political...
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brianmate
Feb 12, 20233 min read
Bring Back the Good Old Days
Hi Everyone On the Facebook site, there are social media platforms. Now I bet that there are not many people approaching middle age who...
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brianmate
Feb 5, 20233 min read
Your Country Needs You, or do They?
Hi Everyone This week I had a great idea. I drew my private pensions when I retired now almost twenty years ago but as they were not...
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brianmate
Jan 29, 20234 min read
Building for the Future
Hi Everyone A popular programme on our TV that we enjoy is Grand Designs where people plan and build usually modern and unusual homes. I...
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brianmate
Jan 21, 20234 min read
Back to the Future
Hi Everyone This week, like every week, only comes around once a year but what makes this week different is that we have two things to...
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brianmate
Jan 15, 20233 min read
Somebody is Watching You
Hi Everyone When I wrote my one and only book back in 2019 I was delighted that Peter my publisher decided that it was worth inflicting...
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brianmate
Jan 7, 20233 min read
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Hi Everyone I noticed this week that Stoke on Trent is being nominated as one of the best places to live in England. Last year the city...
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