I used to drive a Vauxhall Vectra. It was a lesbian.
Not literally, of course, but it was how I’d remember the licence plate.
Some people can always recall such things, but not me. I’ve never had a problem recalling numbers, but letters have never been too easy. And so, whilst I could generally always remember [...]
It was my daughter’s fourth birthday on Tuesday - yep, where does the time go, and all that.
We had people round for much of the day, and when the last person had finally gone home in the evening, Mrs M didn’t feel like cooking, so I took a quick drive up to the fish ‘n’ [...]
So, what I am I doing for RND? Well, not a great deal really. I’ve dropped a few coins in a few collecting buckets, and that’s about it.
Some people have put in some real effort though. Mike is one of them. He has compiled a list of 100 humourous British Blog posts and made [...]
Sitting in traffic in town yesterday, I easily spotted the Smart car heading slowly toward me in it’s own line of traffic.
It was easy to spot, as it was painted in gaudy advertising colours and all sides of the car were emblazoned with the name of the company who owned it: one of these many [...]
Like many nerds of my age, my first computer was the - then ubiquitous - Sinclair ZX81. It had a whole 16K of memory on a wobbly RAMpack that would fail just as you finished an hour’s worth of typing on it’s horrible clicky keyboard. Data had to be backed up onto your own tape [...]
When I was single and had my own place, I had - it seemed - all the room in the world. This was quite handy, what with me being a terrible hoarder an’ all. But it was also useful as my multitudinous hobbies had caused me to amass a hell of a lot of stuff.
And [...]
Last night, a few friends and I went into that there London to see Spamalot. I’d been looking forward to this for some time now, having booked the tickets several months ago.
Being a lifelong Python fan, I had some reservations before going, despite the critical acclaim the show had received both on Broadway and in [...]