Category Archives: True stories

How to park a 747….

Posted on 13 February, 2013 by jb

Easy, you’d say. Nose it towards to gate position at the terminal and just watch the coloured lights as they count down and – when they turn red – you’re there. If you’re a 747 with Self Loading Freight (aka … Continue reading →

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Don’t read this…

Posted on 24 January, 2013 by jb

… it could be detrimental to your health. One of Pythagoras’s students crossed the master (who maintained that ALL square roots are rational) with his life by drowning by proving the opposite. As he pushed the student’s head under water, … Continue reading →

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Indeed

Posted on 24 December, 2012 by jb
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Me and Hilary

Posted on 4 December, 2012 by jb

                Talking to an entertainment reporter the other day who seems to spend his life chatting with stars of the silver screen, among others Hilary Swank. “Oh” I said “Hilary and I are … Continue reading →

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I’ve got it sussed….!

Posted on 8 November, 2012 by jb

Having a coffee the other day with Dr Rita Heuser and Uli Zawar at Sonntagskind in Gonsenheim and we got talking – as one does in the presence of someone as profoundly knowledgeable as Dr Heuser – about the origin … Continue reading →

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Stay well away from this stuff…..

Posted on 2 November, 2012 by jb

Shot through to Le Tigre, a bistro in Haguenau just across the border in France on the way to an exhibition at the Burda Art Museum in Baden-Baden. As one does… In the process of ordering the Menu de Jour … Continue reading →

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Djvd Zatišje, fraudster, successful speechwriter and media personality, declared dead in absentia

Posted on 26 September, 2012 by jb

21 March 2024 Djvd Zatišje, fraudster, successful speechwriter and media personality, was today declared dead in absentia after the statutory 10 years waiting period . He was 53 years old at the time of his disappearance in March 2013 on … Continue reading →

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Just don’t read it…..

Posted on 26 September, 2012 by jb

Ms jb’s come down with the dreaded Lurgi that’s been going around. (Infected me, but that’s not important..) Stayed at home for 2 whole days and then dragged herself down to Ms Quack who quarantined her for another 2 days … Continue reading →

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Out of the mouths of babes….

Posted on 3 September, 2012 by jb

Apocryphally, mothers-in-law and sons-in-law aren’t meant to get on. No-one told Elisa, Ms jb’s Mum. And if anyone told me, I either didn’t hear, wasn’t paying attention (the excuses I use more and more  as time passes….) or I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Why the Headmaster’s assembly lectern grew a tablecloth

Posted on 6 August, 2012 by jb

I attended Westlake Boys High School in New Zealand in the early to mid 1960s, which makes a 50th Jubilee at around this time highly appropriate. Given that I was in the first intake (Third Form then – 3 Latin, … Continue reading →

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