I was born and raised in South Wales, in and around the mining village of Abercynon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As well as living in Abercynon I have also lived in London, both east and west, and I am now living in South Yorkshire just outside of Rotherham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am in my mid-sixties and approaching retirement, which will probably be delayed as I cannot afford to live off the meagre amount that my various company pensions pay me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having been made redundant several times I have worked for multiple companies in various jobs from security guard to Software engineer and currently as an Applications Developer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My many outside work interests include, but are not limited to, watching rugby and sport in general on the TV, although I find both athletics and cricket fairly boring, however I am beginning to enjoy the newer T20 version of cricket. I also enjoy playing golf (very badly according to my playing partners), and board games including Chess, Backgammon, Monopoly and Draughts\/Checkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am interested in politics and would place myself as being left of centre, but according to some of the replies to my many tweets on Twitter a lot of people seem to classify me as being either belonging to the far-left or far-right, which I believe is due to the completely polarised views of the Twitter Users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having said that and being brought up in an area that was predominantly \u2018Labour\u2019 I have not voted labour for many a General Election, drifting between the Lib Dems and not voting at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would much rather vote for some-one rather than not vote at all but in recent years I have found it difficult to bring myself to vote for any of the major parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is why, I strongly believe that there should be a penalty for not voting, but there should be an option on the ballot paper of \u2018None of the above\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I could not decide whether to make this a serious or comedic site or just flag my posts as being serious, Comedic or Semi-Comedic. In the end I decided to just write the blogs and let the reader decide into which category the blogs fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although I have used poetic licence and\/or exaggeration in most of the blogs, attempting to make them more entertaining, I promise you that everything I have written is either based on factual events or my honest opinion of current events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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