

How to cast your vote in the Referendum
Will you decide using the facts? Have you selected your facts yet? How do you know they are correct? How do you know you have all the...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 22, 20164 min read


Is there any humour left in the country?
Can we no longer assume we will be met by some degree of civility when we say ‘I disagree’? Does anyone give sound reasons when asked...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 21, 20163 min read


The End is Nigh
The country groans in silent relief at the approaching final resolution of the Conservative blood feud that spilled onto the streets and...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 20, 20163 min read


Astronauts vote Spexit
Astronauts on board the orbiting space station voted in a Referendum to cut themselves off from planet earth and set up alliances and...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 18, 20162 min read


What a Week - Bad News Week
The news this week was grim. Mass murder in Orlando, the murder of a French police couple at their home, the murder of MP Mrs Jo Cox in...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 17, 20164 min read


Academy Gold - the Midas Touch
Bludger, Hemp and Scruttle Educationalist Consulters Confrontation and Litigation Specialists Custodial Towers Bull Ring, Birmingham...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 15, 20163 min read


Writing Flights of Fancy
I was surprised by the overwhelming interest from my four readers in the activities of Ethelred from Birkenhead. Those of you keeping up with the fast pace of this blog will remember him from last week. He does not influence the mighty writing thrust of this blog. To be honest, he struggles with the writing requirements of the correspondence writing programme on which I am studying stuff. His lack of writing talent holds him back but he is more hamstrung by the onerous demand
GreenGoalie1
Jun 13, 20163 min read


What a Week – Books, Buses and Boos
Literary Meeting – Strawberry Writers Club It was a great delight this week to meet up with those literary giants Raj and Rose. To count...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 10, 20164 min read


Funeral Plans - Pay Now Go Later
I don’t want the Pope to preside at my funeral. I have nothing against the man personally and I am sure he would say heartfelt words. Can you imagine the fuss if he turned up? The parking would be a nightmare. Funerals are on my mind. As a rewired retired person I receive invitations to join funeral clubs and pay now for what I want done after I have gone. For obvious reasons, they advocate a pay-now-go-later finance scheme. The application process for membership has all th
Ted Dunphy
Jun 8, 20163 min read


British outraged by warm Bank Holiday weather
Twenty-seven clairvoyants around the country blamed the unusually warm weather last Bank Holiday weekend on the French and Belgians with...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 8, 20164 min read


Writing Chronicles – GreenGoalie1
Two people wrote in to complain that I am not a real person and therefore I should not be writing stuff. Far be it from me to evade an...
GreenGoalie1
Jun 8, 20164 min read


Academy: go for gold
Bludger, Hemp and Scruttle Educationalist Consulters Confrontation and Litigation Specialists Custodial Towers Bull Ring, Birmingham...
Ted Dunphy
Jun 1, 20163 min read


Writing Chronicles – 30th May 2016
My name is GreenGoalie1. That is what writers call a pseudo-name, or something sounding like that. It is not my real name. No one is sure...
GreenGoalie1
May 30, 20164 min read


Going Live – Jane the Alchemist
I met an ageing Maori woman at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in New Zealand a few years ago. We were sitting on a bench at the spot where...
Ted Dunphy
May 27, 20164 min read


























