The Antidote to Covid is Suduko
Gone are the days of my leaping heart at the sound of my text alert letting me know that the object of my desires was close at hand. These days the text pings and [...]
A Useless Eater?
What do you call a boat full of lawyers at the bottom of the sea? So the joke goes, "a good start". At this point we are all supposed to laugh heartily and heave [...]
My Blind Corona Shop
No one's going to be leaning over the pub bar any time soon and ordering a pint of Corona. Time, it seems, has been called on all our social lives for the foreseeable future. [...]
Blind Shooter
I have been to the moon and back, plumbed in bathrooms and more besides, and all in my sleep. I normally undertake these activities in an orderly fashion in the seconds before I wake [...]
My Dots Are Raised
The oven packed up. Why does this always happen when you have chopped up enough vegetables to sustain an anaerobic digester for a week? That's what happened. At the point of realisation, I switched [...]
Twenty Questions
A good part of my life is spent on matters to do with #Fund Raising. It's a tough old game so I'm sympathetic to anyone faced with the challenge and especially if it’s something [...]
The Hairy Eared Hound
Children's literature is the best. When The Son was growing up, I loved reading to him. I do a pretty passable #Eeyore. Some have even commended me on my #Piglet. That's another story involving [...]
Blind Date
"I guess that not being able to see makes dating a whole lot easier," a one-time only dinner date suggested. "I mean. It wouldn't matter to you what people look like. You could be [...]
The Long Way Round
What could be nicer than to live it up with a couple of friends, eat canapés (not part of my five a day), drink an immodest glass of wine, then work it all off [...]
It’s A Spaghetti Western
Storm Brendon, council Christmas tree disposal policy and a long walk home don't appear to have much in common. Put them all together and you can live through your own Spaghetti western. It's not [...]