For seven days I am blogging about any topic that my readers see fit to get me to write about, having asked on here and on Twitter. Here, for your reading delectation, is Day Four, subject submitted by [last year's girl] Dear Rosie. As I write this, your Mum has gone to work, and you are sat in the [...]
For seven days I am blogging about any topic that my readers see fit to get me to write about, having asked on here and on Twitter. Here, for your reading delectation, is Day Four, subject submitted by Fiona Gemmell. One of the bewildering things about becoming a parent is the lack of basic instructions. If you go to [...]
For the next seven days I am going to blog about any topic that my readers see fit to get me to write about, having asked on here and on Twitter. Here, for your reading delectation, is Day Two, subject submitted by @gregeden on twitter. I consider myself to be quite the connoisseur of festivals, having been [...]
For the next seven days I am going to blog about any topic that my readers see fit to get me to write about, having asked on here and on Twitter. Here, for your reading delectation, is Day Two, subject submitted by @tylermassey on twitter. As regular visitors of this site will know, I was educated at [...]
For the next seven days I am going to blog about any topic that my readers see fit to get me to write about, having asked on here and on Twitter. Here, for your reading delectation, is Day One, submitted by @punk_beatz on twitter. Back in my university partying days, when I lived in Sunderland, I found [...]
Since my last post I’ve been suffering a slight dearth of inspiration, just in time to coincide with the shiny new website. And so I’ve decided to set myself a mini-challenge. But it’s going to require a little bit of help from you, dear reader. For the next seven days I am going to blog [...]
So I opened up the topic for today’s post to the hordes of twitter, hoping for some subject I could really get my teeth into, so to speak, and some smart alec suggested the topic of marzipan, the almond based sugary topping of a thousand wedding cakes. I don’t even like marzipan. About a year or so [...]
In this time of economic apocalypse and global pandemics, I can’t help but wonder what life would be like if the comics I grew up with were real. Would the current insanity over American healthcare be solved by Batman? Would Superman stop global warming? But alas, we live in a world where no such extraordinary beings [...]
Well hello there! Do come in, but please try not to tramp mud all over the place will you? So this is the new home of my blog, relocated from 100yen. If you’ve made the long journey from there to here then thank you. As you can see, I’ve not quite got the place up [...]
Woke up this morning to find that a writing hero of mine, John Hughes, has died aged 59 of a heart attack. Unlike a lot of recent celebrity deaths, this one has actually shaken me a little. Two of his movies, Ferris Bueller and Breakfast club, hold separate but equally important places in my development [...]
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