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With world wars on my mind, clearly, I've been working my way through them yet again and am still fascinated by what a beautiful writer he was and how well he describes the real experience of soldiering: lots of fannying around, idiot officers, prolonged periods of horror, fear and loss, interspersed with lots of surreal silliness and 'squaddie' humour. Probably the best set of war memoirs I've ever read; proper fly-on-the-wall stuff, albeit tweaked a little as he admits.
Yes, the language is (ahem) of its time but I'm intelligent enough not to get all flouncy about that. If anything, it's more real because of it.
The way he describes his descent into shell shock and depression is beautifully done and his descriptions of the other characters, including a farting, chattering Welshman doing a comedy shaving routine who later goes on to be his fellow Goon Harry Secombe is terrific.
There is one clip on Pathe News, on YouTube, of the Bill Hall Trio, his first postwar act, from 1947 and you can see precisely where he was going in five years' time.
Excellent stuff: seek them out if you haven't already.
Reading the post on here about certain longer-serving players' days being numbered, just out of interest I had a look where we were four years ago, in 2021. OTD a 3-2 home defeat to Swindon in L1.
Line-up was:
Cornell Chambers Woolfenden McGuinness Ward Huws Dozzell Judge Dobra Drinan
Just had a delivery from a lovely chap in a white van, from a small business I’d placed an order with. Bearing in mind that my area is currently experiencing 70mph+ winds thanks to #stormdarragh I thought it was a good time to pay tribute to the people who make it possible for small, home-based businesses like mine to thrive. Self-employed owner-drivers and post office workers who go out regardless to make sure our packages get delivered on time. It’s easy to criticise -there are plenty of reasons to do so and we’ve all done it. But would YOU fancy their job?
Incidentally, I'm aware there are other people in other jobs, so don't.
Anyway, my band's new single is out today on all your favourite platforms and probably the ones you don't like, too. Got two minutes (literally) of time free to spend listening to a bit of punky rock'n'roll from a band with a devilishly handsome and youthful singer/bassist? I suppose you could play this instead :-)
...after listening to me complaining about not being able to get a sniff of a ticket for anything, ever, anywhere this year (We both live in North Devon, which doesn't help) has just said to me:
"I only really get to about 10 games a year but I'll go to the Ipswich game; might be interesting to see them."
Oh, just re-read the title. Did I say "Mate"? >:-(
On the SWITFC WhatsApp group we were reminiscing about low attendance games and I remembered scraping a grim1-0 under Mick at Huish Park 10 years 2 months ago in front of less than 6K fans.
Horrible game but the BBC report makes interesting reading, especially the lineups...
"The Championship is the wealthiest non-top-flight football division in the world, the ninth-richest division in Europe,[2] and the 12th best-attended division in world football (with the second highest per-match attendance of any secondary league - after the German 2.Bundesliga)."
To think it's hardly any time at all since we played them at the top of that bl00dy hill in the blazing sun. Vegeburgers, party buses and diamond giveaways!
How times have changed for both clubs; but always remember that there, for the grace of God (or Gamechanger) go we.
So many responses, so little time. Although Major Blunt's a pretty decent sort of chap, I think...
"Of course, those disposed to dislike Blunt will not be mollified by any of this, nor by the fan-worship of Ed Sheeran (interviewed here) who as a young boy was radicalised by seeing Blunt support Elton John at a stadium gig in Ipswich."
My band, Landspeeder, is in the running to play a high profile local festival but we need people to nominate us as the band with the most namechecks gets the gig.
So would you mind following this link to their Facebook page and commenting LANDSPEEDER please?
That's it: no sign-up or anything required. Thanks xxx
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