Falling Over
I’ve had an interesting evening. Just after departing Paddington Station, for the final hour of my journey home from the north of England, I was about to tex...
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Gcse Computer Studies
The following is an excerpt from this year’s attempt at NaNoWriMothe quest to write a 50,000 word book during November. I am writing a memoir of my history w...
Travelling North Again
It’s Tuesday night, and I’m sitting in a hotel in the north of England once again, 300 miles from home. I’ve already bought “dinner” from the local supermark...
Christmas 1983
The Sony MSX came with a thick book filled with Manga illustrations of some children, and a robot. Apart from my brief foray into programming the decrepit bu...
The First 1000Ish Words
It all began with the unwrapping of a medium to large box on Christmas morning in 1983.
Walking To Town In The Dark
I wandered into the living room a little earlier this evening, and found my better half sitting alone half watching NCIS. The kids had gone to bed an hour be...
Thursday Morning Haircut Club
I split the skin on my right thumb a few days ago, under the edge of the nail. Whenever I put pressure on my thumb, it hurts. I press the spacebar on the key...
Random Utterances
The last few days have seemed like I’m a part of a big machinea machine that has some impenetrably mysterious reason for being. I get up, have a shower, get ...
Learning To Log Out
It’s already 11pm, and I’ve re-written this opening sentence 4 times. The netbook I just re-installed Windows 10 onto is refusing to play ballI wanted to hav...
Stopping At Two Glasses
After getting in from work and eating dinner I asked the kids if they might like to wash upseeing as they had been home all day (it’s half term), and I had b...