Promenade
If ever there were a place to truly appreciate the zoomorphic nature of people, it is among the human bats and pigeons drifting round the galleries of the Royal Albert…
Telecommunications
There is a phone on my desk at work. Someone told me to be wary of answering it, but I am of the opinion that it’s much safer to answer…
Alfie with a straight razor
Normally I’m all in favour of making a bad impression, since it saves you the trouble of being discovered as a fraud later on, but job interviews are a notable…
Touristic information
While tumbling through Holborn Circus and a meandering conversation with my old mate Francis at around midnight last Thursday, I was delighted to discover that there is a statue of…
A very 21st-century wedding
Being unemployed has its downsides, but it does mean that you’re available for unusual experiences that someone in a nine-to-five would have to turn down. I got hitched the other…
Square eyes
Another day, another ad in my in-box that informs me that e-book readers are now reduced in price at various retail outlets. I wonder if anyone has ever bought one,…
Some scraps of conversation from my notebook
It had been a long day, with four kilometres or so trudging across the valley floor to get back to our camp from the bottom of the mountain.‘I’m not such…
Dust jackets and raincoats
Last week I went to Wigtown, Scotland’s self-styled ‘Town of Books’. It’s only a wee place, but it is in a very pretty part of the world, and its inhabitants…
Black pudding and a fried slice
I know it is a tune this jukebox has played before, but the plight of the humble fryup was once more thrust onto my plate this morning. And discontent shared…
Itsy bitsy nano micro
So I was reading a blog today that said blogs were dead. The writer was well aware of the contradictions in this. I wonder what will be next to die.…
