Monthly Archives: October 2014

Saturday 11 October 2014

“TNT Post has changed its name to Whistl,” a leaflet tells me.  OK. Fair enough. Good for Whistl – formerly known as TNT Post. “We’re the bright and innovative postal people, and now we have a name to match.” You wear … Continue reading

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Tuesday 07 October 2014

The New York Bakery Company listens to their customers. The idiots. What do people know? PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING. A few months back they started selling the bagels pre-sliced, or sliced. The pre-prefix isn’t really necessary…sliced? when was it sliced? After? No, we … Continue reading

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Monday 06 October 2014

I listen to an interview with the comedian Josie Long. She is a very positive person and says she thinks being positive is the best way to get through life and that negativity gets you nowhere. She says this a … Continue reading

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Friday 03 October 2014

Continuing my odyssey in space exploration exploration….. You’ll be amazed that for something important that happened in the middle of last century it was all done by white men. There wasn’t an American woman in space until the 1980s. Men, … Continue reading

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Thursday 02 October 2014

I have become slightly preoccupied with the moon – more accurately humans going to and then not going to the moon. It has something to do with this book. I knew the moon landing was a big thing. I’m old … Continue reading

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Tuesday 30 September 2014

Theres a man swearing a lot into his phone. And I mean a lot by my standards, not just regular standards. The person at the other end of the phone is telling him about a boss asking work to be … Continue reading

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Sunday 28 September 2014

At times I couldn’t quite make out if this was a news story or an extract from a geezer’s autobiography. “The judge knew I’d been fitted up. But I had the worst record of all of them. He said I … Continue reading

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