Let’s go round again

Those of you have managed to fight your way through previous missives will know that there a number of shared threads when I go walking. The first is the use of the Tilley hat. The second is that I don’t know as much about where I live as I should. Let me take the hat [...]

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Stainless steel cojones

I live in Sheffield and this morning I took it upon myself to have a wander round the town centre. Huge mistake. Sheffield centre is buzzing with the Tramlines music festival meaning many of the photo shots I wanted were just not available. Still, it was a surprise at just how many people were about [...]

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Sorry seems to be the hardest word

There seems to have been a long list of  recent articles suggesting that PowerPoint is somehow responsible for dull presentations. Of course, my incredulity at those articles were eclipsed by the news that a Swiss political party has been formed with one aim: to ban PowerPoint. I was reminded of my University days wandering round [...]

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Cynicism is easy

I suspect I may have spent much of the last couple if years not caring less about the phone hacking scandal that was slowly unfurling. After all, it was about celebrities and I’m not that interested in celebrity. Yesterday’s revelations about the potential hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone changed things. If true, it represents the [...]

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Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

If that came across as slightly muted it is because my tongue was firmly in my cheek. I suppose I do have an aversion to the “Kiss me quick” mentality but my real irritation at the seaside is the sun. While the rest of you go about your holiday business and “get your bronze on” [...]

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The decline of the man sized bath

I spent much of last week in the heat of Birmingham’s exhibition area. The relative anonymity of the surrounds is more than made up for by the proximity of exhibition centre, hotels and restaurants. How they survive is a mystery to me because the are just so many of them. But, survive they do. The [...]

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Has the era finished?

Fatlads basketball club will not be putting a team into the local league this season. The ideal would have been to have competed in what would have been our tenth season in the local league but it just isn’t to be. The reasons is simple: the lack of players for the first half of the [...]

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Content and form, there is a difference.

The Guardian has a fabulous application for the iPad called EyeWitness. Each day they take one of their photos and publish it in this application along with some comments about it. A couple of days ago (aug 15th) they showed a photo of a view of the floods in Pakistan taken from a helicopter. It [...]

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Look mummy, a huge blancmange

Through a variety of circumstance I’ve found myself playing cricket again this year. I love playing cricket but my five years away has made me forget many things about the sport: 1) it is rarely played by gentlemen. Constant chirping by the fielders can be amusing but can lead to the odd blush because of [...]

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Song du jour 29/07/2010

Today’s ditty for humming is “Carpet Crawlers” by Genesis. How many other songs reference “muttering monks” or “wise and foolish virgins”?

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