98th Entry Halton Apprentices

Chris Norman has raised a few points in his comments to my ‘Website Articles’ post which I will now attempt to put right. News today comes from Wellington (NZ) and Australia. The water front design under consultation and featured in the Wellington.Scoop has hit the headlines in NZ along with a story about blank walls. I wonder if the water front [...]

I had an email from the 98er above the other day. Do you recognise him? He lives in Adelaide, South Australia and we haven’t heard very much from him since tracking him down. It is Bruce Parker and he wanted to make contact with me via Yahoo. I have answered his call but have heard [...]

My thanks to those of you who took the trouble to write in about ‘Whistling in the Dark’. I am pleased to learn that there is 98th Entry life out there reading the website. I have also had some emails from those who (presumably) didn’t want to go public. My favourite is this :
Hi Mike, you [...]

While I am waiting to see who reads this rubbish it has been nothing but politics in the news. The picture above very much appealed to my sense of humour. 
Gordy has been forced to deny that he is going blind as he brushed off suggestions that he could use concerns over his health as an excuse to resign.
Telling [...]

 
 
Apart from stand on my head I believe I have done all I can to keep our Entry Website going. However, my daily posts have generally received little reaction or interest for some considerable time and so the old saying ‘flogging a dead horse’ comes to mind. It is, therefore, perhaps an appropriate time for me to reduce [...]

Nelson: ‘Order the signal, Hardy.’
Hardy: ‘Aye, aye sir.’
Nelson: ‘Hold on, that’s not what I dictated to Flags. What’s the meaning of this?’
Hardy: ‘Sorry sir?’
Nelson (reading aloud): ‘England expects every person to do his or her duty, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious persuasion, age or disability” What gobbledegook is this?’
Hardy: ‘Admiralty policy, I’m afraid, [...]

Gordy picked up his gong for ‘Statesman of the Year’ last night in the U.S. I wondered if the runner up was Robert Mugabe?
The award came from an outfit called the Appeal of Conscience (which sounds like something Baroness Scotland should be introduced to). It was presented to a grateful PM by Henry Kissinger who praised Gordy for [...]

I may be missing something here but when French police broke up the refugee camp at Calais yesterday I wondered why the Home Office continues to provide financial inducements to people like this who have not even reached the UK. £1,700 is paid to each individual living in the ‘Jungle’ if they return to their homeland. If they manage to [...]

“What Is all the fuss about? The Law is for you little people!”
Baroness Scotland has been a very naughty girl, the highest  legal authority in the land has been caught red-handed breaking a law she helped put on the statute book. Let me repeat the headline. The highest legal authority in the land has broken the law. Caught [...]

The six Italian soldiers killed in the Kabul suicide attack last week have been given a State Funeral and the day was declared a National Day of Mourning in Italy. I can’t help but contrast this situation with what happens here in the UK to our own fallen. How Government Ministers do everything they can [...]