Seasons greetings to you. We have just returned from our festive trip around the country visiting relatives and doing all of the Christmassy things that one does at this time of year. Tomorrow though, we are off to Heathrow to climb aboard the paraffin budgie for a couple of weeks in sunny Sydney. Bliss. An …
Monthly Archives: December 2002
Reasons I Like Living in the UK
Number three in an occasional series. Its not the U.S.A. -yet. [Courtesy of Metafilter]
Thirty One Rock Songs
I’ve done it. Probably too late, but why should that bother me, everything I do is late. Anyway, it is coming up to the end of the year and what kind of blog would this be if I didn’t produce some kind of top ten list? For those with short memories, back in November Mr …
Not a lot Doing
A pleasant weekend was had by all. On Saturday we visited the International Half Man, Half Fish of Tax and his family for a festive feast (well, I had a curry and Bobo had chicken chow mein). Yesterday we had lunch with the Christmas-mad-Mahoneys, although what Jo does with her wedding dress on her anniversary …
Wild Boy
Its Friday night, its 8pm and I am at home. The lovely Bobo isn’t though. So let me take this opportunity to wish you all a happy festive season. I, meanwhile, am keeping up my seasonal tradition of being grumpy. Bah, humbug. I love yous all.
Proper Grammar
Can you put your apostrophes in the right places? I can, and do. Read and learn boys and girls. Of course there will now be open season on every word I have written on this (and any other) web site. Which I encourage. Please, find my mistakes and I will correct them.
The Patron Saint of Quality Footwear
According to this article, Spinal Tap is going to be maintained for posterity by the US National Film Registry. To which there is only one thing to say – "We’ve got armadillos in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening." In tribute, I shall be liberally sprinkling my posts with quotes from England’s loudest band.
Observations
I do so like it when my wife phones me up with the sole purpose of whingeing at me. It always makes my day. On a trip out today (not totally unrelated to SWMBO) I overheard a mother berating her two small children. The quote of the week prize was awarded on the spot as …
Diversion
In a small diversion from our usual subject matter, here are a few links to a subject that I think is important, web site accessibiility. These are mainly for Jonny (about time you updated that page old bean). He now makes his living knocking up web sites and of course knows all about this subject. …
Office Humour
There is an email doing the rounds at the moment. It contains the wise, wise words of David Brent. For those of you who don’t read "jokes and other rubbish like that" here are a couple of absolute corkers; "Put the key of despair into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly …