Author Archives: john graham

After a week of hard-fought negotiations, I am now able to give you a little bit more of the detail about our success with the negotiations on packaging.  Although I must ask you to keep this entirely confidential for the … Continue reading →

Posted on July 23, 2017 by john graham | 4 Comments

I Like Money !

Posted on July 20, 2017 by john graham

Piggy banks full of money.   Tins on the mantelpiece full of money.   Pockets full of change. Having money makes you feel free.    Saving money makes you feel that you have achieved something worthwhile. At least that is … Continue reading →

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The Tidy Bears are back

Posted on July 18, 2017 by john graham

Throughout June and July in the midst of all the political election shenanigans, my tidying up took a back seat and so did the Tidy Bears, who are not at all interested in politics.    They are not particularly interested … Continue reading →

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LLLP Brexit Negotiations

Posted on July 16, 2017 by john graham

Now that the Last Laugh Looney Party is in the Cabinet we are bound by Cabinet responsibility not to divulge our confidential discussions to anyone.   However in the spirit of “Open Government”, which our Prime Miniser says she is … Continue reading →

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Oranges might slow down Dementia.

Posted on July 13, 2017 by john graham

I wrote a lot about dementia the early days of this blog.    ( You can see all the posts on this subject by clicking on Dementia in the Topics List).      I rather gave up after writing about … Continue reading →

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Dementia won’t go away !

Posted on July 11, 2017 by john graham

Dementia is definitely one of the diseases of the day.   If not the disease of the day.   This is not so much dementia week, as the dementia era. It is an illness which nobody really understands and for which there … Continue reading →

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Last Laugh Looney Cabinet Minister Appointed

Posted on July 9, 2017 by john graham

Now that the LLLP has officially joined the Cabinet, we have to go through an induction to the newspeak world of Cabinet responsibility.   This means we have to use one, or preferably more, of the following phrases in every … Continue reading →

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Last Laugh Looney Party – Cabinet Minister

Posted on July 6, 2017 by john graham

The Last Laugh Looney Party has had great success in  negotiating the acquisition of all the Islands, who have now joined the Island Repubiic.     This has been helped by all the ageing multi-millionaires who have moved their bank accounts to the … Continue reading →

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Last Laugh Looney Party Overseas Territories

Posted on July 4, 2017 by john graham

Following the demise of the British Empire, the Last Laugh Looney Party, is not quite sure what British Overseas Territories it still owns.  But whatever, it has decided to claim them for the Last Laugh Looney Party Island Republic.   … Continue reading →

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Last Laugh Looney Party Greek Islands

Posted on July 2, 2017 by john graham

As the Brexit negotiations became more difficult, the European Union has demanded that Britain take responsibility for all the bankrupt Greek islands, including Corfu, Crete and half of Cyprus; plus a few other islands with unpronouncable names and occasional volcanic … Continue reading →

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