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He's Me Mate

December 20, 2017

The song this week is called "He's Me Mate" and is a song I wrote in the late 70s for Cannon
and Ball...they didn't want it so I left it at a local theatre for The Krankies who notified me and
said they were going to include it in their act....they ended up performing it on The Childrens
Royal Command and other TV programmes.....it wasn't until the mid 90s that I eventually met
them as I was on the same show...we became good friends and I have been writing songs for
them ever since....more of them later...incidentally Cannon and Ball decided to record Wind
Beneath My Wings which was a flop...shame.

.I've been up in The Lake District for the past few days....I went walking with my wife in a place
called Staveley....I have done this 5 mile circular walk a few times which involves crossing the
River Kent at one point...when we get there ...no bridge....it had apparently been washes away
in the recent floods....so I decided to take a diversion ...and got lost....we ended up in a small
village where I met the nicest bloke in the world....I told him of our predicament and he got his
phone out and showed us a map on it....and even offered to give us a lift back....which I politely
turned down....he then showed my wife how to get the map on her phone.....then he went into
the building we were standing by and brought out a complimentary bottle of beer.....it was his
brewery !!!!....the guy was Polish and a pleasure to have met.

I'll be taking my grandson to the local panto at The Floral Pavilion in New Brighton next
friday....he is three and a half and his mum said she hopes he has enough attention span.....as
I've forked out 52 quid he better have !!...even if I have to tie him to the seat....and on the
subject of pantomimes The Krankies are in Dick Whittington with John Barrowman in
Manchester and it has made the NATIONAL news because ONE person has complained saying
it was too rude for children....thousands have seen it but ONE complaint makes the news....very
sad....I only hope they don't look into the many songs I wrote for them over the years...for
example I wrote a parody on "I'm a Barbie Girl"...called "I'm a Booby Girl" where Janette sings
the song as her rubber boobs go bigger and bigger...then there was the Ossie Osbourne Song
where she comes on as Ossie and every line of the song has a swear word but Ian has a hooter
and hoots it out....bringing the house down...and many more.

I don't do gigs anymore but every Christmas I entertain a collection of carers at their annual
dinner...which requires me sorting out a set which includes an hour of jokes and singalong
songs....as I have done many similar functions over the years I have always kept a file of what I
have done and where and the times of the sets....so looking through the files I found an ideal
one for this gig...it was for an organisation called "The Irby Gardeners"....in 2012....so I used
this one with a few updates on the jokes which went down well and that was that....from there I
went on to the school fayre where my son teaches...when I got to the car park I wasn't sure
where the fayre was so I asked the only bloke in the car park who was also looking for the
function....he looked at me and said "I know your face....you once played for us at the Irby
Gardeners".....what are the chances?

.... finally....there was a discussion on TV regarding the fact that MOST people couldn't care
less about politics or feminism or transgender etc etc....and they were asking women whether
they were offended if a bloke held open the door for them etc....NONE of them were which
proves the point that the minority have the spotlight....which matters not as no-one takes any
notice...including me....I also caught an interview on Radio 2 with Alexander Armstrong
promoting his Christmas album which is so bad it isn't worth discussing...I only hope he doesn't
perform it at some of the places (continued)