Probably the only time I ever gave a glimmer of a thought to the idea of joining the military was a momentary blip around 25 years ago when I first watched Private Benjamin.
When travelling on the single tracks of Scotland's rural byways, you can always tell locals from tourists by the way passing places are respected, ignored – or downright abused.
THERE was a time when we had constants; pop stars hung around the charts for years, favourite football teams had players whose names you recognised (and were paid wages that weren't obscene) and politicians seemed to have solid political platforms, rather than operating from the children's soft sand pit they play in today.
"I HAVE been seeking PF Sloan, but no-one knows where he has gone," are the opening words in singer Rumer's new single, and if they sound even vaguely familiar, that's because they were written a few decades ago by Jimmy Webb.
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Probably the only time I ever gave a glimmer of a thought to the idea of joining the military was a momentary blip around 25 years ago when I first watched Private Benjamin.
I DON'T have one.
Waiting is hard.
DRAGONS get a bad press in the West.
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When travelling on the single tracks of Scotland's rural byways, you can always tell locals from tourists by the way passing places are respected, ignored – or downright abused.
The first speaks for itself, of course.
THERE was a time when we had constants; pop stars hung around the charts for years, favourite football teams had players whose names you recognised (and were paid wages that weren't obscene) and politicians seemed to have solid political platforms, rather than operating from the children's soft sand pit they play in today.
Once you get to a certain age, you start quoting your parents while under the impression that you're having an original thought.
Am I the only one to feel sorry for trolls?
THERE is an image seared indelibly on my brain from last summer's Tour de France.
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MY granny died a year ago.
"I HAVE been seeking PF Sloan, but no-one knows where he has gone," are the opening words in singer Rumer's new single, and if they sound even vaguely familiar, that's because they were written a few decades ago by Jimmy Webb.
IN the papers recently, I saw both a luxury liner and a North Korean prison camp described as living hells.
As a recovering fanboy I've yet to give in to the lure of the new Avengers Assemble movie.
AS THE warmer weather arrives – or at least dips a toe gingerly in the water – spare a thought for the Happy Friends of Darkness and Cold.
Corrugated concrete.
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