Archive - Geoff's Joust

Just in case any of you were wondering (but I’m sure you weren’t) why the Jousts have dried-up in recent weeks I thought I’d proffer a word of…

Nov 4, 2021 •

September 2021

Bailing-out the bailiwick

Or, hiding in the shruggery

Sep 23, 2021 •

We’re all in the same can

Sometimes we are at our funniest when we are not trying to be funny and this paradox reminds me of an incident in my early childhood. From my youngest…

Sep 9, 2021 •

August 2021

Just answer the question!

Mr Kelly, my literature teacher, lit a cigarette. Teachers could do that in those days. Mr Kelly even smoked in the classroom.

Aug 26, 2021 •

Fee fie fo fum, I smell the juice of a capsicum

For many of us, certain smells remind us of our childhoods. For me, one of these nostalgic odours is that of a farmyard, which always conjures memories…

Aug 12, 2021 •

July 2021

Information technology is great if you are reasonably young, have good eyesight and have all your wits about you. But if one is getting on a bit in…

Jul 29, 2021 •

Unconditional courtesy

“Good manners cost nowt, but can put many a pahnd in tha pocket.” So goes an old northern saying, but I’m glad to say that even when I first heard it…

Jul 15, 2021 •

Last week a friend of mine (let’s call him Jerry; it’s short) posted a photo of himself on Facebook, holding a wonderfully golden brown round loaf fresh…

Jul 1, 2021 •

June 2021

Ammonite - or, for those of a nautical bent, the nightmare of the Lee shore

This fortnight I turn film critic. Suze, her sister Diane and I recently went to watch ‘Ammonite’ at our local village cinema. The best part of the…

Jun 17, 2021 •

Farmerceuticals

Was there ever such an ugly word as ‘jab’? (Yes; ‘gibbous’ but that’s another story). In recent weeks I have had to endure listening to dozens of people…

Jun 3, 2021 •

May 2021

Out of the frying pan and into the fryer

Call me naive but when I first saw the term ‘twice cooked’ on a menu, I thought to myself “OK, they’ve probably got an apprentice chef, and he didn’t…

May 20, 2021 •

Windows of opportunity

I could save myself a lot of effort running up and down stairs by acquiring a pigeon-proof bird feeder. Or I could summon the power of technology . . .

May 6, 2021 •

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