Another good month. Decent dry weather coincided with weekends, bank holidays ,and Friday afternoons often enough for me to get out on the bike quite a bit. I got to go out ten times. A couple of those were for local events, but the rest of the time I was out visiting various places in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
July 2024
August 2nd, 2024 · No Comments · Life
For a change I can say that this was unequivocally a good month. Naturally, A lot of this feeling is a result of the election at the start of the month and the pleasure of seeing people like Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg get dumped by their electorate. While still in the afterglow of that […]
If I had my time again
July 22nd, 2024 · Comments Off on If I had my time again · Life, Music
I have seen Sliding Doors and have read a lot of science fiction time travel books, so I know that if I had my time again I should not change anything. For sure, there have been some bad times, but if those bad time had not happened I would not be where I am now. […]
Tags: Cooking
Round the houses
July 19th, 2024 · Comments Off on Round the houses · Life
I had an unexpected bonus motorbike ride last night. Jayne called to say that she could not find her car key so I had to go up to West London to take my key (or as she calls then “the spare key”) so she could get home. It sounds simple enough, but you have to […]
Death by Democracy
July 13th, 2024 · Comments Off on Death by Democracy · Life, Politics
Anybody who has worked in any sort of office job will be familiar with the phrase “death by powerpoint” to describe the arse-numbing boredom of sitting in one place while being subjected to a stream of bar charts and bullet points. This week I coined the phrase “death by democracy” when faced with a local […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections·Labour
Just take my money already
July 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on Just take my money already · Life, Music
A few weeks ago I was in a record shop, Wow & Flutter in Hastings. I was chatting to the owners, Tim and Susan and complaining about how we do not have anything similar in Crawley, or even close to Crawley. I said that there are absolutely no independent record shops or shops selling used […]
June 2024
July 3rd, 2024 · Comments Off on June 2024 · Life
June was a bit of an anti-climax after all the excitement of going over to Germany in May, but although I didn’t get as far as Cologne this month, at least I got out on my bike for more than just local trips. I had a couple of 100+ mile days, one up to Essex […]
The drugs don’t work
June 30th, 2024 · Comments Off on The drugs don’t work · Life
I had plans for this weekend. The weather looked like being perfect for motorbiking; dry, sunny, and warm but not so hot that wearing all that protective clothing makes you melt. The plan was to go down to Worthing on Saturday morning, have a look around town, maybe have a coffee and pastry somewhere, and […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
Close Encounter
June 17th, 2024 · Comments Off on Close Encounter · Life
A slightly odd thing happened the other night. It was about half-past midnight and I was trying to summon the energy to go up to bed. I heard some banging around outside the front door and offered up some silent swear words to the cat, assuming it was him doing his usual trick of wanting […]
Tags: WTF
Am I The Idiot?
June 3rd, 2024 · Comments Off on Am I The Idiot? · Life, Technology
A thought occurred to me today. While I was out walking I saw, as I so often do, somebody talking on their mobile phone and holding it in front of them horizontally. I think it might be learned behaviour from watching The Apprentice or something. Whenever I see this my inner monologue is always “look […]
