‘January, sick and tired you’ve been hanging on me’. So sang Scottish pop warblers Pilot back in the 70s, and I know how they felt.
The festive season is over and done, and the long slide through the year’s most miserable month begins. It’s a procession of dismal, dreary, dank days, each one of which gives way to a long, dark, cold night. There’s pissing rain and sleet, bitter wind and gales, snow, fog and ice. There are freezing hands, feet, noses and ears. Don’t forget coughs, colds and flu. It’s a cornucopia of delights.
And yet there are those who’ll tell you how much they like this time of year; ‘oooh, I love to draw the curtains, make a big pot of tea, and snuggle down in front of the fire to watch Emmerdale and Corrie’.
As the wife would say, ‘get tae fuck’. I can feel a bad attack of SAD creeping over me like a suffocating blanket. If I was a bear, I’d be hibernating for six months. The winter sucks. That goes double for January.
Nominated by : Ron Knee
Who was it that sang ‘January February’?
Was it Barbara Dixon?
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It was indeed Barbara Dickson.
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Talking of impending Doom.
Dave apparently, is on a roll
BBC News – Laura Kuenssberg: Can Green leader Zack Polanski become a serious player? – BBC News
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And Dave, ooops Zac wants GB back in this fucking MARXIST controlled blob..!
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/brexit-pages-rules-eu-leave
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January is indeed shit but I hate February even more…
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January is like the Monday of the year. I’ve always hated Tuesdays more, so tend to agree with you.
Roll on Spring!
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Finished work at dinnertime.
The snowdrops are starting to come out.
Daffodils coming out.
Sat with me boots off
Dog snoring
Watching kidnapped
Starring Michael Caine a childhood favourite,
Big fleece blanket over me
And corned beef hash in the oven.
3 tins of John smith smooth bitter for pudding.
Its a fine life!
January cant beat me!
I took it by the scruff of the neck and made it yeild.
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Ps
Kidnapped also stars the sublime Donald Pleasance a actor who ive enjoyed in every role ive seen him in.
Donald pleasance flew 60+ raids during WW2 against ze Germans.
In a Lancaster bomber.
He was shot down and taken as a prisoner of war.
In the Great Escape (in which he stars)
He offered the director advice in. Which he was told
” to keep his opinions to himself”
Till someone on set told the direcror Donald was actually in a german POW camp not just some luvvie.
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Pleasance played the murderer in one of the Columbo films. A wine connoisseur as I recall. He dropped himself in it when the one eyed lieutenant set him up using a corked bottle of red. Which Pleasance hautily referred to as “liquid filth”. 😂
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Your right mr Bongo.
One of my favourites.
“any port in a storm”
As colombo is taking him in under arrest he lets him have a bottle of wine on the way there.
😁
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I’d like the winters in this country to become colder and harsher for a while. Full on blizzards like we had in the 1960s, lasting until May. Snow piled up as high as lorries and razor sharp gales that cause frost bite. None of this dribbly, mild rainy crap.
In the early 70s, it was all the rage for scientists to forecast a new age of Global Freezing. Ah, how fashions come and go!
“For the memoryyyy of a lifetime, call Rekall, Rekaaa’al, Rekall!
Mainly in the hope that it might drive out a lot of the desert and jungle scum, back to their warmer climes. And deter new ones from coming here. Shitheads like Deliveroo will go bust. The wind turbines will grind to a halt and the solar panels will be useless – net zero will be finished off once and for all. Our economy will be fucked and a new paradigm will emerge. We will be toasty by our wood burner, whilst others will freeze to death. I’ll laugh.
One can but dream.
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Hunting ethnics on the snowdrifts,
With a crossbow and pack of dogs.
Sheer magic.
Also a reason to break out my sheepskin undercrackers.
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