The song this week is from a musical play I wrote back in the day and it's called "School
Without A Teacher" and was performed by several schools around the area....it looked at what
would happen if computers replaced teachers (ahead of my time or what)...seems like an ideal
situation for pupils but as the play demonstrates this is not necessarily the case.

Went to the local panto in New Brighton....Peter Pan...took the 3 year old grandson which was
his first panto...I was hoping he would have a long enough attention span....no need to
worry...he was transfixed....it was so loud but really well done...they had "stars" from Coronation
Street and the kid's TV channel ...neither of which I had heard of with Tinkerbell on roller
skates....the little fella said "Grandad...I like Tinkerbell"...to which I replied "Yeah...so do I"....but
for very different reasons.

Another brave protector of the realm has been knighted...SIR Ringo Star....I suppose he must
have done something other than being a passenger on the Beatle bus....it's all getting beyond a
joke....I'm sorry but I never got The Beatles (shock horror)...to try to understand what it was they
had which made them so popular world wide I've been watching several documentaries on Sky
Arts about their various activities including the making of The Magical Mystery Tour which was
an absolute pointless load of rubbish proving they had no idea regarding making films...and
their disastrous business set up with Apple Corps which lost millions...which still left me
unconvinced...they did write a lot of decent songs and a lot of debatable ones but that's all they
did all day....I wonder how long they would have lasted if they had carried on doing live
gigs?....but hey who am I?...and it's only my opinion...and not that of the masses who all pile into
the shops for a few days before Christmas.

I watched a programme called All Star Musicals which featured none singing celebrities learning
to sing showsongs....the idea was bad enough as most showsongs belong in a show not as a
solo spot sung by someone who isn't a singer...it was pretty bad with the likes of Nicky
Campbell...Tony Robinson etc proving you should stick to what you actually do.....it was
presented by Andrew Flintoff who was an uneasy watch...he really should have stuck to
cricket...and to top things off we now have a female Dr.Who...not that I watch it...don't get
it....but lo and behold Bradley Walsh is going to be in it....when he can drag himself away from
The Palladium....The Chase....his new album...and the police series he's in...there should be a
competition to try and find a day when Bradders isn't all over our TV screens...is there no-one
else out there?

I remember a while ago when a local corner shop butcher called the shop "Sausages R Us"
(with the R the other way round)...he was threatened with legal action for copyright by "Toys R
Us" which I found pathetic....however what goes round comes round...one of our major stores
put an advert on TV comparing their prices with Toys R Us for the same item....showing big
reductions...illustrating a sense of greed on the part of Toys R Us,...since then Toys R Us are
closing down a lot of stores....when will retailers get the message?...the public are getting wise to them and these days with shopping on line it's all about PRICE.....I do like to see people power now and again.