Given my father worked for the Royal Mail for over thirty years, and that I spent 3-4 months in the summer of 1992 delivering post to the residents of Wells, you might think I feel a soft spot for the Post Office/Royal Mail (I use the term interchangeably, but am referring to the public postal [...]
Once more unto the breach!, and once more we do battle with Glasgow council and associated hole-digging/cone-placing cohorts. We returned from our 2 week holiday to find some of those flimsy barricades around a shallow hole in the ground right outside our house, carefully positioned to cause us great difficulty in getting our car in and [...]
We’re back from our holidays and feeling quite rested, although the drive up from North Yorkshire today, where we’d been staying in the fishing village of Staithes for a few days was awful as it rained and rained and rained all the way up the M6. Normally, you see, it only starts raining when we [...]
In a conversation over dinner recently we started talking about cartoons, and it got me thinking: Is there a Hanna Barbara or Looney Tunes vs Disney schism, in much the same way as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? I never really liked the Disney cartoon characters. All far too mundane and ‘proper’. Donald Duck was [...]
I’m sure many people have memories from their school days. Of course some will be good, and some bad. As Frances and I walked to the local coffee shop earlier, our route took us past Shawlands Academy, and it’s main classroom building looked like of part of my old school, The Blue School in Wells. [...]
Frances and I took a walk down to Glasgow’s Tramway, which is “one of the leading contemporary visual and performing arts venues in Europe“. It’s also only a 20 minute walk from our front door, which is nice. It was a spur of the moment decision, after having seen a mention of an exhibition in the [...]
I wasn’t even half a mile along my usual circuit of Pollok Park this morning when I realised that it really wasn’t going to be a ‘good run’. The rain and wind didn’t help at all, and the prospect of very little improvement in the weather, and a busy schedule, for the next few days [...]
Roger Darlington was very gracious in awarding me a ‘Thinking Bloggers’ award and passing on the meme. Because I like shiny things, I also get to put up the little icon. My site, my rules Anyway, I’ve not been tagged with a meme before, so figure it’s only fair to actually pass it on [...]
One of my clients is currently looking to hire a full time systems administrator (More details here), and we’re finding it incredibly difficult to find the right person. Whilst we do get a lot of CVs, I’m finding it incredibly frustrating getting solid candidates that I even want to interview. On the whole the CVs [...]
Rod Liddle’s programme “The trouble with atheism” (my preview here) was a rather disappointing ramble that didn’t impress me particularly. But then I didn’t expect to be impressed in the first place, so no harm done, eh? But it did highlight some of the unnecessary and sometimes unpleasant smugness associated with some public atheists (but [...]
