Ageing second generation Irish immigrant
south-Londoner now living in north-east Scotland.
Amongst other things:
Ex master-baker, chef, stand-up comic, club compère, salesman, guest-house keeper, businessman and one or two other things best not mentioned here. Now living in peaceful (or boring, depending on your point of view) retirement in rural Aberdeenshire with my long suffering wife and my teenage son.
I post things that interest me.
If anyone else finds them interesting, whoopee! I’m not a frustrated writer, politician or journalist. I am unaffiliated, politically and I have rather eclectic tastes and views, some of them contradictory! I hate, humbug, authoritarianism, hypocrisy, bullying, injustice and cant (among other things). Often mistaken for a cynic I am in fact merely a hardline sceptic who easily gets pissed off with all the bullshit in the world. I no longer fool myself that I can do anything to change things so I mostly concentrate on minimising the adverse effects of others on me and mine. I use this site mostly as a linkblog and now spend most of my time on Twitter. In the big scheme of things this site (just like 80 million others) doesn’t add up to a hill of beans. But then what does?
‘Ya’ll come back now, ya hear!’
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“Don’t you think morality is important?”
“Yes, but I don’t think importance is”
(Oscar Wilde)
