I'm allowing everyone to comment again
Here is some news if you aren't registered with any of the chief blogging websites (Google Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, Blog.co.uk, or whatever) and would like to leave a comment on one of my...
View ArticleBreasts and nipples
I have to admit, I've been long looking forward to writing a post with a title like that! But it has a pretty ordinary genesis.Several days ago, I was sitting in a Brighton pub and discussing bust...
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You just have to make the right connection
Today Fiona went in to have that airbag fault properly investigated at the Volvo dealer at Portslade. I'd already been warned that the labour charge for the fiddly dismantling work, the physical...
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My new shawl
I've just bought a new shawl. This was at the shop at Wakehurst Place, jointly run by the Royal Botanical Gardens and the National Trust. Wakehurst is just outside Ardingly, in the heart of the High...
View ArticleThe fate of books
It has often struck me that we live in the most literate era there has ever been. The ability to read is a key skill in modern life. Inside the home one can get away with listening to words spoken on...
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Ask.fm
Ask.fm is in the news at present, for bad reasons connected with bullying of teenage participants and their subsequent suicide. The Wikipedia article has the background - see...
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Toki Pona
I'm interested in languages, although just now I give no time to learning any. Nor am I very successful when I try - although that might depend on motivation and the teaching method. I dare say that if...
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Hacking it with the Big Boys
Just a quick post - I want to go to bed - built around a photo I took on the way home from the North at the start of July. It shows a lineup of huge container lorries at Toddington Services...
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My four legged friends
They say in the TV and film professions, 'never work with animals', mainly because you can never be quite sure what they will do. I endorse that. However, I quite like most creatures great and small....
View ArticleAsk.fm verdict: dangerous, and a waste of my time
Last night I shut down my Ask.fm account. Well, to be more accurate, I disabled it: it still exists, and can in theory be revived. But it won't be.Nothing much had happened over the three days of this...
View ArticleHormone balance
I now have the results of various recent blood tests - a whole battery of stuff. For me, the two headline results are these:OestradiolOn 14 April 2011 (soon after surgery): 427 pmol/LÂ On 29 September...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome
I've just switched to Google Chrome. I saw it in active use on my cousin R---'s laptop the other evening, and thought, wow, that's quick! And legible too. So this morning, when a not-infrequent update...
View ArticleNumber games and life games
On my Android tablet and phone there is an app called Days Since, on which you set up events you wish to remember (future ones, as well as past ones) and then it will tell you how many days have passed...
View ArticleThree songs all mixed up - but I'm ready for my singsong now!
I continue to maintain that my taste in music is questionable, and might best be described as 'populist'. Certainly, more than the odd sneer has been levelled at the 1,400-odd mp3 tracks on the...
View ArticleNever say never: going back to New Zealand
With some misgivings, but being determined not to deviate from the position as I saw it, I did not send a birthday card (nor the usual small present) to my step-daughter in New Zealand.I should perhaps...
View ArticleCommon People
This is the title of a song on Pulp's Different Class album of 1995. You must surely know what it's about - a student girl with a rich father asks Jarvis Cocker (vocals) to show her how the 'common...
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Gangnam Style and Gangsta
Let me assure you at once that I do understand that there is no connection, culturally or otherwise, between the South Korean swanky-suburban dance fad from 2012 and the ongoing violence-ridden way of...
View ArticleBikes versus cars
I was once very, very keen on cycling. This was when I was thirty or so and living in London. That was in 1982 and 1983, thirty-odd years ago. It was an interest I embraced suddenly, and then discarded...
View ArticleNext door is finally up for sale
My next door neighbour T--- died months ago, in early April. His little bungalow had been his pride and joy. Originally bought with his mum (he never married, nor had a family of his own), T--- had...
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Fatbergs and soapbergs
Did you catch the news item earlier this month, about the gigantic fifteen-ton 'fatberg' that had blocked the drains under Kingston-upon-Thames in south-west London? Here's a link to the BBC News...
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