Well, I’m sat here on a Saturday morning waiting for some folk in London to do a few things as part of a disaster recovery test for a client. Going well so far, and I’ve got a bit of spare time and thought I’d have a general ramble about ’stuff’ that’s going on. As far as [...]
Saturday saw us back over in Edinburgh. We did have a great time, but it didn’t start well. Our train, from our local station, was cancelled. Frustratingly, the announcement came after the train was already late, and had already been cancelled for the last twenty minutes (the Cathcart circle, which we’re on, starts and terminates [...]
Why is it that, whenever you have a ‘posh’ or ‘premium’ sandwich or burger, restaurants and shops insist on using Ciabatta bread? It’s too crunchy, hurts my teeth, and really doesn’t impress me. It’s also usually got too much flour on too, and doesn’t taste particularly nice all said.
Today has been very much “one of those days”, where everything seems to conspire against you in every conceivable way. Just because this is my website, and I can write what I like, here’s a concise summary of all that has gone wrong with my day: Felt shit this morning. Probably all those Celtic fans who [...]
With the kitchen now ‘complete’, we’re now looking forward to getting on with our lives after the unnecessary hassles we experienced due to the wrong damn kitchen being installed. Whilst the doors may be the wrong ones (matt white not the high gloss white we specified), everything else is actually looking pretty damn peachy. Folk up [...]
Watching the news today that a person has (possibly) died in Turkey of the human form of “bird flu” (the infamous H5N1 strain is suspected), I’m again struck by the media-driven paranoia that is being built up around this issue (much like the media drive paedophile hysteria). Every worried journalist’s dire prognosis about the mortality [...]
I’ve just completed what I’ve dubbed a “commando shopping trip” into the centre of Glasgow to pick up the last few bits of Christmas shopping. I hate shopping at the best of times, and at Christmas it’s doubly bad for all the queues and ill-tempered folk around It’s a time to be happy, “they” [...]
This lunchtime I was downstairs heating up some soup I’d made over the weekend (note to self, easy on the chilli next time), and I was watching the birds out in the back garden. The garden has a large apple tree, and I’ve not raked up the last of the windfall apples yet. I’ve been [...]
Several things have happened this weekend that have led me to be practically stopped in my tracks for one reason or another, and generally comment about it to Frances. Autumn is here. Driving along Mosspark Boulevard in Glasgow, close to where we live, I noticed that there were a lot of leaves on the road. Sure [...]
I choked on my blueberry muffin this morning when I read in today’s Guardian that Jeremy Clarkson was to get an honorary degree. But that’s not the half of it. I almost had a heart-attack when I read that it was being awarded by my old University - Oxford Brookes University. Having recovered sufficiently to stagger [...]
