This week the subject of my Radio Merseyside day trips as soundman for Monty Lister takes us to Tromso in Norway for one of his many travelogues......Tromso (pronounced Trumsa) is the most northerly town on the planet so needless to say it was a bit nippy....around minus 30 degrees.....the object was to see the northern lights as you can't get any closer to them than Tromso.....we left Speke airport in Liverpool around 6.30 in the morning and arrived in Tromso at about 9 o'clock then on to a coa...
Jun 01, 2021
When I worked on Radio Merseyside with Monty Lister there was a local travel company who organised DAY trips to various destinations abroad....where the plane would take off from Speke Airport in Liverpool at about 6 or 7 in the morning and get back about 10 at night.....Monty would arrange a free ticket for both of us in exchange for a half hour travelogue which he broadcast on his Sunday Morning programme....he would describe the tour as we did it and I was his soundman.........one of our many...
May 25, 2021
Firstly I would like to discuss the postage system in this country...which is a joke...a second class letter now costs 65p to post (which in old money is 13 shillings)....BUT what a lot of people don't realise is there are TWO types of second class letters which go by size........ O.K. I feel better now.......the song this week is from an album I composed called DooWop Days and is available from my website...the tracks take you back to the golden days of doowop music ....this track is a tribute ...
May 18, 2021
The song this week is from one of my albums entitled "DooWop Days" which can be obtained from my website and can be streamed from the internet.....the song is a tribute to a pop star who is sadly no longer with us....Bobby Vee........I had the pleasure of opening his show on two occasions and he was the nicest guy you could possibly meet....we hit it off straight away and he was a delight....so here it is "The Bobby Vee Song" ............Strawberry Field in Liverpool where...and I quote..."John ...
May 13, 2021
Forget the success of the vaccine rollout which has put this country ahead of everywhere else...there is obviously a far worse crisis....Boris is being accused of decorating his flat and NOT PAYING FOR IT...and he is being accused of making a hurtful statement about the economy....which nobody seems to have actually heard....this is the level the opposition party have to resort to in order to look like they are actually doing SOMETHING....what a bunch of no marks.....still I suppose it gives the...
May 04, 2021
The BBC are still getting slated over the blanket coverage of the royal funeral....and Nicholas Witchell is taking a lot of stick with his reading of the "body language" between William and Harry in an attempt to invent news... I always watch a bit of TV before I go to sleep as I find it helps me nod off......especially "Match of The Day" on Saturday nights with the recorded crowds....by the time we get to the pundits I am away.....but last Friday there was nothing worth watching so I thought I ...
Apr 27, 2021
The song this week has a story to it....I was asked to write it for a bloke in Birmingham who was going to put a huge country and western show show on and bring stars over from the States and have rodeos etc etc.....his name was Brian "Sundance" Brooks and he had a shop which sold cowboy gear called "Urban Cowboy"....as the cowboy thing was big in the midlands....I was commissioned to write and record the song and put it on vinyl with his name as the singer (as he couldn't sing).....I went down ...
Apr 20, 2021
On the subject of TV sports coverage ... I am still recovering from the excitement of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race....I don't think...I'm afraid I fail to see the point of this so called sporting event which is broadcast for a whole afternoon ....who cares?....it has to be the most boring event in sport....closely followed by horse racing....I'm sure lots of people watch it - but I don't know ANYONE that does...it's purely for those who wander into the bookies and lose their cash as they h...
Apr 13, 2021
The standard of TV is becoming a joke......there are some decent programmes but you behave to search for them by skilfully trying to dodge the cookery programmes or Ant and Dec.....and the talentless Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton with their selection of stars of stage screen and scrapheap....who they "chat" to about their latest book,play or comeback and have to roar laughing at nothing....then we have multi millionaire Gary Linacre sitting with a couple of football "pundits"discussing a footb...
