Back from the Grave 5
Ah yes...I remember now. I had an email exchange with Halle some months back, in which I mentioned these nine posts that I had retracted, and could regard as The Worst Posts I'd Ever Written. And I...
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I really don't now see what was so dodgy about this post, but see what you think. It was a sequel to my earlier ticking-off of Anonymous. It was called Death to the nameless ones! and was published on...
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This next post was a mistake. It contained a photo gallery - a series of pictures of myself to show how I had changed over the previous six years. It's entirely natural to put out such posts in the...
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The penultimate resurrection. A post called Genital surgery - fear and regret, or joy and happiness?, published on 3 January 2013. I wrote when feeling angry about men's attitudes. I soon came to think...
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The final republished post. I am seriously embarrassed by this one. I was self-aggrandising, over-confident, and unnecessarily provocative. I think I was looking for a fight - and very nearly got one....
View ArticleKissing hedgehogs
Two nights of interrupted sleep in the last few days! Last night, I woke up at 4.30am feeling rather too cold under my summer-weight duvet. The weather has changed: nights are beginning to get cooler,...
View ArticlePlease don't fail yet! And down with Nikon!
You might think that with significant extra income on the horizon I'd be planning an across-the-board replacement of all my ageing gadgets. These include my Asus laptop (bought 2006; it runs Windows XP...
View ArticleOne for my Baby
Last Sunday, as I was feeling despondent, a Brighton friend invited me over to lunch, so that we could talk it all away over a good meal and lots of wine. I needn't go too much into why I was feeling...
View ArticleBrighton Street Art
Above is an example of what I intend to discuss and illustrate. But let's first digress into ordinary graffiti. As you approach any large town by rail, especially in south-east England, you will see a...
View ArticleRed meat
This week on BBC2, the documentary series Horizon has been looking at meat eating and meat production. It was hosted by the likeable Michael Mosley, who is the usual hands-on presenter for...
View ArticleTeeth
If you could time-travel into the past, to any era really, one of the things you would first notice would be how bad most people's dental health was. In ancient Egypt, for instance, the everyday method...
View ArticleHey, I don't have one!
Now here's an irritation I could do without - a certain kind of spam. Emails offering me treatments to enlarge my penis. Both length and thickness. My first (and abiding) question is: why do they think...
View ArticleGoodbye, VHS
Yesterday, in a fit of tidying-up, I disconnected my VHS video tape player/recorder, and it's now ready for junking. It was a 2004 model, by Sony, originally bought by Mum and Dad to work with a...
View ArticleHandwriting - something to pay attention to, or something that doesn't matter?
I've touched on handwriting once before, in a post titled simply Handwriting, published on 16 November 2009, in which I said: Now here's a funny thing. My handwriting, which used to be full of spikes,...
View ArticleWillpower boost needed!
It's nearly the end of August, and summer is almost over. Really fine weather is forecast for next week, and it may last, but I think it will inevitably fizzle out by the time I set off, caravan in...
View ArticleAn unbelievable approach from Aisha Gaddafi - and a glimpse into Burkina Faso
I am sure that Readers will be pleased to hear that my efforts to block all offers to expand my non-existent genital appendage have proved successful. The Gmail filtering of all emails containing the...
View ArticleThe corruption of personal memory
Ruby's post on children (see The grass is greener. Notes from the other side. in my blog list, and her post New life on 29 August) inspired me to write a post of my own. But it's too hard. I have so...
View ArticleFrightening plants
I have always been very wary, in fact scared, of certain plants - generally ones with spikes, barbs, thorns or prickles - the sort you can be stung by, scratched by, wounded by, or get impaled on. I...
View ArticleA newer home on wheels?
As regular readers may have gathered, I live for my holidays! And although I would, if I could afford it, enjoy all kinds of different holiday experiences, my resources are limited and a lot of...
View ArticleI thought I'd lost access to Blogger (and with it my whole blog)
I've used the Google Chrome browser on my Windows PC for over twelve months now, and it's functioned pretty well. I would say it's the best Windows browser I've ever used. I installed it on my two...
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