Thursday, October 12, 2006

Live the Conrad Nightmare!

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Thank God for the verities of life in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland! When your train is leaving Cardiff Central a...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Honesty: the best policy?

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Once upon a time there was a sort-of-retired-teacher who went down to the centre of Cardiff to look at an exhibition of paintings. He liked ...
Monday, October 09, 2006

Any leads?

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In the endless hours of peaceful contemplation, which is life without school (that’s not strictly true, but near enough when compared with t...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Needful things.

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Let us imagine a conversation. “Do you have a job?” “No.” “Do you have a regular income?” “No.” “Do you own an ipod 60 GB video mp3 player? ...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

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It’s so refreshing to be with someone who does not cringe instinctively when you complain in a restaurant. After the concert in the Millenni...
Friday, October 06, 2006

America, 'tis of thee!

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Someone once called Gore Vidal, “the last living civilized American.” Such a statement is obviously absurd, but in a country that has wilful...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

The Policeman's lot

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I am known, universally, as calm, reasoned and sage. I scorn to jump those instant opinions which so limit the arguments of others without t...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Tax and prizes

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Einstein could not do his tax returns. Why should I try to outshine a genius? Especially when the people in the local tax office are so help...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Mundane to marvellous

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‘Regression.’ That was the word that came to mind when I eventually was treated to the vision that was my signer person when I went to the J...
Monday, October 02, 2006

If it's not one thing, it's another.

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In this thrusting, immediate world, you have to get your grouse in as soon as possible. Why wait for more topical moments to vent your splee...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

Our little life . . .

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As the most exciting things that I have done today are: go to Asda and Aldi; finish reading Bragg’s book and make lunch, I think it would be...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

What will be, will be.

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Five past twelve I got up: a lie in. I don’t do lie ins, it just isn’t me. Up with the lark, things to do; places to go etc. etc. But, 12.5...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Culture Vulture Strikes!

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Halifax has come up trumps and we now have two (count them) two viewings on Saturday. So, perhaps it’s not surprising that the downstairs lo...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Blood will have blood they say

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Forgive me if my typing is a little erratic, but I’ve just been stabbed by a rogue fork in the dishwasher. Talk about Life’s Rich Tapestry! ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

To push or not to push

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Far be it from me to pontificate about family life: my experience is limited in scope, if not in depth. However, (weren’t you just expecting...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

What are we supposed to be remembering?

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Have we lost the ability to produce monuments? I ask this having seen the incompre hensible monument to what the taxi driver returning us to...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Trust the Dublin Taxi Drivers

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One of my great discoveries in the past was that you could freeze milk in the waxed cartons (that you could never open, and when you did, th...
Friday, September 22, 2006

The Journey Begins

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I now know what an archaeologist feels like as they unearth artefacts and then, painstakingly, study, record, measure and evaluate each exci...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

10/10 vision isn't everything

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If you are short sighted then, without glasses, the world is a very different place from the world that the sharp sighted see. You learn to ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

In Praise of Swimming

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Swimming, I am told, is the best form of exercise there is. It gives complete, well, exercise to more areas of the body than any other and t...