Last night was a historic day for British politics, The prime minister lost her vote on the deal she has been working on with the EU, which means at the moment we are heading for a no deal situation.
Is a no deal a problem, depends who you are, several car manufacturers supported the PMs deal saying it would allow them to continue as they are now, trading with the EU so manufacturers would be happy, however, that's now not going to happen, as I type we are still going to leave with a no deal, what next, no one really knows, but I don't think it would be the end of the world, we would struggle for a year or two, but at the end we would be climbing the ladder to be being a successful and power country once again.  

I have always said that we are an island and we have always led the way, we saved most of he world from speaking German, the fact that are trying to rule the world again through the backdoor of the EU I find very distasteful.  We will survive, we are a race of fighters and survivors, Great Britain will be great again, once we get rid of Scotland who just happen to be led by a septic dwarf hell bent on independence, great, let them have it on one condition, once they have gone they can't come crawling back when the get fucked by the rest of the world, especially the EU who really want nothing to do with them.

So, whats next, tonight is the is the Little Red Turd's vote of no confidence in the Government, I think the PM will survive this and TLRT will then have to step down as leader of the wining reds, about time too, he's fucking useless as an MP and a leader of a party.  Then where do we go, I hear on the radio this morning that MPs want to have a say in what we put into the Exit Agreement, are all those who voted NO last night completely deaf and stupid or just plain ignorant of the facts, the EU has already said on several occasions and said it again after the vote that they are not budging, and will make no more concessions, if they think that the EU will panic at the last moment they are living in cloud Cuckoo, it ain't gonna happen.

As you can see from this post I have very strong views on Brexit, what ever happens eventually I think we need to get out or we will waste money and continue to have to live by their rules, no thanks, make Britain great again, fight for your rights and your country, done let the reds lead us into a pit again where we have to spend another 10 years climbing out and recovering from thier very bad leadership and management.

​Time for tea.

Another Christmas and another New Year over, and I am pleased it's over, every year we spend so much on food, drink and giving presents that come the end of January we are all struggling with money, but not for me this year.
I don't do Christmas really, no decorations, no lights nothing, I never even sent a card this year, I got a few but mainly from family, so no need to reply with a card as they all know i don't do Christmas.
The only good thing about the season of good will, LOL, is that I get a couple of weeks off work to do whatever I want to do, so I spent most of my time in my shed playing with wood and experimenting with new ideas.

Anyway, I did nothing of real interest to anyone, so I think i will make this a very short post, so, Happy new year to all my followers.

​Enough.

SO I was watching the news yesterday (Christmas Eve) when a news report came on talking about a local farm in old Hurst Cambridgeshire that had 150 turkeys plus beef, lamb and pork stolen.
Now, I have been there several times (I would recommend their Pork Pies, they are amazing) and I have noticed that they have cameras all over the place, so how someone gets a large amount of meat out of a farm like that is in my mind a little odd?
Lets look at this a little more closely, 150 big birds is going to take up a lot of space, not the sort of thing you can hide in the back of a Mini, plus all the other meats, so I think you would need at least a large van, and to have them stolen in the early hours of Christmas eve means that they have really only 1 day to get rid of the birds, so I would suggest that the birds were on sale in a market somewhere well away from Cambridgeshire, maybe even a lay-by on a A road somewhere?
I can remember stopping at a lay-by in Hertfordshire once and a van was selling obviously poached rabbits, pheasants and ducks, when a police car pulled in the van took off really fast sharply followed by the cops, so maybe on an A road near you you could have got a cheap bird as you can in my local town, but thats another story, so where the hell are all the birds?  My guess is that they had it all sorted before this week, thinking like a cop I think that they may have even been doing house to house leaflet drops offering birds for Xmas, then nicking and delivering on Xmas eve, no one would suspect anything especially if its in a large town or city like Manchester or Birmingham?
So the farm 'Johnson's of Old Hurst' is down £20,000, yep that's right £20,000, thats £135 a bird? Knowing the farm I know the birds would start at about £50 for a small to medium sized one, so the rest must have been in beef and lamb?
Sad to hear this story in the season of good will, which is why I will be happy to pay a little more for my meats in January and spend my hard earned cash at Johnson's in support of the farm, having said that I heard that they have a turnover of at least 1 Million pounds a year.

