Not a rant about Gaza or domestic bills, or indeed much of a rant at all, still it fills the time on a blustery Sunday Morn.
Imagine the surprise here at 'Dennypoos Acres' when, having given the domestic staff the day off, one finds oneself to be newspaper less. If you can, all well and good, your sympathy does you great credit but solves not the newspaper problem. Being not a man without a certain amount of resolve, I decided to brave yesterdays blustery conditions and get the damn thing myself. Suitably togged up as if for an Arctic expedition I sallied forth to the local purveyor of crisps, black-jacks, overpriced milk and newspapers.
Can I find a copy of 'The Independent' or even 'The Guardian'? No way Jose as they say down here. Mirror, Star, something called The Sport, which featured many a buxom wench in various states of undress,and 'The Daily Mail'.
I settled on 'The Mail'. Do not assume that I follow their editorial viewpoint just because I am of a certain age, educational standard and whatnot, no indeed the opposite is true but one likes to see life from the other side as twere. There's a decent TV mag and a good section for the Gee-Gees. Now to the point of this convoluted blog;
In the magazine there is to be found an article by a 'Rebecca Hartley' about Amanda Donohoe. In and of itself no bad thing but in reading it, ( whilst filling in time between the 1.05 and the 1.40 at Ascot) I found a couple of things that annoyed me.
Ms. Dononoe, seen below:
Whilst relating details of her time together with Adam Ant, seen above:
Kept on referring to him as Adam, whereas he is called Stuart Lesiie Goddard. Perhaps, even though she moved in with him when she was only 16, she never knew his real name? I think not. Perhaps she referred to him as Stuart in the interview and Rebecca changed it for the convenience of her readers? Who knows, but irritating nonethelessless. Also, the good old Anglo-Saxon 'Arse' became a*+* and 'Bloody' became b*+*dy. So what is this all about?
This is the language of the playground, and an early year-group as well.
It must be that the world has changed much since I last read this rag and perhaps retired colonels have stopped talking about the fact that the bloody government should get of it's arse and do something about the wogs stealing all our jobs. One wonders as to The Mail's demographic.
Dennypoos...............three winners and a couple of placed in yesterdays metings.