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June 12, 20260Comments

GOM World Cup Diary #2: By the Time the Opening Ceremony Finished, I’d Forgotten There Was a Match

By the Time the Opening Ceremony Finished, I'd Forgotten There Was a Match I switched on last night to watch a football match. That, at least, was the plan. What I actually got

June 11, 20260Comments

GOM World Cup Diary #1: Why Does Every Football Tournament Need an Opening Ceremony?

Why Does Every Football Tournament Need an Opening Ceremony? The football starts tonight. Or at least, that's what I've been told. Personally, I was under the impression that football tournaments began when

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Humour

June 11, 20260Comments

Grumpy Old Man and Queues

Whatever Happened to a Good Queue? There was a time when people knew how to queue. It wasn't written down anywhere. There wasn't a government leaflet about it. Nobody needed an

April 16, 20230Comments

Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day – April 16th

Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day is an annual event that encourages people to work from home in their pajamas. The day is typically celebrated on April 16th each year,

August 7, 20212Comments

Tokyo Olympics – 2021

It was in 1964 that I was first glued to the television set watching black and white grainy pictures of swimming, athletics and boxing from the first Olympics held in

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Grumpy Old Man

Humour

May 31, 20200Comments

Grumpy Old Man – Social Distancing

After a good nine to ten weeks of enforced self-isolation, this past week I have been allowed outside of my house into the more general world by Mrs Grumpy apart

May 18, 20200Comments

Food For Thought – Who Does It?

After the post last week, https://davethomasonline.com/blog/food-for-thought-the-indispensable-man/, I dug out another simple, but humourous story that illustrates the need for communication. I've looked for the author of this, but their name has

May 11, 20205Comments

Food For Thought – The Indispensable Man

I was clearing out some old boxes of papers in the garage the other day and came across this wonderful poem (and a real poem in that the words rhyme

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Grumpy Old Man

Humour

July 16, 20190Comments

Grumpy Old Man – Cricket World Cup 2019

I'm writing this after watching England beat New Zealand in a thrilling Super Over finale to this great tournament staged here in the UK. After soundly thrashing New Zealand in

July 9, 20190Comments

Grumpy Old Man – Travelling By Train

Since moving to the “sticks”, I travel to work a couple of mornings a weeks by the local commuter train as it is as quick as driving in and costs

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