Apr 07, 2021
As Don and his English buddies prepare to knock out a few divots on their favourite fairways Welsh beauty spots were rammed with visitors this weekend as the country lead the UK out of lockdown in Wales when the 'stay local' requirement was dropped on Saturday. Unrestricted travel within Welsh borders is now permitted, self-contained holiday accommodation spots - including several hotels, cottages and B&Bs - can reopen their doors and groups of six from two different households can meet up o...
Mar 29, 2021
This week we had a few technological problems so we worked differently. We discussed the violent protest in Britain against the right to protest non-violently. You couldn't write the script. We developed ideas of what's really behind such nonsense before moving to mums waitingoutside schools in the morning-some of them in curlers and nightwear! What an example for their offspring. We then discussed GOATS and Elephant's trunks before looking back at Don's song .Roll us yer hat Uncle Stan.
Mar 23, 2021
The pandemic has revealed a lot about the human race....it has illustrated how kind and caring some people can be and how stupid and selfish others can be.......it is assumed we are all intellectually the same but as I have always said we are still evolving...some a lot slower than others.....Christmas was the perfect example where the population are "allowed" to have family gatherings if they are sensible...so they do because they are told they can....and what do we get - another serious outbre...
Mar 15, 2021
.....and still they pull down statues and meet up for rave parties and charge around with their stupid pointless protests....which does make you wonder about university education....seems to me it makes these students THINK they are clever....the only purpose these idiots are achieving is to spread this virus and prolong the epidemic but they don't seem to see that.....and amongst all this nonsense we have some piece of manure walking into a park and stabbing people....which we now know was a li...
Jun 24, 2020
.....and we have gained some new expressions each day....the latest is Priti Patel has been accused on "gas lighting"...whatever that means but it fits in nicely with "pandemic"...."Spike"...."Social distancing"...."2 metre rule"....I wonder who has the job of thinking these words up "Hey George...we need another saying for today"...."Yeah O.K.....how about SELF ISOLATION?"
Jun 17, 2020
Needless to say the news is swamped with the police brutal killing of George Floyd in America....which has created an excuse for protesters around the world to rise up and scream racism.....as an ordinary bloke who is not racist in any way and who has respected the law all my life,I watch the proceedings with sheer disbelief..
Jun 10, 2020
Piers Morgan is back in the morning after a welcome break...welcome for us that is.......and just when we have had enough of Dominic Cummings off goes Piers ranting on about him which serves no purpose except to get everyone's back up again...MOVE ON PLEASE!!....we heard all this last week and we have had enough....the bottom line is we are a nation of followers as I have said for years and as such we need to be led and sadly we don't seem to have anyone capable of leading...
Jun 03, 2020
The media plus the general public have reached a new low....Dominic Cummings who is our P.M.s right hand man has disgraced himself...at least he has according to the papers and the TV news who have created an uproar in our population of sheep....he travelled 250 miles from London to Durham because he was worried about the health of his four year old kiddie which has caused over the top outrage....because he was supposedly disobeying the lockdown situation....so out come the journalists from unde...
May 27, 2020
There were protests planned around the country by The Freedom Party who are a bunch of boneheads who regard the lockdown as "illegal"....fortunately common sense prevailed and the police sorted it....one of the venues was supposed to be at Birkenhead Park which is local to me....it didn't happen but there was a gathering in Hyde Park in London where arrests were made....one culprit was Jeremy Corbyn's brother....so idiots must run in that family.........it's hard to understand what goes on in th...
May 20, 2020
Boris Johnson's wonderful speech to the country has not gone down too well....personally it made no sense to me at all....it is total confusion....I fail to see the difference between going into a supermarket and keeping away from other people or going for a walk in a park and keeping away from other people....the key is KEEPING AWAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE.....not that difficult to comprehend....we seem to be so far behind everyone else....so now they are going to ease up on the lockdown so idiots wi...
May 13, 2020
Still wondering what's going on regarding our lockdown situation.....they talk about the over 70s as if we were a bunch of old doderies....welcome to the scrapheap.....we have been fortunate in as much as we can go out for daily exercise which does make a difference and the delivery firms do a fantastic job saving us having to go to the shops....it must be hard for those who are not on the internet and can't order stuff.....I believe you can now go out for a bit of exercise?..
