September means the return to nursery/school/college/University after the summer break. This also means many people returning to work after the frantic holiday season. What do the British press refer to the months of July and August – I believe the phrase is ‘silly season’ This first official week back saw me back in the office […]
New Year New Rules
A New Year, a fresh start, a blank first page in a new bound book of 365 pages. I decided to make some changes. I have never been one to embrace the notion of New Year Resolutions truly in a wholesale form. I prefer to make incremental changes. Consistency, I am told, rather than dramatic […]
Unhealthy Obesssions
What is the human fascination with a car accident? That morbid curiosity to find out the reason for the stoppage/delay (usually on the other side of the carriageway) to our journey. Yet there is the additional desire to discover how horrific said accident was, based on what we can see of the aftermath. I would […]
Summer Anthems
Obviously I am far too old to be listening to BBC Radio 1, but my dearest wife insists on listening to the public service broadcaster in her car. Perhaps as the DJs are so many years younger than me, I have little in common with them and their discussions but on the drive home this […]
Addictive Podcasts
Sometimes I am late to the party, very late, but this does give the added benefit of being able to ‘binge’ listen. On 14th May I came across an article on The Guardian website and was interested to find out more about the Serial podcast, so the next morning I downloaded all twelve episodes and […]
Friday 26th December 2003
The rain drizzled down, as we drove back from Oxford in my friend’s Mazda 6 TS2. He turned up his stereo, to fill the car with suitable festive music. A break in our casual conversation, I began to listen attentively to the music being played. I then asked my friend, C, the artist for the […]
Saturday 9th November 2002
Another week disappears as a distant memory. It has been a good week, with none of the ups and downs, I’ve faced in the past. Less of a roller coaster, and more of a bus ride to the weekend. I knew my destination, it was just a matter of when my ‘stop’ would arrive. Another […]