Always look as far ahead as possible

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Now they want me to have a blood test (routine annual test for diabetes). I hate blood tests, though, and occasionally pass out. I missed last year’s.

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Damn. Felt much better yesterday since starting antibiotics on Monday evening, no coughing and a decent sleep last night. This morning I’m coughing again, though. Maybe triggered by the cold air on the school run?

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MACHINE OF INTEREST

I asked The Machine to review my review of Person of Interest

Transcript

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GOT CARTER

I started watching Person of Interest almost three months ago thanks to a recommendation from Hippy Steve. Obviously I’m about thirteen years after everyone else, as it first aired in 2011. At that time, I was busy singing songs about one J Carter…. Person of Interest is a post 9/11 surveillance thriller, although I still think my initial impression of the first episode - Minority Report meets Police Squad! wasn’t far off.

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The more his curiosity took over, the less control he had

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I’m so tired I went for a nap, but these corticosteroids won’t let me.

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Add vegetables to tea. Get soup.

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PEOPLE DON'T CHANGE

People don’t change, but they can make good decisions. This is a quote, or the gist of a quote, from an episode of Person of Interest, a TV show I watched avidly for two and a half seasons before rapidly losing interest after the scriptwriters killed off one of the only characters with a fully functioning sense of empathy (who happened to be a black woman) and which therewith descended into a cliched, repetitive, and all-too predictable (yet surprising) slapstick parody of itself.

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Thought I was getting over my cough, but it seemed to be getting worse again over the weekend and last night. Got some antibiotics and steroids from my GP.

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Every time someone mentions Croissant (for cross-posting) I hear big kid’s Mum telling him, “You can’t have croissants for breakfast every morning!”

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DPD FFS!

DPD notified me that their driver had delivered my parcel. “Parcel received by Rhanderg”. That’s obviously not me, and neither did I have my parcel. I saw the DPD van outside my neighbour’s block opposite, so figured he must have delivered there by mistake. But, no, my neighbour didn’t have it (and he’s not called Rhanderg either). I opened a chat on the DPD app. The proof of delivery photo was taken at my neighbour’s door.

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After last week’s early mince pie tasting, I’m road-testing an approximation of xmas dinner. What’s missing?

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I wrote 300 pages of notes and reflections in my personal and work journals in 90 days.

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Four year old every few seconds: “WHAT. THE. HEEE-EEEELLLLLL???!!!”

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MY CHEESE-O-METER

For the best sensation, please read this post at room temperature. Blessed are the cheesemakers. What’s so special about the cheesemakers? Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products. Now, I’m going to milk this for all it’s worth, but I would question the last sentence. I’m going to stick to cheese. Not literally, of course.

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Not the most attractive presentation, but it’s all about the taste sensation. Cheddar on the left. Wensleydale on the right.

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Finally feel like I’m getting my breath back after four days of having trouble breathing in, wheezing and feeling like I’m emphyseming.

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WFH SAVED MY LIFE

I’ve worked from home since the end of February 2020. I transferred all my work and systems online to do so, and while I’m still part-time, in practice I’m now available 24/7 for every conceivable administrative emergency (“Hi David. Please order me some large coloured post-it notes and have them delivered to my home tomorrow” or “Hi David. Please bring £200 in cash to my house this morning so I can pay for my lunch meeting today.

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Coughing like a bastard this morning. Probably shouldn’t have smoked those twenty Roosters my Dad brought back from Kenya thirty years ago.

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I vote for David Coote to replace Gary Lineker.

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The politics of envy?

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Big kid has written a list of all the things that make him angry. Top of the list is bananas.

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I’m officially old. I now require eye drops, ear drops, nasal spray and an inhaler just to start the day.

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Finished a grant application with a colleague just in time to meet tomorrow’s deadline. A massive relief, and hopeful for success. Had hoped to get it done sooner but my covid hangover put paid to that plan. Fortunately we’d done most of the groundwork in advance, but today was intense.

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