Yorkshire Bitter

…please turn out the lights?
For the first time in over a decade, I’m seriously thinking about emigrating. I’m fed up to the back teeth of working long, unsociable hours just to keep paying more and more taxes to Gordon’s pet causes (which certainly don’t include me!) - but it’s the control freakery that bothers me […]

There is a leaflet being pushed through Selby doors almost every day saying “CLOTHING COLLECTION” and “We urgently need clothing that you and your family may never wear again” and also asking for blankets, sheets, shoes, handbags, curtains, belts, bath and hand towels, underwear, cosmetics, toiletries and perfumes.
First thing that needs to be pointed out […]

Panic hit the streets as savers lost confidence in the Selby Rock Bank, wiping out almost £152 of assets overnight.
In the greatest calamity to hit the town since the Abbots Road estate was devastated by Hurricane Kylie, causing £30 worth of damage, angry investors queued down a bustling high street filled with charity shops and […]

I fear another British institution is set to be ruined before our very eyes. Brace yourselves, readers, as this isn’t going to be pretty.
Deepest, darkest Peru’s most famous marmalade eating emigré is heading for the big screen, Warner Bros announced yesterday. (The Guardian)
Yes, you read that right. They’re going to make a Hollywood version […]

So in a plot twist to a storyline that would have been rejected as too far-fetched for even Brookside in its heyday, Kate and Gerry McCann finally get hauled in and accused of drugging their own daughter, who then dies from an overdose, hiding her body, calmly returning to their dinner party down the […]

As most people will already know by now, Jane Tomlinson, the Leeds mother, wife and cancer sufferer, has sadly passed away.
I can particularly sympathise with her children, as 43 is far too young to die. My own mother died of cancer in her early 40s and I know how much effect that had on […]

My word, look at all the cobwebs around here. The barlby.net blog (formerly part of barlbymassive.co.uk) is going to return after a long absence. No, I haven’t been doing time, you cynical buggers, just been much busier on other things. But I was never really away, just like the stink from the BOCM factory.
And don’t […]