I Can Explain Everything - My Expense Claims Put Before You! |
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Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:44:00 GMT |
Sacked for Sexing Up some film or other |
It all began when a young man dressed in shooting breeks and a pointed bra fetched up at Peel Tower one fine September morning in 1872 or thereabouts. 'It is an honour to meet you, guv', he s...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:37:00 GMT |
The Love Triangle: Peel & Richard & Lindy Thomason |
Oh what beauty and refinement I beheld as Lindy Thomason began work at the Foreign Office as my Personal Assistant in the year 1875, roughly. She was married to a chirpy cockney double-glazi...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:03:00 GMT |
Normal Service Will Resume as Soon as Ive Remembered Stuff |
I have been inundated with an email, dear reader.Where are you Peel, he asks, and why have you neglected your blog?Well I'll tell you.I have attempted to post various articles of considerable importan...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:23:00 GMT |
I Recall Ewan McColl, I think. |
People often ask me about folk singer, musician, songwriter, socialist activist, actor, poet, playwright, record producer and Kirsty's dad, Ewan McColl. I have a phenomenal memory for names, pla...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 19:22:00 GMT |
I Did Not Have Intimate Relations With That Woman! |
My trusty lackey handed in his notice this week and I suspect that it had something to do with Hilary Clinton's letter. My eyes aren't too good these days, so I asked Crosby, my valet, to ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:14:00 GMT |
I am Behind the First Folk Festival in History, I think. |
'Remember me?' he asked. He was a small, squat, self-important man with mutton chop whiskers. I think he had some sort of squint for he was unable to look one in the eye as he spoke. ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:59:00 GMT |
Oh Crikey! My Fingerprints All Over the Folk Awards Scandal |
I count myself fortunate in having such good friends as Mr. Simon Cowbell. When I was booted off the Radio 2 Folk Awards Panel in 1886, roughly, following an unseemly tusslement over the 'White Hare...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:32:00 GMT |
A Walk On Part in the making of Liege and Lief ? Wrong! |
I cannot claim all the credit for Fairport Convention's ground breaking and timeless album Liege and Lief.It is true that I had discovered the chirpy cockney, Richard Thomason and ironed out his ham-f...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:19:00 GMT |
Not my finest hour: the Morris Strike 1884-85, roughly |
Had I known what I know now, I would never have accepted the Prime Minister's commission to command the government's foray against Morris Dancers, in the great strike of ... whenever.. It ...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:48:00 GMT |
