Reading time: 3 mins Moving back to my hometown last year brought many memories with it, but few have been stronger than walking past the church I used to attend both through Sunday School and, for most my childhood, as a member of 1st Dumbarton Boys Brigade (BB). I can still picture the halls behind the church used for […]
Reading time: 3 mins Yesterday Apple announced, amongst other things, their new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro. As ever, lots of snazzy videos and chat of technical specification and wonderous features were presented. There are some good things: I like the new side Camera Control button they’ve added, can see it being v.handy once learned. I like the […]
Reading time: 6 mins My Gran was, and I say this with love for a woman that I adored, “a little bit rascist”. She was also a bit of a homophobe, a bit bigotted, and tended to be sceptical of anything that didn’t fit in her world view of being white, straight, and Methodist. That’s not to say she […]
Reading time: < 1 min Recently I was interviewed for an article, about me, that was posted on our company website. Me. I’ve only been there a year! Apparently they must think I’m very interesting (which I am, to me). I was, of course, able to provide more dazzling insights into my suave and considered life – if you are […]
Reading time: 2 mins This is my 6,000th post. Almost 1.5 million words and counting. It’s a bit bonkers really. It’s one thing to consider the time that has passed since I posted my first ever blog post, but quite another to look at the build up stats surrounding this odd little place. Yes I know, if you do […]
Reading time: 3 mins Being a parent is hard. It’s also rewarding, fun, tiring, expensive, and I wouldn’t change it for the world!… but it can be really overwhelming to have so much responsibility. You spend every single day making decisions for this tiny human who has no conception of what he’s doing most of the time, he’s just […]