Hi Everyone I like to think that I am a cup half full character so when I look for ideas for this Rubbish every week I try to entertain,...

Hi Everyone I am sure that at Christmas or over a dinner party table we have all dreamed about what we would do if we had lots of money....

Hi Everyone I think that you will have had to reach middle age to have heard of this Hollywood actress Mae West who was a star when films...

Hi Everyone This week I was listening briefly to a radio phone in programme while making a short journey in our car. The topic was the...

Hi Everyone A couple of weeks ago I went into our local budget supermarket to buy a bottle of whisky as a present for a friend, something...

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...

Hi Everyone I learned a new phrase this week although some 'lucky' people have known about it for years - artificial intelligence. Just...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi Everyone First, it was the financial crash, then came Covid followed by Ukraine, inflation, and the energy crisis and now we have...

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...

Hi Everyone Remember that Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust"? Well, it happens again this week when another of our political...

Hi Everyone On the Facebook site, there are social media platforms. Now I bet that there are not many people approaching middle age who...