Last Updated on 15 December 2025 by Alf What’s wrong with performing your ablutions in a bucket and in front of your cell mate? What’s wrong with emptying your own waste each morning? “Slop out, slop out”, cried the screw in the corridor as he opened up the foul smelling cell to allow us to…
Think about this, sheep……
Last Updated on 3 October 2025 by Alf
What’s It All About?
Last Updated on 9 October 2025 by Alf Preface No fridge, freezer, washing machine, central heating, colour television, car, foreign holidays, landline telephone, Internet or mobile phone. We had a choice of 3 television channels to choose from, and there was still f*ck all on aside from Top Of The Pops, a bunch of racist sitcoms…
Chinese Burns
Last Updated on 30 May 2025 by Alf I am not a communist, but I am an anticapitalist As far as Communism goes, if you call a bunch of Capitalists selling off their country’s assets for their own avaricious and political gain a “collapse”, consider this: What about Great Depression, the worst systemic banking crisis…
A Tale Of Two Cities
Last Updated on 7 March 2025 by Alf For those who do not dwell on the cruel and barbarous actions of the Stasi, what is now often forgotten is that the GDR also represented an effort to build a completely new and egalitarian society. Gender equality and equal pay for men and women were part…
Wise Words I
Last Updated on 6 March 2025 by Alf The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it’s always in your face. —Pablo Picasso
Gatwick Blairport
Last Updated on 27 February 2025 by Alf The transport secretary Heidi Alexander tells the annual dinner of trade body, Airlines UK in London.” I love flying – I always have”. Meanwhile Kier Stammer (sic) bubbles with pride at the UK’s progress on carbon emissions ………. oh well, thats politics. Or as the transport secretary…
Howards End
Last Updated on 5 January 2025 by Alf 62 hours of pure joy; for little more than a large whiskey. 62 hours of not wasting precious funds on booze, to be told; “Vapers Not Welcome”. Is it any wonder that a record number of so called “pubs”, closed last month? Truth is, there are hardly…







