Walking home yesterday, I saw two young lovers standing in a doorway, wrapped in an embrace and snogging the face off each other.
“Ahh,” I thought, “young love”.
A few seconds later and I was a bit nearer to them. They were still hard at it and were oblivious to the dozens of passers-by.
“OK”, I thought, “that’s [...]

The office where I work has no broadband. In fact it has no internet of any kind. The only phone line is a crappy BT one that is so noisy that any modem connected to it gives up faster than Amy Winehouse on a booze break.
But, I urgently needed to send an email today and [...]

When walking along with the wife and kids, what does one do when an ex-girlfriend is seen approaching from the other direction?
The more confident will be open and honest and will introduce them “Wife, this is my ex-girlfriend from a time before I met you. Ex-girlfriend, this is my charming wife and two children.”
The less [...]

Yesterday, I broke the earphones I use with my PEG and so had to buy a new set.
I’d recently seen the virtues of some noise-reducing headphones extolled on The Gadget Show and thought I’d give them a try.
The earpieces fit most snugly into the ear and this is important for reducing external noise. As such, [...]

I happened to glance out of the window yesterday afternoon and spotted a small film crew in the street behind the office.
There is nothing unusual in this: I have seen dozens of film crews in my jaunts around London in the past few months. Although they appeared to have professional equipment, this particular crew were [...]

Despite not being mentioned, yet again, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, I took me and my camera down to London to see Her Maj - or to be more precise - to see the Trooping of the Colour.
The weather, thankfully, remained dry and sunny throughout most of the day and so I was able [...]

I find the one-hour journey to and from work, on the train, a quite soporific one, and will often nod off.
This morning, as I sat down in my seat, I was pleased to close my eyes as they were itching like buggery due to the current high pollen count. As a result, it wasn’t long [...]

Oh well, back to work.
Seated opposite me on the train this morning, was Germaine Greer.
At least, I thought it was her. I couldn’t be absolutely sure. She was reading a book - the title of which might have given me a clue, but I couldn’t see it. So, I suppose it could have been any [...]

The current Mrs Masher has laryngitis.
She’s walking around not talking to me.
I feel like I’m in the dog-house.

Well, I’m back. Tanned, bronzed and lovely. And still scratching the mosquito bites.
Where have I been this past week?
On a personal pilgrimage (sort of). The rather poor picture shown in this thumbnail clicky shows me sitting upon the walls of the Ribat in Monastir, Tunisia. This was where Monty Python’s Life of Brian was filmed [...]