So, it's Christmas day, all thats left for me to say is 'Bah Humbug and enjoy your Christmas'

So what do all the above have in common?  We all HATE CHRISTMAS, yeah, that's right, I hate Xmas, why?  Because I just can't be doing with it, at the moment at work everyone is getting excited about the 25th, I don't see why, its just another day as far as I am concerned, I believe that this time was related to religion and the birth of Jesus, so what happened, I bet it was a big shop owner that came up with Xmas as a commercial idea, I bet he thought, lets get the people to spend money that they can't really afford to boost my coffers?  Tell me I'm wrong, I'm not, its all about the MONEY, no one gives a shit about the religious link, even those who say they are religious get stuck into turkey and buy and receiving gifts, why?  And where did eating turkeys at Xmas come from, probably someone who had a bad time with a turkey somewhere. 

Come on Christmas is CRAP no matter which way you look at it, families who hate each other get together and have fights, most divorces are because of Xmas, and then there's the drunken idiots, you got to love a young women so pissed she can't stand up and ends up on the street with her legs and arse in the air for people with mobile phones to take photos and post them on Facebook.
People just use Xmas as an excuse to get as pissed as possible and eat as much as they can so they can try and loose the weight they have put on in the New Year.

So what will I be doing at Xmas, the same as everyone else, but I will have my Bah Humbug hat on throughout the 2 days of hell, we wont have turkey, it will be Pork, Beef and Ham, I will give my son loads of presents and in return i will get some socks, no matter how many time I tell him no presents for me, he has to buy something.  As for my partner/girlfriend, she want beauty products 'you can;'t make a silk purse etc' but she will try, and I will get some crap that she want's me to have, not what I want, but what she says I need, For Fucks Sake, I don't need another cardigan or shirt or scarf, get me a voucher for the local brothel, I would be a lot happier.

At work they have already started getting ready by the secret Santa shit they do every year, I told them to go fuck their selves, I am the wrong person to be part of that load of bollocks, at the moment they are all being sickly sweet to each other in the hope they get something decent, I did think I should take part and get a pigs trotter for whoever I got from the list, that would have been interesting.  All the desks have Xmas lights on them and decorations and trees are everywhere, they are calling me a grumpy git, well there ya go, they finally got the message, thank fuck for that.

Anyway, enough I say, I am off to my friends house, Eb, and his little green friend, we will have a few glasses of fine port, some cheese and grapes and chat about how to stop Xmas next year.

​Happy Not Xmas.

WORK
If you are my age you will probably remember the adverts for Mars bars? It went like this, 'A Mars a day helps you work rest and play', with a catchy little tune to go with it, and basically the thing was so full of sugar you would be so hyper that it did actually do what it said on the wrapper, it also gave you heart problems, diabetes, obesity and rotting teeth.  So, why do I mention it, it's because I have been procrastinating with my self over my future, so lets start with work, I used to love my job as a lecturer, but know I hate it, I have a boss who is the bitch from hell and just wants to get rid of me but won't? Let me explain, my job title and role changed recently, I have talked about this before in my blogs, so I told HR and the BFH ('Bitch From Hell') that I was not happy with what they were doing, as they changed my job role and contract I asked them to make me redundant like my job was going to be, No they said, I could have Voluntary redundancy, but, not made redundant, they garbled on about the college policy of no redundancies etc, etc, anyway very long story short, I made a big thing out of it and tried to confront the Principle (CEO) he calls himself, but he refused to see me, so much for his open door policy, anyway, since then the offer of any kind of redundancy has been withdrawn, now the BFH is hell bent of getting rid of me, she just keeps making my life at the college miserable, making me attend courses that I don't need to etc.  I just think she needs a good hard fucking, tied to a bed then beaten with a leather paddle until her arse glows like a raging fire.
Anyway, enough of my fantasies, she just hates me, unfortunately she has no idea who she has picked a fight with, I am now going to switch things around and make her life hell, and yes I do have the ways and means of doing so.

