Reading time: < 1 min Just HAD to repeat this quote here, taken from saltation’s stint over at Bacon, Cheese and Oatcakes. “Life is NOT a journey to the grave with the goal of arriving safely in a prettily preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways in a shower of gravel and party shards, thoroughly used, utterly exhausted, and […]

Reading time: < 1 min Back from a pub lunch, one pint of Guinness was all I had but I can already tell this afternoon will be a struggle. It’s times like these that I long for my first job, where a Friday lunch quickly turned into a Friday afternoon in the pub. Ahh the joys of working in a […]

Reading time: 2 mins Firstly, thank you to Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. I’ve always had a fascination with encyclopedias, and can quite happily spend hours skimming through one, picking up all sorts of useless information. Alas that information didn’t include (although when I think about it, it probably did I’ve just forgotten it) a definition of what makes a […]

Reading time: 2 mins Sometimes, when considering what to post here, I’ll start with a passing thought and try and analyse it a little to see what depth it has, and who it relates to me. For example, the Donnie Darko article in the miniblog (on the left there), made me pause and think about thoughts I used to […]

Reading time: < 1 min Just a gentle reminder that tomorrow has been deemed “Wear it Pink” day, in aid of Breast Cancer Research.

Reading time: < 1 min GO BLOG!! Ohh sorry… too much American Presidental Election coverage has addled my brain… That should really be “Blog Rules” as in “these are the rules by which I blog”. This is my site. It contains MY thoughts and MY opinions. I proffer them forth not to have you agree with them but simply to […]