As you get older, life serves up certain inevitabilities. In 1994 I was contacted by the Boy Scouts of America to inform me that I’d been successful in applying to be a summer camp counsellor, and would be heading off
Jacket potato
The Machine
(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,
Diriliş: Ertuğrul – Season 1
So… TECHNICALLY I shouldn’t put this in a roundup, because we haven’t finished watching it. However it really rates a mention, owing to the fact that in its original broadcast form I believe each episode is movie-length. What Netflix cunningly
Hey, what’s the B for?
A lot of people* have asked me what the “B” in “Jason B Standing” stands for. Another way to phrase it is “What’s your middle name?”, however I suppose in this case because I’ve proffered the “B” to them in
What a difference 5 years and a lockdown makes…
Never had a proper beard before… not 100% sure about it. Someone the other day said I looked like Christopher Lee from Lord of the Rings. I think I need to put some text underneath the image, or this thing
Deep, and Crisp, and even
I think it was a combination of Chris Hoban and Annabel Meikle’s comments on Facebook that kicked this idea into reality – I’ve long suspected that the obscurity and specificity of crisp flavours was a bit of a sham, and
An unwelcome triumverate of events
To date in my life I’ve been pretty smug about something – I’ve never lost a wallet, a set of keys, or been pickpocketed*. I’d put this down to maintaining a general sense of awareness, and some behaviour patterns to
I hate Bluetooth.
Bluetooth – according to the globally accepted source of all accurate knowledge – was described in 1989 and implemented in 1994. It’s now 2019. 25 years. You’d think SOMEONE would have gotten it to work properly by now. The dearly
Grading Whiskies Out Of 100: A Composte
The response that nobody asked for. Having recently read 2 blogposts on the topic, this qualifies the topic of “Grading Whiskies Out Of 100” to now be styled as “a debate”* – so I thought I’d add my own slant
Knee-deep in wildlife
Our house has a rather lovely garden, although some of the fixtures are a little on the dated side. We recently had fences put up so we can release The Hound into the yard without fear of him escaping or