Lockdown, Lies and Revelations!
Lockdown has probably led us all to discover things about ourselves and the people we live with. Some of our discoveries may be more palatable than others. Last week I was putting my recycling [...]
Lockdown has probably led us all to discover things about ourselves and the people we live with. Some of our discoveries may be more palatable than others. Last week I was putting my recycling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
The Old Bag rang me up to say that she and her slobbering side kick were in festive mood and would I like a drink? I said I would and that she should come [...]
"Get a job with a pension" was the plea of Alan Pickering's' parents. He did. He became a pensions guru. Someone has to do it and there is no reason why a man without [...]
The drama of elections is not all it's cracked up to be. It's largely tedium and data entry. I'm sure about this. I've been out canvassing over two elections. I'm even in a WhatsApp [...]