“Christmas” and “routine” are not entirely compatible. Over the holiday period all sorts of routines get disrupted, which is potentially a problem for anybody who is a bit OCD or who just clings onto routines as a coping mechanism.
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
The Christmas routines
December 22nd, 2022 · Comments Off on The Christmas routines · Life
Tags: Christmas
Police actually getting involved in pavement parking
December 19th, 2022 · Comments Off on Police actually getting involved in pavement parking · Life
On Saturday, down in Hampshire I actually saw some Police involvement in pavement parking. Unfortunately their involvement was entirely to help somebody park their car on the pavement.
Tags: Parking
The problem with same-sex couples on Strictly
December 7th, 2022 · Comments Off on The problem with same-sex couples on Strictly · Life
The trend for same-sex couples on Strictly is causing me some problems; not because I am anti-gay but because I am almost entirely ignorant of popular culture these days.
Tags: TV
Practical money-saving tip
November 29th, 2022 · Comments Off on Practical money-saving tip · Life
At the weekend I had a walk into the town centre for a look around. I wasn’t going for anything specific. It was really just to get some exercise and to catch up with some podcasts while walking. As I was just outside County Mall I was about to go into HMV for a browse […]
Moving to Mastodon
November 21st, 2022 · Comments Off on Moving to Mastodon · Life, Technology
I’m not sure I can cope with all the hassle of moving to, and learning about, a new platform, but if Twitter does go completely tits-up it is either that or abandon social media completely. I have mixed feelings about it. There are good and bad aspects to social media. If I decide to just […]
Bad financial planning a speciality
November 21st, 2022 · Comments Off on Bad financial planning a speciality · Life
It is nearly December. The time of year when I remember how bad I am at financial planning. Already my e-mail inbox is over-flowing with reminders of annual payments and subscriptions that will be due in the next month. So far it is RAC membership, motorbike insurance, motorbike tracker subscription, CostCo membership, and probably a […]
Together in electric dreams
November 3rd, 2022 · Comments Off on Together in electric dreams · Life
With all the talk of massive energy bills I found myself in the strange position this week of complaining to my energy supplier that they are not charging me enough for electricity, which is not something I thought I would be doing.
Tags: WTF
On the road again
October 26th, 2022 · Comments Off on On the road again · Life
Having spent a week seeing, and trying to avoid getting run over by, all those mopeds, scooters and motorcycles in Istanbul I was getting a bit of an itch to get on my own bike for a bit of a spin and today I had a good excuse. I needed to pay some cash into […]
Getting some use out of the new black passport
October 25th, 2022 · Comments Off on Getting some use out of the new black passport · Life
Last week I had my first taste of overseas travel since before the pandemic, and the first outing for my new black passport. It wasn’t my first flight of the year: I have had three flights out of Gatwick this year, but all of them were up to Glasgow which is not (yet) a foreign […]
Video nasties
October 12th, 2022 · Comments Off on Video nasties · Life
Today’s post saw the arrival of my belated birthday present from the NHS: a bowel cancer screening kit. Obviously this is going to involve me posting a stool sample to some laboratory. The kit contains an instruction sheet for doing all this, which includes a QR code which can be used to see an instructional […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·WTF