REST
O what do I do to rest, basically I don't, I cant stop for a minute, I work up to 18 hours a day, I don't sleep and I get bored sitting down watch TV, I do watch TV but it's while I am doing something else like Ironing, or cleaning, rest is something that is lacking in my life, the Doctor says I should chill more by doing nothing, sit down with your headphones on and listen to music he says, I do that a lot, except the sitting bit I listen to my music while I am hoovering or working, you know what they say, There's no rest for the wicked and idle hands make mischief. I must of done something really wicked in a previous life, NO, I don't believe in reincarnation and all that bollocks.

PLAY
​I play when I have the time, which is not a lot, I make my guitars when i can, I love it, that's my play time if you like, then I play them, a little, but I do try, and of course there are my cunning plans ( Making more money, starting new companies etc), that to me is playing, also I have new toys I am about to play with and i will be producing video's and podcasts, when I get the time, and that's what life is all about, time. 

TIME
We only have a short time on the fantastic little rock we live on, at the moment we are desperately trying to fuck it up, polluting the seas and any and everything that we touch, we are removing valuable materials from under the ground, oil, coal, rare metals etc, we are now fracking, which is causing earth tremors, when do we stop, probably when the earth stops spinning and we all fall off into space.
However, moan over, lets talk about my time, I have had a reasonable life, met some amazing and beautiful people I have also met the scum of the earth and real evil bastards, but, I have set my own standards and passed these on to my son, I like to think I and honest and fair.  My time is nearly up, my health is not getting better and everyday is a struggle, but I am not giving up yet, I still have a bucket list that I need to complete and I hope to meet the one, the woman that understands me and loves me for who I am, not my money.  I think we waste a lot of time doing nothing, but maybe with the time I have left I will make it worth while.

Fucking hell that last paragraph is dark and deep, I need coffee, until next time.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, Lewis Hamilton has done it for the 5th time, what a great driver, we tend to overlook talents like this and apart from a 10 second sports news mention nothing, we just don’t give credit where it’s due sometimes, it annoys the fuck out of me, anyway, Congratulations Lewis on a wonderful achievement, here's to the next 2 world titles and hopefully you get the magic 8 world titles, I wish you luck young man.
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What the hell is going on with the weather, one minute I am in my string vest then wearing winter jumpers and coats?  Last week it was chilli but I would say brisk but not cold, last night it poured with rain and then the temperature dropped below freezing so I had to scrape solid ice off the car this morning before leaving for work, it would appear that we no longer have the slow changes between the seasons any more, I can remember as a kid that the seasons changed gradually, in the spring the flowers like daffs and crocuses would appear then came April with its showers, we knew summer was coming when the rain stopped, then summer would make its way in, flowers blooming after the ‘April Showers’ the 6 week summer holidays would be mostly dry and warm, never to hot except for 1976, then Autumn, my favourite time of year, amazing colours as the trees turned and the leaves fell, then slowly getting colder and by November a good chance of  snow for a couple of months, then we start all over again.  So what’s happened? Global Warming? Or, just the earth doing it’s natural thing, we know the poles are moving around so we will have to wait and see.
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The Budget, what can I say about that, it would appear at first glance that it’s progressive and going the right way, giving room for BREXIT when we finally leave the Europeans behind us, but listening to the radio this morning and that arsehole Corbin I worry what will happen to all the good work by the Conservatives if Labour get back in, the last time they run the country we ended up in so much shit and debt its taken this long to get back on track, if they get in the country will be plunged into a recession or worse for years.  I am not really a political animal and normally keep my thoughts to myself but I am seriously worried about a Labour Government.

