Last year, on the old site, I set myself the task of posting an entry on the blog, everyday for the month of February. It wasn’t easy, I’ll readily admit.
And so this year, I have decided to do the same. I daresay, it will be even harder now that I’m unemployed and there isn’t much [...]

I’ve been to the dentist, as I broke a tooth a few weeks back.
A crown needed to be fitted.
Only 300 sovs.
That’s right: Three. Hundred. Bleedin’. Quid!
For one tooth.
Hope you don’t think that was a waste of BBC licence payer’s money.

Well, it seems that my old domain name has actually been purchased by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Yes, the BBC now control masher.co.uk!
They don’t seem to have done much with it, so far though… it just goes to a Beeb holding page. I’m intrigued to know what their intentions for it are.
Meanwhile, I’d like to [...]

Still cleaning out the loft (little bit at a time) and yesterday, in an old cardboard box, tucked away at the back, I found books and sloppy disks all related to Supercalc, Paradox and Wordperfect for DOS - all on 5.25inch disks!
I daresay there are plenty of qualified IT people out there nowadays who have [...]

My daughter was very sick yesterday evening - throwing up constantly. Something she picked up from her little brother, who had it 24 hrs earlier.
When I finally rolled up to bed at about one - after watching what could have been a promising film, but which ultimately turned out to be a pile of poo [...]

The trouble with being one of the great unwashed and being out of work is that I am busier than ever. The current Mrs Masher is making sure that I don’t sit around and enjoy my enforced leisure time, by providing me with plenty of little jobs around the home.
Today, she had me cleaning out [...]

Blimey, I haven’t written anything since last year!
I gave blood earlier this week (Thursday). The chief receptionist at the donor clinic gave me a bit of a rollicking for my Polonium 210 joke last month, claiming I had seriously upset the receptionist on duty at that time, and being heavily pregnant she shouldn’t be getting [...]