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Continue reading →: Good luck everyone in 2017
Skype linked my far flung and not so far flung family as 2016 made its exit. I didn’t go to the pub, but that could have been a sad and lonely experience, just me a pint and some pulled pork watching people having a good time. As it was, mum and…
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Continue reading →: Chuck another pig on the BBQ
New Year’s eve celebrations in the Antelope pub will include slow cooked pork and live music. I have rather taken to their extra pale ale which has a gingery-cum-elderflower bouquet well suited to the post Christmas jaded palate. If mum’s not staying up to see in the new year, I…
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Continue reading →: Built in obsolescence
I don’t like spending more than a tenner a month for my mobile phone usage, but I may have to bite the bullet and upgrade. This decision is being forced on me because my device no longer supports the latest apps. So if I want to have a boarding pass…
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Continue reading →: The best laid plans…
Our family trip to visit my mother over Christmas turned out differently this year. A recurrence of pneumonia landed her in Kingston General Hospital just before the festivities began. My wife and eldest son had heavy colds so couldn’t visit the respiratory ward. With all the wheezing and coughing on…
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Continue reading →: Zen or Phobia
Conservatives are patting themselves on the back. They have a leader they can rally behind and a party that puts UK citizens first. Their slogan “A country that works for everyone” sounds egalitarian, but if you substituted any consumer product for the word ‘country’ it becomes more obviously trite. A…
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Continue reading →: Marketing not Blogging
Where is the economic value in blogging? If you approach blogging from that standpoint you will want to maximise your earning potential. At WordCamp Belfast I learnt how to research the most pressing online questions from which a solutions blog could be built. It makes sense to address current needs…
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Continue reading →: Tortured words
I read a lot of work emails and am often puzzled by the writing style of those who have English as their first language. It is as if the writer is trying to impress the reader with some weird sentence construction or a choice of words that does not fit the intended…
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Continue reading →: Man flu
The heroic exploits of an Information Assistant who soldiers on despite his poor medical condition can never be exaggerated. When he looked down to see that he had leaked down his shirt, he barely paused despite the embarrassment. What a guy! A kindly customer offered him a tissue. She was…
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Continue reading →: MOOC poetry – bereavement
Learning To Mourn by Robert Winner I’m an inexperienced mourner I don’t even know how to begin to cry out like that old man wailing in the next hospital room— oi vay, oi vay—his two sounds beating against the wall. He makes me squirm but I get his message…
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Continue reading →: Such a Night
The after work party was a success. I talked with new people as well as old friends and drank copious amounts of white wine. I might be foolish, but I left the bike at work and got a taxi home. After that my mind draws a blank. I woke up…
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