BowAndArrowMan

Two days ago, my wife confirmed to me that my stepson pays no rent while living in our home. He gets fed, his clothes get laundered and bills get paid. Before he recently moved out and back in again, I long suspected this but I was assured by my wife that he pays rent to her. If there was a rent paid, at best I suspect at best it was paid on an ad hoc basis. He occasionally chipped in with a shopping bill, or so I was told. Since my stepson has come back to live with us, I haven't seen much evidence of a 'rent' being paid. He once bought a big bag of crisps which he largely consumed, he bought a few jars of cockles again something that he only eats, and he paid a couple of his friends to finish the job of trimming a hedge and cutting the lawn which he volunteered to do. That's the only evidence of 'rent' I've seen. My view is that he should pay rent because he works. My wife and I sometimes struggle to pay the bills. He spends almost all his wages on himself

Little Willie John: Here is my next post in the series in which I'll argue that the cover is better than the original version of the song. This time I'm going to compare Little Willie John's original version and The Cramps' cover version of the song, Fever . Written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, Fever was first recorded by Little Willie John, an American R 'n' B singer, for his debut album in 1956. When the song was released as a single, it became a hit in America. Little Willie John's Fever : There's a stellar cast of musical artists who have covered the Fever song. Elvis Presley, Helen Shapiro, James Brown, Rita Coolidge, Suzi Quatro, Boney M., Sylvester, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Michael Bubl é, Beyonc é  and Dua Lipa have all covered the song, and many of them had hits with their cover versions of the song. But Peggy Lee's 1958 rendition is often held up to be the song's signature cover. So out of fairness, I'm uploading her co

With the increasing popularity of online dating, Lincolnshire County Council launched the 'Ask for Angela' scheme. The scheme has now been rolled out in many other areas in Britain. It is a scheme designed to protect people if they feel threatened on a date in a bar or pub. Under the 'Ask for Angela' scheme, women (and men) if they feel threatened on a date can approach a member of staff in a bar and pub and ask for Angela. That is the codeword for the member of staff to take action to help ensure their safety by, for example, calling a taxi, providing a safe place and even contacting the police. Though I've had many dates and even a few bad dates, I've never had a date in which I felt threatened. And I sincerely hope my date never felt threatened by me. I always ensured my first date was held in a public place like a bar, pub or restaurant. However, I never went out of my way to tell a friend about the details of a date (eg location of date, time due back home,

A chav is a pejorative English term referring to an anti-social young man often wearing sportswear or a hoodie. The term is particularly aimed at young men from a working (or more likely non-working) class families and with very few school qualifications. The term, chavette, is used to refer to a chavvish young woman. I'm sure other countries have similarly pejorative terms for these groups of young people. Though often called a snob by many in my wife's family, I see my wife's family as distinctly chavvish. Yesterday was one of those days when I realised I'm hanging out with chavs. My wife was driving her son, two grandchildren and myself to a restaurant for a Sunday lunch. It was a hot day so all the windows of the car were open. My oldest grandson, aged 12, was sitting between me and my stepson in the back seat of the car. My youngest grandson, aged 6, always wants to sit in the front seat - to keep the peace, it's easier to let him take the front passenger seat.

John Lennon: Here is my next post in the series in which I'll argue that the cover is better than the original version of the song. This time I'm going to compare John Lennon's original version and Roxy Music's cover version of the song, Jealous Guy . Jealous Guy was written by John Lennon; the song was not initially released as a single but appeared on his Imagine album released in 1971. John Lennon said that the song was about his possessiveness of his wife, Yoko Ono, but a few music critics have suggested the song was also about his jealousy of Paul McCartney who was idolised more than John Lennon during The Beatles' years. John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band's Jealous Guy (not John Lennon's original version): Following John Lennon's murder outside his New York home on 8 December 1980, Roxy Music added a cover of his Jealous Guy song to their set while touring Germany. The band later recorded the song and released it as a single in February 1981.

To mark International Sushi Day on 18th of June, a London art gallery very recently exhibited a series of celebrity busts. The food artist Michelle Wibowo, from West Sussex on the English south coast, used traditional sushi ingredients like sushi rice (aka shari and sumeshi), smoked salmon and pickled ginger, to create the busts of many famous British celebrities. The artist made sushi heads of celebrities like Alison Hammond, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bukayo Saka, Dermot O'Leary, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Harry Kane, and Lorraine Kelly. Unfortunately, there are quite a few spelling mistakes of the names of several celebrities. I must admit I'm not too impressed with her art and I certainly wont be rushing down to London to see Michelle Wibowo's sushi heads at that art exhibition. Have you eaten sushi? If so, do you like eating sushi? I've never tried eating sushi and I'm not tempted, mainly because sushi is often made with seafood and even raw seafood.