Colonel Irrelevant

It’s been a few days since my last update and I’ve been thinking about planes.
Specifically the ones I spend time in flying around Europe.
Personally, I like Airbuses - they are well thought out and comfortable.
Boeing’s are generally fine, although old 737’s are a bot tatty now.
The BAe things, Canadair jets, etc are all OK in [...]

I was reading on the BBC website about an increase in ruptured bladders amongst women.
Personally, I’ve never heard about ruptured bladders until I read this article and I’m glad, because since then my mind has been haunted by the thought of my bladder bursting.
The condition appears when someone has had too much alcohol. This [...]

I like German Christmas markets, but somehow the real thing manages to be more cheerfuk when shut than the one in Birmingham at full swing.
I don’t get it. Brum is a big city but it always seems to behave and feel like a small town. There’s non of the swagger of Manchester or [...]

Oh yes.
Shortcrust pastry, rolled out on a baking tray. Chop apples up into little bits.
Drop them in the middle, drizzle honey over, sprinkle with cinnamon.
Push the pastry up over the sides of the apple pile. Leave a hole in the middle.
Glaze pastry with egg, then sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon then stick in [...]

Edinburgh is a great city - one of the best to wander around on a cold, dry Autumn evening.
It’s strange to hear bagpipes everywhere especially as they have an adverse effect on this Englishman. Somehow it always feels like Bannockburn again …
Anyway, Edingburgh is built on all kinds of levels and slopes. It [...]

Saturday night I was driving home when I turned off the main road and into a side street.
Marching down the street, in the road, was a squad of WWI Tommies, led by an Officer.
Unfortunately, they were dressed in field khaki, which is great camouflage in the dark in poor street lighting, so being in the [...]

Frankie Goes To Hollywood really started something with their big slogan t-shirts.
Frankie Say Relax; War! Hide Yourself; etc. were all the rage.
And then it just kept coming and changing. It probably all started with the world-famous Kiss Me Qucik hats from the 1970’s.
And now we have the slogan ‘Juicy’ presented in dayglo plush on [...]

Martin Keown was describing Christiano Ronaldo playing football today.
Now Little Chris is known for a little thing he does called a Stepover. He is also known in Tabloid World for ‘entertaining’ young ladies.
So maybe it wasn’t a mistake when he described a ‘legover’ during the game today ….

It appears that I’ve been writing this drivel for around 8 months now, which seems very odd.
Looking back there have been things I wish I written more about and some things that I’d ignored.
It can be a challenge to write about things that are mundane but then again its not like what I write really [...]

Just got back from seeing Serj Tankian support the Foo Fighters.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Two great showmen having a great time. Very professional, very polished but so full of originality and yet tradition. Great rock and roll from the Foos, with Serj delivering a strange mix of Fagin and Ozzy Osbourne.
No airs and graces just [...]