Shownotes Transcript
The song this week is one I wrote for a dear friend of mine who is sadly no longer with us...his name was John Lomax and was part of a skiffle group called The Atlantics in the 50's....he played the first electric guitar I heard live....I met John many years later and we became good friends....I recorded this song with him as a tribute...The Story of Skiffle"....as it was skiffle that kicked it all off back then....John played this to Chas McDevitt when he went to one of his shows....Chas suggested he send it to the skiffle convention in Finland (2001) which he did...this resulted in us being invited over and we forming a skiffle group and off we went...great times...I miss John very much.
There has been an outcry regarding parking fines being issued in hospital car parks....this included doctors and nurses...who are busy saving lives....parking is free in Scotland but our greedy little private organisations want their money....the government say it's up to the "Trusts" how they handle parking....so another nice sidestep from our boys and girls in Parliament......it costs nurses up to a grand a year...and the parking fines don't go into the NHS it goes into the pockets of the so called trusts....they had a nurse on the news saying she was dealing with a heart attack and couldn't leave the operating theatre and got a fine...she contested it and lost which cost her another 40 quid...it's a disgrace and needs sorting.
The latest thing is "no losers" in school sport....they had a woman (what else) prattling on about how losing can effect children in later life...what a load of tripe...you need to learn how to win AND more importantly lose in life if you want to survive...it's called "striving" to do your best isn't it?.....and speaking of losers how about the guy who got battered by Federer at Wimbledon and started crying....boo hoo I've got a blister...he also got 1.1 million !!!.....it's the suckers who paid thousands to watch the game on centre court I feel sorry for....mind you if you're daft enough to pay fortune for something you can see on TV there isn't a lot of hope.
The PC brigade strike again....Dr.Who is now a woman...which I suppose stops them moaning for a while....I don't watch Dr.Who but it puzzles me how they are going to get a kitchen and a washing machine in the TARDIS?....oops sorry can't say that I'll have the PC brigade after me....all we hear is how hard done to women are....it gets very boring after a while....we now have women's cricket which no-one I know is remotely interested in...including my female friends....and there is about half a dozen in the crowd watching women world cup games...not to mention ladies football...which is of no interest to men or indeed women...but we MUST be gender neutral !!!!
The BBC have been "forced" to publish the salaries of their top "stars"....the likes of Gary Linacre and Graham Norton on millions....and the football "pundits" raking in a fortune....and apparently Chris Evans is one of the highest paid...WHAT FOR???....they had some half wit on the news who is responsible for getting top talent for TV trying to justify where MY MONEY goes....these so called talented stars are on more than the prime minister....virtually anyone can be a chat show host or a commentator......in fact Wimbledon could do without 90% of the commentary box.....well worth the licence fee?...I don't think so.