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What happened to the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving?
I awoke this morning and lay in the dark as my wife slept next to me and gave this Thanksgiving thing a serious thought.As I did not emigrate to the States until I was nineteen I do not have the childhood recollections of Thanksgiving traditions, jus...
The Rat
I didn’t set out to be a rat; it just turned out that way.They came at midnight. A chief inspector and six constables. Thumping on the door. Hard. My father stumbled down the stairs in his slippers and striped pajamas, pulling a robe around him as ...
Embarrased in Tucson
One evening last week as I wrapped up my evenings bill paying on the computer I noticed that I had a new message on Facebook. When I clicked on the link I was pleasantly surprised to find a note from my college roommate. He was in town, remembered I ...
'Dithering Dave" Moyes
It always drives me crazy... especially as an Everton Fan. Not only do we have 'dithering Dave' as a manager, who every season seems to wait until the last moment to buy his players, as he watches what we have been told by the media are supposedly pr...
Soccerpro.com 2009 review
My friends at Soccerpro.com contacted me a few weeks back and asked if I would be interested in trying some of the gear out as I did last year and letting my readers know about them and their products here in Bollocks. Of course I was delighted to ob...
Everton and the 2009 FA Cup
It was 5 am when I stirred feverishly in the confines of my king-sized bed. As usual the wife had managed to pull the blankets around just her so I was laying curled up in a ball, feeling the breeze from the fan making the hair on my legs move as he ...

