I’m not normally one to complain about mortality. Life’s too short. But this week I’ve been suffering with a chronic ailment that has seriously tested my will to live. There are [...]
I know the 1970s are often romanticised as a halcyon age of strikes and power cuts and bad jumpers, but there was a refreshing simplicity about life back then. For example, somebody who lived by [...]
One of the consequences of it having rained non-stop for the last two years is that there’s been a bumper crop of fruit this year. I’ve had so many apples I’ve run out of [...]
The more observant among you will have noticed that the last three words have been Abbreviation, Administration and Application, in that order. “What’s he doing, writing a [...]
A couple of weeks ago I told you about my friend Nick and his somewhat old manish ranting about the modern day proliferation of abbreviations like ‘admin’. He was digging weeds at the [...]
