Category Archive: LIFE
Stars in the Drug Show
Who can tell the honest score When no-one knows or can be sure That the ball in the net / an incomplete pass Or the bungled catch / upon the grass Weren’t planned? Should you work the mobile phone, With your team well in the zone Where Olympic pride / the bikes they ride Head for the lowlands, on a peptide Of flasks, all banned? We’re all ‘stars in the drug show’ now, We made it happen – we showed them how By greasing on our couches, betting And buying all they sold us, letting Them jab their engorged hand.
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10 Types of People We Hate
Photo of Mr Vox by Ricardo Stuckert
Drivers who decide at the last moment to turn right across traffic. People who dither on pavements. People in our way in general. People who buy a big dog and never walk it. ‘Artists’ who can’t draw.. [Like Roger Moore’s character in North Sea Hijack] “I like cats…and I don’t much like people who don’t.” Bono (except when he sings “One” or “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”). People who have houses with wooden floors that can’t be trodden on with high heels. It’s a FLOOR. Religious fanatics and atheist fanatics. Bono.
Continue Reading →Daphne Gum – A Celebration
Yesterday, on the eve of her 100th birthday, TVC was honoured to join Daphne Gum MBE OA and family in a sumptuous afternoon tea celebration. Today, the 24th January 2016, Miss Gum is celebrating this milestone with friends in her care facility. Miss Gum is acknowledged world-wide for her contribution to the welfare and education of children, particularly children with cerebral palsy. To us she is Auntie Daphne, a staunch, cheerful and purposeful influence in our lives. To read more about this pioneering woman, see Lesley’s updated Wikipedia article, “Daphne Lorraine Gum” go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Lorraine_Gum Note: Sadly, Daphne Gum passed away on 28 February 2017. She touched and enlivened a…
Continue Reading →10 Fashion Statements We Hate
For a start, Pharrell William’s hat. Look at it, just look at it. Hurts, doesn’t it?
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