Time to panic! A cookery credibility test draws near
I have no complaints whatever at the way my local social life has taken off since Spring 2015. In fact, I marvel at it. I have made a number of excellent friends. We seem to like much the same things,...
View ArticlePerhaps it was a good investment!
I'm a great believer in silver linings - no matter how dark the cloud. There's always something positive to say about a dire deed that has had to be done. Everyone I've mentioned it to has gasped at...
View ArticleChanging habits
It's funny how you stick with a procedure, once you've got used to it, even though it has become outmoded and superseded by a much easier way of doing things. I've been storing mp3 music tracks on my...
View ArticleFlickr milestone passed
I've done it - achieved one million viewings on the photo-hosting website Flickr. I was in Brighton last night, having a meal with friends at the China Garden restaurant, when, on a hunch, I got this...
View ArticleChristmas Cards
If it were just a case of sending and receiving a dozen or so Christmas Cards, all would be pure pleasure. But it often has to be done on an industrial scale, and that turns it into a massive...
View ArticleSummoned to Jury Service
Well I never! I was thinking only this morning about Jury Service, and how odd it was that, at the venerable age of sixty-three, and having been a householder for thirty-five of those years, I had...
View ArticlePay by phone car parking
The battle to park one's car just got one step more complicated in Brighton. Brighton and Hove City Council, faced with on-street parking machines that have mostly reached the end of their life, and...
View ArticleA friend's change of direction
I had lunch yesterday with a friend I'd not spent much time with since last Spring. Oh, we'd said hello several times since then, but we'd not set up a one-to-one day together. Now we had. We had a...
View ArticleMission Accomplished
I've done it. I've finished writing my Christmas cards. I know I intended to try a radical solution to this pre-Christmas chore, but in the end it was simplest to knuckle down to the task as...
View ArticleTwenty years after a father's funeral service
Yesterday went well. My nephew and I went to the church in Upper Sydenham where his father was such an important and well-regarded figure until his sudden death it Christmastime 1995. Michael spent...
View ArticleWiping music off the PC
In my 11th December post Changing habits I'd explained how I had now switched to buying mp3 music tracks from Amazon using my phone, and downloading them directly to my phone for storage and all...
View ArticleCramp
On Boxing Day I drove down to Gosport (in Hampshire), to spend the afternoon and evening with my sister in law Glenda and her second husband Colin. My niece Jenny and husband Kieren were there too. We...
View ArticleMy New Year Adventure
Last year my personal New Year's Day Adventure was to see the sun rise at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, more than a hundred miles away to the west. I was up super-early and drove through half the...
View ArticleOf Charles Dickens, parrots and volcanoes
So...how did my New Year's Day Adventure go? I'll admit at once that it wasn't completely successful. I didn't make it to North Foreland in time to see the sun rising from the cold morning sea. Despite...
View ArticleThree cars to get you noticed
I may extol the virtues and personality of my Volvo XC60, but I do realise that the name 'Volvo'will forever signify something rather boring to a whole section of the population. Which is of course...
View ArticleThe empire takes hold and expands
Nothing sinister meant here! I refer to my growing collection of digital Ordnance Survey mapping, specifically the 1:25,000 10 km x 10 km tiles you can buy online and download to your handy mobile...
View ArticleJust sheer bad luck
I have to admit that so far as cars are concerned I am decidedly unlucky. No matter what care I take, the cars in my life regularly suffer mishaps, and if there is one area where I am particularly...
View ArticleHooked
This is a sequel to my last post. The object in question - which destroyed a good tyre - is definitely worthy of a write-up. Here it is: It somewhat resembles a very hefty iron fish hook, even to that...
View ArticleThe Danish Girl
Everyone seems to be talking about this film. I haven't seen it yet, but I feel I ought to. Two of my friends who have seen it have told me what they think. One (a natal woman) wasn't impressed, and...
View ArticleDavid Bowie dead
Wow, it seems to be the season for knockout news. David Bowie, once so young and vital, now dead of cancer and off life's stage at sixty-nine. Gone forever. The chameleon singer and actor and...
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