So: the surgeons cast me forth back into the hurley-burley. The after-effects of the op were not too bad: little discomfort except that the bowel seemed to have become two: not surprising, really, as, in fact, it had. The main bit still merrily churned away with its peristalsis, but the… Continue reading
As I’ve said frequently before: It’s been a funny old year… I am rapidly approaching the age where the NHS tend to think that you’re past it and delete you from their various bodily monitoring programmes, so I was, in fact, quite surprised when the little ‘shit test’ package dropped… Continue reading
Happy days are here again… 1: The gov’mint… Such as it is. ‘Never in the field of human politics has so much been fucked up by so few in such a short time…’ After the Johnson Sleaze Years we had the ‘Truss me I’m a politician’ shortest premiership (and biggest… Continue reading
Looking back over the last eighteen months makes me realise how dangerous it is to say things like ‘It would be hard to cause more damage than three and a half years of uncertainty and doom-saying…’… Coronavirus did that without even trying. Of course, it had help: the Government’s rather… Continue reading
Happy new year to my reader and, according to some, Happy New Decade: but I’m not so sure. After all: There never was a year 0: see multitudinous arguments about the Millennium! Maybe the new decade doesn’t begin until Jan 1st 2021… Why should this decade (or year) be any… Continue reading
Brexit, of course. The Brexiteers drone on about the ‘will of the people’ while the Remoaners grumble about the ‘damage’… It would be hard to cause more damage than three and a half years of uncertainty and doom-saying… The ‘Will…’ argument is, in my opinion, entirely spurious. OK, so (very)… Continue reading
God: I hate the Internet. Especially the arrogant f*ck*rs who claim to provide a service… Until very recently, this blog (as well as several others) was hosted by an organisation called ‘lifetime hosting’. mainly because it was cheap: a one-off payment for (as the name implies) a lifetime of hosting. … Continue reading
SWMBO has been poking around on the Internet as part of her Media business, and had found rafts of interesting websites (such as Pinterest and Ted) and has been prodding me to ‘get involved’. As a man craving for a quiet life, I did as bid. Now, don’t get me… Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, we spent a few days in Oxford, seeing the sights. We stayed in the Falcon Hotel/B&B in Abingdon Road. Not a bad place and cheaper than we expected. Most usefully, it’s within walking distance of the City Centre – or at least, it started off… Continue reading
Well, I’m seriously impressed… Not! Recently, HP proudly announced that its (admittedly free) training site had enjoyed a re-vamp. Now, I’ve been a fairly dedicated user of HP’s training for over 10 years: I always found it good, if a little clunky sometimes, so I log in to the new… Continue reading