Being PC, yeah I do mean Politically Correct, I am damn sure that what I am about to say will piss a lot of people off, so let’s go.
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I was talking to my son the other day and an advert came on the telly, it was a White woman, a Black guy and 2 mixed race kids, my son said that he was fed up with nearly all the ads now containing mixed race couples, I had not thought about it before but watched the next commercial break and he was right all the ads had mixed race couples?  Why?  Do White people not marry white people anymore and the same goes for the black/Asian community’s?  The problem is, in my view that we can’t talk about it openly and say how we feel, now, I do not consider myself a racist in anyway shape or form, my great grandmother was black, but I just see her as my Great Grandmother nothing else, however I do think that the country has gone PC mad, when we can’t say ‘Bah Bah Black sheep’ anymore something is wrong.  So is my son racist, no, not in the least but he is just getting fed up with PC being everywhere, take the LGBT community as an example, do I care what and who people think they are?  No, I don’t give a fuck, however when your born with a dick between your legs and when your asked what sex you are and the reply is ‘I haven’t made up my mind yet’ something is wrong mentally with that person, yeah, yeah, before you start shouting there are a very small number of people born with Dicks but are chemically a woman, I feel for those people as it’s a genuine issue, but they do have the option of a sex change operation, but just saying ‘I haven’t made up my mind’ is totally fucked up, and yes I am talking from experience from students filling in enrolment forms for college.  Both my son and I are involved in the film/TV industry, things have changed but the next time he works on a DVD cover he said he may change the colour of the people to grey, why grey, it's neutral, LOL, WTF, but come on If I was making a TV ad for say home insurance, it would be a white couple, or a Black/Asian couple, mixed race couples are a very small percentage, 9% of the population, so it's not really representative of whats really going on in the UK.
So, is the way we are bringing up our kids, no I think it’s the PC brigade and their you can’t say this you can’t say that, well I say ‘Fuck Off you twats’ I will say what I like and if you don’t like it, go fuck yourself, if you can and you if know what sex you are?

Which takes me onto Misogyny, yes I am a misogamist of sorts, I don’t hate women I love them, hell what’s not to like, but, do I believe that I should provide for my ‘Female’ partner, yes, do I think she should be at home cleaning, cooking me dinner and have my pipe and slippers ready for when I get home, yeah, I also think she should be in stockings and suspenders high heels and sexy lingerie, but that’s a personal preference.

So what's wrong with the paragraph above, well nothing really, let me break it down, like I said I love women, I really do believe that I should provide for my partner, but in return I think she should reciprocate by keeping the house clean, she has to live there as well don’t forget, so nothing wrong with that statement, should she be cooking me dinner, well that depends, I love cooking so most of the time, if I can I will cook for us, but most days I work 8am – 9pm so don’t  get home until 10pm, so it nice to have dinner ready and a glass of my favourite Bourbon ready, I don’t think that’s unreasonable, the Stockings etc is just my fetish so nothing to do with it really, but while in conversation at work I did say that I thought a woman’s place is in the home, tongue in cheek, my god, you would have thought I had murdered a small child and ate them, the tor-raid of abuse I got was incredible, now I am known a bit of a wind up and joker, so I was a little shocked, but once they took the bait I was away, it ended up with most of the guys saying to me after that they did believe that what I said was ok, but would not admit that to the women taking part in the conversation, however, I stuck to my guns and fought my corner, so I am now known as a Misogynistic Pig, I can live with that, but on a serious note are we now all too PC? Both my son and I believe we really are, however the LGBT community will die out if they don’t have sex with the opposite sex, Any Lesbians looking for sex, bring your partner and I will sort you both out?  Tresbians would be even better, that's 3 lesbians for those that don't know, The lesbian thing's a joke, a bad one but still a joke, lighten up people.

I can't believe its been 2 months since my last confession, or, post, anyway I have been so busy with the new term and year at work plus busy in the studio/shed making more guitars and stuff.

So, whats been happening? Well it's been hell at work with the management taking over the timetables and room bookings, guess what, they fucked it up BIG TIME, students without teachers, teachers without students, teachers with 3 lots of students and no room to teach in, think of any combination and they totally screwed up, it has taken the staff up until now to get most of it sorted as we have taken the reins again, we still have the odd glitch but we are almost there, when we did the rooms and timetables we had the odd double booking but we sorted out all the errors in the first week, which just goes to prove that the management here have no idea what the fuck they are doing.

