“Oh, will you shut the fuck up, for cris’sakes!”
That’s me. Shouting at the car radio. As I reach for the off button. Yet again.
My radio listening tastes are somewhat narrow, it has to be said. I tend to eschew all national radio stations, for the most part, though Classic FM sometimes gets a good airing [...]
I finally got round to watching I Am Legend last night.
At the beginning of the film there is a short scene where Emma Thompson (in an uncredited role) is playing a British doctor, being interviewed on TV and she states - in her very British accent - that she has found a permanent cure for cancer that is [...]
I guess I’m fortunate in that I don’t suffer from the man-made malady of Road Rage. Cars can (and do) cut me up; pull out in front of me and force me to swerve and the worst they’ll get from me is a raised eyebrow and a tut. I like to give the benefit of [...]
I have a Monty Python desk calendar, that Mrs M bought me for Christmas. It sits - of all places - on my desk, where I spend much of my time being a nerd and writing this rubbish.
This morning, I tore off the top sheet to reveal the next day - as I do each [...]
On Friday, I started writing a post about bad driving. Though only short, I didn’t get time to finish it.
Then, last night on the way home from a party, we passed this.
Terrible.
When toys get broken or the computer has thrown a wobbler or their Nintendo DS has stopped working, the kids come to me to fix it. Mummies are great at soothing sore knees and cut hands, but broken things need to be fixed by daddy. Daddy will sort it.
‘Cos that’s what daddies do.
When I got [...]
At about lunchtime, the current Mrs Masher bundled the two mini-mashers into her car and took them for a week’s holiday on the coast. I’m too busy at work at the moment to be taking time off, so I’m home alone. Again. Mrs M hasn’t gone on her own though: she has taken a couple [...]
We are finally all Wii’d up.
The missus bought one yesterday. The kids love it. So does she.
Me, I think it’s OK.
Actually, I think it’s a wonderful piece of kit - from an engineering point of view. But as for playing the games… (and some of them were quite fun, admittedly) well, that does little for [...]
I held the knife loosely in my hand and weighed it up. It was just an ordinary kitchen knife: not very big. It would take a long time - and quite a bit of effort - I would think, to cut up a human body with this. And yet, as the tiny, tell-tale bloodspots on [...]