Family Life

Who’s the Man?

Monday, 17 May 2010

The BBC certainly know how to make the most of a franchise. On top of all the other merchandisel, Dr Who is going on tour in the Authumn. There will be an extravaganza of pyrotechnics starting in WWII and ending in a spectacular battle. On show will be Daleks, Oods, Cybermen and Weeping Angels and [...]

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Cache Dash

Sunday, 9 May 2010

My idea of fresh air and fun is to open the windows and then settle down to watch a game of footie or cricket on the box. Mrs P is the outdoor type in the Parrot household and regularly takes long walks with the dog, and I mean proper walks measured in miles rather than [...]

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Become a Lunatic

Wednesday, 19 March 2008

It goes without saying that when someone dies there is a hole left behind. Especially when you thought that someone would live forever. In this case, the once partner of my late father-in-law. No names, no pack-drill, just a love of life. As witnessed by this non-PC lyric. It has a tune and a song, [...]

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Synchronisity

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

I’m a great believer in happenstance, those moments in time and space that seem perfectly choreographed and just meant to happen. Or synchronicity as Jung would have it, but it really does happen. Sometimes fictional, as in The Eagle Has Landed, and often the factual and mundane. Take our hostess trolley. We’ve had it for [...]

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The Digi Thing

Friday, 1 February 2008

I’m taking a risk here by owning up to reading this article. (My name is Shooting Parrots and I am a Daily Mail reader.) Embarrassment aside, the nub and gist of the piece was that digital radio is headed the way of Betamax and Stereo 8 to be consigned to the dustier corners of technology/marketing [...]

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Play up Pompey, Pompey play up

Thursday, 31 January 2008

Me and Mrs P were lucky enough to get two tickets for the Portsmouth game at Old Trafford last night. We usually sit high up in the North Stand, but we found ourselves quite low down in the South Stand towards the old Scoreboard End which gave us a terrific view of that goal. I’ve [...]

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Spring Awakening?

Wednesday, 2 January 2008

When we took the dog for a walk at Compstall yesterday, I also had my camera for company, something I should do more often. It may or may not be global warming, but all the signs were there that Spring was around the corner. Birds twittering in the trees, ducks and drakes courting on the [...]

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Inspired

Sunday, 30 December 2007

Phew, another year nearly over and another Christmas survived. Well more than that really. It has been really chilled and enjoyable, no cross words to speak and, as they say, any Christmas you walk away from is a good one. And if I’ve been quiet lately, blame the prezzies, or rather prezzie — the boxed [...]

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Caught in a Draft

Monday, 15 October 2007

It is 20 years since Michael Fish‘s infamous quote on tv the evening before the country was lashed by storms: “Earlier on today apparently,” he began, “a woman rang the BBC and said she had heard that there was a hurricane on the way.”Well if you are watching, don’t worry there isn’t,”

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