​Which takes me to the second fuck up, we were told that we had to accept anyone that wanted to enrol, we fought hard not to do this but the Principal insisted that we taken anyone, his plan was simple, the government give us money for ever student enrolled, we were told after 6 weeks we can just remove them from the course, which has turned out to be the case, we now have a college full of numpties and complete idiots. You can't as we found out, that you can just throw someone off the course, there is a procedure that needs to be followed, like warnings, lots of them, then letters then meeting with the heads of faculty. 
If a student wants to appeal then it takes even longer, and once the parents get involved we can't get rid of anyone, so here we are with a college full of rejects from other colleges, that 70% have some sort of mental problem, so as teachers we are now screwed, we spend most of our time dealing with anxiety, depression and just about every problem a young adult can get.

So our job is changing, we are now expected to be shrinks, to be an ear for the little shits to cry into, well all I can say to that is 'Fuck that for a game of soldiers' what happened to a clip around the ear and being told to get on with it?  We molly coddle the little buggers to much, we treat them kid gloves, wiping away their tears etc, etc, I say NO, bitch slap the Little fuckers and see how they get on.

Anyway, now I have calmed down after 3 cups of coffee, I have been spending a lot of time in my studio/shed, my new guitar is starting to take shape, the body is finished and has had it's 5 coats of colour I have sanded it back to a semi-gloss for the artist who is going to create a custom work of art for the body, being a T-Type 'Telecaster' but I can't call it that due to copyright etc, then I can lay on the clear coat, I| am thinking about 6 coats should do it as its a 2 pack paint so should be fairly hard to damage.

Enough for today, watch this space, comments always appreciated.

Well it's back to work today, I have only been in 1 hour and the arse kissing and brown nosing has started, hence the title of this post.  Now I have never conformed or kissed anyones arse, that's just not my style, I say it as it is, if you don't like it then move on.

Sitting here watching 15 people all licking up to each other is interesting to say the least, the office here is probably no different to any other but we do have stereo types here, we have the young gun boss arse kisser, he volunteers for everything, I am sure if the boss asked him to clean the loos by licking them clean he would, he thinks that it will improve his chances of promotion, he will learn eventually. 

Then we have the office hottie, she's blonde. gorgeous and has a body that even I would lick, however, as every male member here in the office and outside are lusting after her I just prefer to watch them getting burnt by her as she rejects their advances but uses them for her own benefit. 

Then we have the office guru, this young man knows everything we don't about whats happening at the college, need to know something, go see this guy, he is also the office hot guy for the girls. 

Then theres the office pain in the arse, she's the biggest pain and most obstructive cow in the whole college, according to her, everyones out to get her, she is always over worked and can't help anyone out, it's me me me. 

​I think we have every type here with the rest, then theres me, the boss sees me as someone who is a big benefit to the team, but she also knows that I am more qualified to do her job than she is, so hates me with a passion, but has to put up with me, the rest see me as the grumpy old fart who they come to for advice and there private life issues, I prefer not to get involved with anyone, but sometimes it's unavoidable, so as you can guess I am not happy here at the moment with all the shit about my job role and pay etc, so I will just play my ace card this year, as they won't recognise my teaching certificate then when they ask me to produce paperwork for the courses that I usually do, this year my answer will be, Sorry I'm not qualified, its about to get interesting me thinks.

Watch this space.

Just a quick one, well done the Spurs in giving Man Utd a good thrashing.

Well it's back to work for me after 10 days holiday, so what did I do, well stayed at home as per usual, but finish both guitars I was building and started another, so not been idle, number 3 looks like it's gonna be a killer, then I would say that.
I was flicking around YouTube when I saw a concert of one of my idols Peter Frampton, this is the man responsible for me taking up guitar in the first place so he has a lot to answer for, LOL, the man is just amazing even today he just has me rocking.

As for work, if you read my last post, I still have no contract but I will be teaching this term while I decide what i want to do, I figured the best way to screw them is leave over the Christmas holidays, which means they don't have time to advertise or put someone in place, what about the kids I hear you shout, well they wont suffer as I am sure the rest of the media team will cover for me, well maybe.

