I was asked yesterday whether I wished to attend the funeral of my old boss, Martin.
The poor chap isn’t even dead yet. But he has battled against cancer for many, many years now and, sadly, he has lost. I’m told he just has a few days left.
He was/still is an immensely popular bloke and it [...]

Finally.
I’ve finally finished my tax return.  The one I should have done last year. The one I thought about doing at the beginning of this year. The one that I actually started last week.
It should have been easy. No need for any creative accountancy and no Nobel award for advanced mathematics required. A straightforward tax [...]

Mrs Masher decided that we should go out for a meal tonight and that my dad should accompany us.  So, on the way home from work, I stopped to pick him up.
As we rounded the corner to my road, I saw three youths outside my house… trying to set fire to my fence! They had [...]

Eating my tea and toast in Tesco’s cafeteria this morning, I was suddenly surrounded by half a dozen police officers.
I wasn’t concerned: I tend to see them in there every Friday, as they stop in there for their break.
But today was slightly different, because one of them was gorgeous. OK, she was no Girl from [...]

I was shocked and saddened this week, to learn of the death of one of my work colleagues.
I’d worked with him myself a few times and he always seemed the happy-go-lucky type, if maybe a bit quiet.  A really nice bloke.
But last week, when he didn’t return home from work and wasn’t answering his phone, [...]

I went to Leicester Square last night with a couple of mates to see La Clique at The Hippodrome.
It was this: brilliant!
Jugglers; singers; magic; trapeze; acrobatics; contortionists, all done with a good dose of comedy. I loved every minute of it.
Having paid a bit extra for the “Posh Seats”, as it said on the ticket, [...]

In keeping with my New Year semi-resolution (I still haven’t done my tax return!), I have finally got round to updating my version of Wordpress - the engine that powers this little voyeuristic look into my life.
Wordpress have released many updates since I first installed it and I kept meaning to update it, but… well… [...]

I was round my sister’s house yesterday, installing an aerial for my niece’s new telly.
When I’d finished, I flopped on to the sofa, feeling exhausted. It hadn’t been particularly hard work, so I assumed it to be just general tiredness left over from the lack of sleep over Xmas and New Year. My eyes felt [...]

I mentioned here a little while ago that I got nicked for speeding.
I went on to say in a later post that Thames Valley Police, in their effort “to educate rather than prosecute” had offered me a Speed Awareness workshop.
Today, I went on that workshop/course (or whatever you want to call it).
I’ll admit that my [...]

Well, Happy New Year to both of you. Let’s hope it is, anyway.
There is a gym that I pass each day on the way to work and the road is at a height such, that I can easily see in through the large windows. When it first opened, there were plenty of people in there: [...]