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Brian's Weekly Rubbish


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...
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Sep 2, 20233 min read


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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Aug 6, 20233 min read


Gelato Delight
Hi Everyone Just when you think that nothing much is happening in your life something extraordinary happens. You know that our city has,...
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Jul 30, 20233 min read


As Hot as it Gets
Hi Everyone Almost twenty five years ago we had a summer holiday on the Greek island of Corfu and the small nearby island of Paxos. As we...
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Jul 22, 20233 min read


Behind the Green Door
Hi Everyone , If you are approaching middle age, you will remember a cheesy song that was popular in the 1950s - Green Door. One line in...
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Jul 15, 20234 min read


I Have Some Good News........I Think
Hi Everyone Sadly, some of the illegal immigrants crossing the Channel from France in small boats are children traveling alone in a...
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Jul 9, 20233 min read


Water, Water Everywhere
Hi Everyone I like to think that I am a cup half full character so when I look for ideas for this Rubbish every week I try to entertain,...
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Jul 2, 20233 min read


Who Wants to be a Billionaire
Hi Everyone I am sure that at Christmas or over a dinner party table we have all dreamed about what we would do if we had lots of money....
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Jun 25, 20233 min read


You Only Live Once
Hi Everyone I think that you will have had to reach middle age to have heard of this Hollywood actress Mae West who was a star when films...
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Jun 17, 20233 min read


The Music of Life
Hi Everyone This week I was listening briefly to a radio phone in programme while making a short journey in our car. The topic was the...
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Jun 10, 20233 min read


Red Wine, Dark Chocolate and................
Hi Everyone A couple of weeks ago I went into our local budget supermarket to buy a bottle of whisky as a present for a friend, something...
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Jun 4, 20233 min read


A Celebration and a Green Anorak
Hi Everyone Sadly in our social calendar, it is a fact that funerals are much more frequent than weddings, BBQs, and raves. In the last...
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May 27, 20233 min read


Artificial Intelligence in the Clouds
Hi Everyone I learned a new phrase this week although some 'lucky' people have known about it for years - artificial intelligence. Just...
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May 21, 20233 min read


Pasteis De Nata V The Two Scoop Tub
Hi Everyone If you are a long time Rubbish reader you will know that I am a connaisseur of the two scoop tub, expertise gained from our...
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May 14, 20233 min read


Pot Hole Paradise
Hi Everyone A couple of weeks ago Richi, you know our Prime Minister was in the North East of England staring into a pothole in the road....
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Apr 29, 20233 min read


Pick up a PPPPenguin
Hi Everyone Dot and I live within two miles of where we were born, an area just on the southern boundary of Stoke on Trent known...
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Apr 23, 20233 min read
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