Recent Posts

Door To Door Electricity Supply Salesmen

1 minute read

We just had a guy turn up at the door selling electricity. Only he wasn’t of course. He was conducting a door-to-door survey on behalf of Scottish Power to m...

A Rare Breed Of Blogger

1 minute read

The more I write and share my own experiences, thoughts, opinions and ideas on the internet, and consume those of others, the more I realise I am something o...

A Few More

less than 1 minute read

A final few photos from our Easter trip to Cornwall. We are home now. Just gone midnight - now the first minutes of Tuesday morning - and I am due back in wo...

Cornwall

less than 1 minute read

We’re at the coast over Easter staying with my parents. In some ways this break feels like a refuge - a break from the mayhem of our normal life - of our hou...

Easter Approaches

2 minute read

What is Easter to you ? To me it’s a time to eat enough chocolate to render a large Rhinoceros very poorly indeed. To others it’s a time to go and sit in a c...

Being Sociable

1 minute read

Over the past few months I have been “hitting” twitter pretty hard - exploring what value might be had through growing the number of people I follow, and who...

Taking Responsibility

1 minute read

I got up at 5am (6am after moving the clocks forward an hour) this morning to watch the Formula One race in Melbourne, Australia. I’m not going to bore you w...

An Attempt To Post More Photos

1 minute read

While reading other people’s blogs I always find myself making mental notes to take more photos - and to share more of them. This is an attempt to do just th...

Parents Evening

2 minute read

Yesterday evening saw us make the journey to school for parents evening while good friends babysat the children.

Decluttering The Nuclear Option

1 minute read

I wage a continual war in our study at home - with paperwork, junk mail, flyers, magazines, letters, envelopes, food wrappers, boxes, cartons, bags, wires, b...