So, back to my frampton concert, OOOh he's nowing doing 'I don't need no doctor from his Humble Pie days'.

I'm off, bye for now.

​A smiling and rocking Grumpy Old Man.

It's been a while since my last confession/blog, all sorts of things going on at the moment, so where to begin, well at the beginning I suppose.

About a month ago I received an email from the college saying that my role (Instructor) was being made redundant, now as an instructor I only need to support the kids and Lecture when required, which turned out to be 90% of the time.  So as they had to pay extra for the lecturing they can save money by making me a Lecturer, heres how, at my current pay scale which is at the top of it I earn £**.000 however because I will be placed on the lowest lecturing scale as this will be a new contract i would be £1,500.00 worse off?  When I mentioned this to them they replied yes but I had to remember that this was a money saving exercise, so I did what any self respecting human would do and told them to Fuck Off and make me redundant, to which they replied, this college has a no redundancy policy so they would find me a job with equivalent pay scale to my current role, that was 5 weeks ago, I return to work tomorrow after a 3 week break so I will see what happens.  The college is a complete and fucking shambles since the new Principle arrive, I am pretty sure he is playing with figures (money) that when he leaves, which he will soon, the shit will hit the fan as we discover his miss-dealings.  Anyway we shall wait and see.

OUCH

Yes my ouch moment, while I have been on holiday I have been doing all the things around the house/shed that I have been meaning to do, so with 3 weeks holiday I thought I would tackle the tasks, task 1, the double doors on my shed/log cabin/garage where catching at the top, so with plane in had I climbed the step ladder to the top about 8 feet so I was about 10 off the ground and started shaving off the top of the door, the next thing I know or remember is that the ladder has given way and I am falling backwards towards a concrete slab (shed foundations), the next thing I remember is a blinding flash of light and a pain at the back of my head.
I opened my eyes and saw the clear blue sky, not knowing how long I had been laying there I decided to wait a minute before attempting to get up.  Now if you have been following my blogs you will know that I had a broken neck and had plates and pins fitted just over 2 months ago, so I am lying in the warm or should I say scorching heat worried if I have damaged the neck again, so I gently run my hand around the back of my neck to see if there was any obvious problems, apart from some blood on the back of my head I thought I had escaped with very little injury.
So I tried to get up, OUCH, having landed flat on my back which took most of the fall and my head obviously hitting the ground, the pain in my back was to say the least "OUCH", I already have 3 vertebrae mis-aligned in my lower back giving me sciatica, so I thought better of it and just laid there for a few more minutes, I then picked up my phone which had fallen out of my pocket and was laying beside me a called my partner explaining that I needed some help as I had just fallen from the ladder.
Now, I know that the ladies here have to look good before leaving the house so that they get the attention they think they deserve, controversial, yeah, but true, anyway, about 30 minutes, yes half an hour later my partner arrives, I asked where the hell have you been, she answers that she had to do her hair and makeup and put on some clothes as she was in her jimjams when I called, WTF, she then started having a go at me for calling her as she was sending emails, if I could have I would have dragged her to the roof of the shed and thrown her off, so she helps me to my feet but I know I am in trouble, so she phones for an ambulance which arrives with a Paramedic in tow.  They check me over and take me to the local hospital for a CT and MRI because of the neck thing and now the back, about an hour later a Doctor comes to give me the news, my neck is fine, the graze on my head is minor, but I do have a minor concussion but my lower back is fucked, I tell him about my previous problems and he said that the fall had not helped but I was OK to go, he prescribed some pain killers which I already have and tells me to go home and rest, if I start to feel sick or pass out to come back.  So with my soon to be ex-partner at home sending more emails to her friends I phone for a cab and make my way home.  Update, My head and neck are fine but my back is definitely screwed.

About a week after the skydiving incident, I climb a ladder again, this time 20 feet to attached a 30 foot antenna to the house, all goes well this time and I am soon chatting to people from Europe, however my aim is to conquer the world, radio wise that is.
SO my new 80 foot antenna arrived this morning, so It's up the ladder again at the weekend, watch this space.