Monthly Archives: March 2013

Too Old for This Shit I find myself being challenged to a race by a 4-year-old girl on a push bike. She claims she is faster than a car. In fact, she says, she is faster than a motor car. … Continue reading →

Bewitched There was a woman on the train to Milton Keynes. Well there were several, but there was one specific one sat in front of me on the train and she was watching something all the way down on her … Continue reading →

If you took the last two days of my life then you might get the impression that I am more of a theatre goer than I actually am. So I have to hope I am not being profiled by some … Continue reading →

Leaning Away Tolerance by a definition is as much as something someone can take. But there are numerous elements of this definition which you can ask questions about. Mainly though what is ‘as much as someone can take’? Is it … Continue reading →

How do you Top Leavecember (and to a lesser extent Leavecember 2: Semi-Leavecember)? When you’ve taken almost all of December 2011 off and thereby invented Leavecember how are you meant to top it? I did it by taking half of … Continue reading →

What a day for the people on my team at work. The department has been like Berlin before the fall of the Berlin wall – there was a big wall in it. Well not a wall, but a big group … Continue reading →

Different things were differently expected today – and if ever a blog opened with a statement as pathetically trite as that before then I hope someone did a comment on the blog that said “fucking hell that opening gambit was trite.” Or … Continue reading →

The right-wing journalist, dubbed by some ‘The Jeremy Clarkson who doesn’t talk as much about cars”, Richard Littlejohn is the target of a large(r) amount of vitriol currently because of the death of someone he criticised in his column for … Continue reading →