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Some time ago we bought LarryBStanding a toy – it was on offer for about a tenner at a pet store that’s no longer there, and it was a kind of football-thing with rope tassles attached to both sides through some fabric loops. We figured he’d like it given his predilection for swinging any kind…
The other night whilst washing baby bottles (because this is what I do now) a phrase popped into my head that I don’t think’s ever been in there before at my behest: “chief cook & bottle washer”. Hardly a proposition from Wittgenstein, I realise – I was LITERALLY washing bottles as it came in there….
(Note: I started writing this about a year and ago and am only now getting around to publishing, so it starts as exploration then turns more into a review…) Now that we’ve got a large tiled area to keep clean, and a Labrador to work against our efforts to do so, it seemed the right…
Yesterday I needed to phone my broadband provider to give them the news that we’re moving to another company, on account of the fact that their modus operandi is to sign users up for a certain monthly fee and then 18 months later to double it – entrusting in apathy, I expect, to retain customers…
And here was me thinking I watched a lot of things on the telly in 2020, eh? Who knew THAT was coming… There’s no point lamenting the comparatively few *actual* blogposts between the last one of these and this one, because yet again in a plague-bedecked world there’s not only nothing of import to write…
Get Back – the Beatles documentary. WHAT a riveting 8 hours of film! There are some people for whom this would be the worst thing you could make them sit through. However I thought I’d outline why for me it was the diametric opposite. First & foremost, ever since I learned that there was a…
The challenging thing about when one of your best mates publishes a whisky book is how is it possible to review it with any sense of objectivity? Well, the beauty of this being a personal blog is that I don’t HAVE to be objective – and can just get on with espousing my enthusiasm for…
Back in 2009 when I used to write much more frequently than I do now I had a “series” of what you’d probably now call “listicles”, detailing various of my Top Ten things. It’s a nice easy excuse/format to get a post together, and in some cases makes for some useful Googlejuice*. One of them…
I’ve come to value this blog not only as a means of communicating ideas and information to the thousands of regular readers* but also as a sort of time capsule for looking back at what was happening in the past (and I’ve been at this since about 2003!). So this post isn’t to pile on…
How about that lung-eating virus that kept us all at home all year, eh? It’s normal for me at this time of year to feel some sort of urge to write an “end of year roundup” post about all the stuff I’ve done, in a sort of nod towards the posts I used to make…