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Brian's Weekly Rubbish


Have You Seen Santa Yet
Hi Everyone In the days when I believed in Santa Claus, I am still not sure so I do leave a mince pie for him even though we have no...
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Dec 10, 20233 min read


Losing Your Marbles
Hi Everyone If, like me, you are approaching middle age, and especially if you were a boy you will remember playing marbles or Shotties...
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Dec 3, 20233 min read


"How Much"?.
Hi Everybody When I was in our local supermarket this week I had a mission in mind, to find out the cost of a tea bag. I found that a box...
brianmate
Nov 26, 20234 min read


Traditions
Hi Everyone Of course, every country in the world has traditions whether it is Putin showing off his military power in Red Square every...
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Nov 19, 20234 min read


Friends and Neighbours
Hi Everyone One of the joys of approaching middle age is that our day is not greeted with an alarm clock, we do not have to struggle to...
brianmate
Nov 12, 20234 min read


War and Peace -The Definitive Version
Hi Everyone Those of us who are approaching middle age have experienced a number of wars from WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Falklands, and many...
brianmate
Nov 5, 20233 min read


Don't Let the Bedbugs Get You
Hi Everyone Back in 1994, we made our first trip to America to visit our friends who, at that time lived on the coast in the state of...
brianmate
Oct 29, 20233 min read


Britain at War
Hi Everyone Do you remember those boring history classes when you were at school? We had the Wars of the Roses, the Hundred Year War that...
brianmate
Oct 22, 20233 min read


Freedom of Choice
Hi Everyone I read something interesting on social media this week when someone posed the question " What did you have as a child that...
brianmate
Oct 15, 20233 min read


HS2 Hits the Buffers
Hi Everyone In the 1980s I was the project manager on a hospital ward extension. The building was only about 60 yards long. The architect...
brianmate
Oct 8, 20233 min read


Why, Why, Why
Hi Everyone Two jaw dropping events happened this week. The first was the stabbing of a 15 year old school girl in a busy street in South...
brianmate
Sep 30, 20233 min read


Guess Who is Coming to Dinner
Hi Everyone One hundred and twenty three years ago in 1900, Britain had the largest empire in the history of the world controlling the...
brianmate
Sep 23, 20232 min read


On the Road Again
Hi Everyone Did you notice that Batman and Robin were on the road again this week? Well, not that Batman and Robin as these two are not...
brianmate
Sep 17, 20233 min read


Is Britain Broken?
Hi Everyone It is a bit concerning when I hear from people from all walks of life that "Britain is Broken". Even if you are a cup half...
brianmate
Sep 10, 20233 min read


This Changing World
Hi Everyone Next week schools start the new educational year after the 6 week summer break. This week the government announced that a...
brianmate
Sep 2, 20233 min read


Your Title: What’s Your Blog About?
Sample Titles: Welcome to My Blog! or Welcome to My World or Welcome to (Blog Name) To boost the post’s SEO, include a keyword in the...
brianmate
Aug 31, 20231 min read


Someone is Watching You
Hi Everyone As a young boy the Senior and Junior Partners would take me sometime during the summer on a Sunday afternoon trip to a well...
brianmate
Aug 27, 20234 min read


A Big Week
Hi Everyone It seems a very long time ago that I waited for my A level examination results and how it would change my life. I had the...
brianmate
Aug 20, 20233 min read


A Financial Sandwich
Hi Everyone As the energy and cost of living continue to bite, no doubt many hospitality businesses have had conversations about how to...
brianmate
Aug 12, 20233 min read


A Policy Maker
Hi Everyone For nearly 50 years I was involved in building things. It is very satisfying to know that many of those buildings are still...
brianmate
Aug 6, 20233 min read
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