May 07, 2020
The virus situation is getting pretty desperate....and we have politicians prattling on about what might "possibly" happen....I know it's a new situation we are in but they don't seem to have a clue.....we can only go out to exercise or get food or medicine yet planes are landing at airports with passengers from countries where the virus is rife...and they just swarm off and into the country....not to mention the arguments as to whether we should wear masks.....apparently this country's self iso...
Apr 29, 2020
We are still in lockdown and most people seem to have got the message....but there's always the odd one....you know the type....shaved head,tattoos and T-shirt plus the real tough guy walk....they don't seem to grasp that no matter how hard you think you are this virus doesn't really care.....they had some oaf in America announcing that no-one tells HIM what to do....and all this is a hoax....not a lot of hope really......but I do feel sorry for those who are not computer literate....getting on-...
Apr 22, 2020
The lockdown continues and the virus continues to seriously affect the nation.....at least the majority of people obeyed the rules over the Easter holiday...with of course the usual morons who don't think it applies to them....but it's hard to see where this will end...the number of casualties continues to rise so our "isolation" doesn't seem to be having much effect......and of course all the amateur politicians are wading in on Facebook with their pointless criticisms of the Government....whic...
Apr 15, 2020
We are still in self isolation which should make a lot of people realise not to take so much for granted when this is all over....it's strange situation to be in as you well know....but at least we can go out for a bit of exercise and the television programmes are so bad I don't bother buying the weekly TV magazine...no point.....and we have a new Labour leader...Sir Kier Starmer... who is a barrister and apparently very well off...so needless to say he is getting a lot of stick.....and because ...
Apr 08, 2020
The virus is still filling the news and now the government are being criticised for not acting sooner....which doesn't help the situation....as usual those who sit back and look for someone to blame should perhaps get off their arses and actually DO something constructive....it's supporters we need not critics....it's something we have never experienced and it might...just might....get a message home into some of the empty headed morons who are wandering around....and now old Boris has got the v...
Apr 01, 2020
Ttousands decided to walk up Snowdon in Wales at the weekend while others piled into the parks....which just about sums up the mentality of our nation...not to mention the panic buying in supermarkets.....so now we are in some sort of "lockdown"......and with the great variety of intellects this has naturally caused an uproar with questions being fired at politicians on TV all starting with "What do I do if....".....it is a perfect display of the necessity for most of our population to require l...
Mar 25, 2020
With the coronavirus flooding the news every day we have a new word which is utilised by every news presenter..."Lockdown"...which I always thought applied to prisons and American movies.....what is wrong with "quarantine" or is that too English?....we are being infiltrated with Americanisms such as "go figure"..."24/7"...."high 5"....and worst of all "MOM"....it's MUM!!!....this is England not Dodge City....it's bad enough having to listen to the misuse of our language by third rate soap stars ...
Mar 18, 2020
The media are still trying to scare everyone announcing more numbers each day of those contacting the corona virus...what we are not told is how many have actually recovered....and this has caused our nation of sheep to panic buy toilet rolls and hand sanitisers ... in case we all have to lock ourselves in our houses....there have been THREE fatalities where the people involved sadly had health problems beforehand...and 300 of us have contacted the disease.......so the other 68 million of us mus...
Mar 12, 2020
The corona virus has dominated the news.....we now have 40 cases in this country and we are being told to "self isolate" if we don't feel well....especially if we have just come back from Italy or China.....so the media have done their job by creating a panic....so supplies of anti bacteria hand cream etc have run out....plus the price of some of these cures has strangely gone up....maybe I'm wrong but 40 people is hardly a major epidemic?.....but there you go....but we can all be assured our wo...
Mar 04, 2020
The Coronavirus has been headlining the news with our local hospital in Wirral being featured and the floods which get worse in certain parts of the country so the media has no problem filling their news programmes....so if you want to be depressed watch the news..
Feb 26, 2020
