Andy's Blog - Gone Further

There seems to be more and more of a furore surrounding Ringo Starr’s recent appearence on Jonathan Ross. For those that missed it: In a nutshell he was asked if he missed Liverpool. Ringo laughed and said, “No.” This has caused a bit of a stir amongst the Bin Dippers. It’s hardly surprising as everything [...]

It was about time we had another good session and this Saturday gave us the perfect opportunity, for 26 January is Australia Day. It all began, for us at least, two years ago whilst on holiday in Whistler. Canada has more generous holiday visa laws than America and routinely grants 6 month visas. This means [...]

The highlight of the week was me finding (temporary) employment. It began in October when my old colleague at Pleasureland, Anya, found me on Facebook; we chewed the fat and I discovered she is now a lecturer at Liverpool Hope University teaching the future Lord Chief Justices of this world in Travel & Tourism management [...]

Joseph Kevin Keegan, born 14 February 1951 in Doncaster. This chap was, by all accounts because I’m too young to remember, one of the greatest players this country has ever produced. In 5 seasons at Liverpool he won 3 league titles, 2 UEFA cups, the FA Cup and a European Cup. That’s about the same [...]

I came across this today and it gives an insight into the life of a solicitor. It doesn’t depict the hell you go through, more the kind of person you need to be if you’re going to get through 45 years of it without killing yourself. Click here: Colouring Book for Lawyers. There’s 14 pages [...]

Asda were offering ‘flu jabs for £12 in October. I fully intended to get one but October turned out to be more of a Sainsbury’s month. The last 4 days haven’t been nice, I’m not saying I have Turbo ‘flu, you know, the one where you would shoot yourself if you had the strength to [...]

SO I left you with the complete update of the end of 2007 and a very hungover wife. One week on I still have a hungover wife. This week has been dominated by my new diet obsession (thanks to Mel for slapping my gut in Walkabout last night to the Kaiser Chiefs singing ‘I Predict [...]

It’s been a while since I blogged in LA. It’s not that I got fed up with it after LA – I was incapable of getting to a computer and boring you with the insignificant details of my life. Was I incapable because there was no internet access where I was? No. Was it that [...]