When it came time to write the customary summary of my media consumption for 2022 I began it thinking that it must definitely have been on par with 2021 – so that’s the influence of anecdotal info there, because having
Some time ago we bought LarryBStanding a toy – it was on offer for about a tenner at a pet store that’s no longer there, and it was a kind of football-thing with rope tassles attached to both sides through
The other night whilst washing baby bottles (because this is what I do now) a phrase popped into my head that I don’t think’s ever been in there before at my behest: “chief cook & bottle washer”. Hardly a proposition
(Note: I started writing this about a year and ago and am only now getting around to publishing, so it starts as exploration then turns more into a review…) Now that we’ve got a large tiled area to keep clean,
Yesterday I needed to phone my broadband provider to give them the news that we’re moving to another company, on account of the fact that their modus operandi is to sign users up for a certain monthly fee and then
And here was me thinking I watched a lot of things on the telly in 2020, eh? Who knew THAT was coming… There’s no point lamenting the comparatively few *actual* blogposts between the last one of these and this one,
Get Back – the Beatles documentary. WHAT a riveting 8 hours of film! There are some people for whom this would be the worst thing you could make them sit through. However I thought I’d outline why for me it
The challenging thing about when one of your best mates publishes a whisky book is how is it possible to review it with any sense of objectivity? Well, the beauty of this being a personal blog is that I don’t
Back in 2009 when I used to write much more frequently than I do now I had a “series” of what you’d probably now call “listicles”, detailing various of my Top Ten things. It’s a nice easy excuse/format to get
I’ve come to value this blog not only as a means of communicating ideas and information to the thousands of regular readers* but also as a sort of time capsule for looking back at what was happening in the past