Want, wear, read, need?
This is a post about Christmas presents. The timing and planning is somewhat off - I intended to write this about 3 weeks ago. If you're still contemplating buying Christmas gifts now, either swiftly…
Tagged: personal-stuff
Adulting....
In recent years I've heard the word 'adulting' used to describe various types of behaviour. I have to say that when I first heard it, I thought it was being used in a joking manner, but it appears th…
The mysterious chicken....
I'm blessed with having a number of caring friends who often surprise me with their generosity. Recent gifts have included fleece's, scarves, choocolate by the barrow load and...well...a raw chicken. …
Small fires in jam jars
By the time I got interested in radio and electronics - when I was about 10 years old, in the early 1970s, most new radios and TVs weren't using valves anymore; you'd still find old stuff in junk stor…
Stamped out....
When I was a kid in the 1960s - even through my teenage years - one of the things that often seemed to start getting publicised at this time of year was the charitable stamp collection. The idea was t…
Gutterdamerung....
This morning at Pritchard Towers, I'd just sat down to breakfast in the smaller dining-room, and Jeeves was just bringing the starter course of three scrambled Ostrich eggs when there was a thunderous…
When unfriending is the friendly thing to do
I'm not a great social media junkie; I think I have a Tumblr account, somewhere. I don't have an Instagram account or use Reddit, and whilst Blackberry Messenger is (apparently) installed and availab…
Progress so far....
A few weeks ago I decided to try and get back in to regularly writing. This came after a conversation with my wife in which we recollected that in the 1980s I was able to earn about 50% of my income t…
Unhappy the land that needs heroes....??
The line : "Unhappy is the land that needs a hero." comes from Bertholt Brecht's 'Life of Gallileo' and has stuck with me for many, many years. I can't remember when I first heard it, but it still ra…
Today you, tomorrow me
The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is feed the cats, then make tea, then sit and allow some of my higher brain functions to come online, usually whilst browsing Facebook. There then co…