I loved my primary school library collection of Richmal Crompton’s “Just William” stories written in the 1920s to 1960s. William’s adventures were set in a well-off English village, which was close enough to London for...
I go to a dental practice which is quick to adopt the most up to date treatments. On a previous visit I was advised that “best practice” for dental hygiene was to brush with toothpaste and not rinse! That’s right, no rinse...
Don’t you just love clickbait headlines in online media? Clickbait story titles ask a question or state a fact or attitude that prods your curiosity or stokes your outrage. It bothers you so much that you just...
There I was driving behind a big tipper truck full of dirt, emblazoned with the company name and motto: “DIRT-TEK – For all your dirt technology needs phone 1-800-DIRT” I imagine there is a lot of technology...
“Like the dinosaur, big-box stores have been getting steadily larger. That was handy for devouring smaller competitors, but not much use against insurmountably large and unavoidable problems like asteroids….” from...
OK, I’m ready to confess here and now. I confess that I often send emails to myself. It’s sad really, like the old song “I’m going to sit right down and write myself a letter (and make believe it came from you)”...
What I am talking about is a piece of paper or a smartphone code that gives me a discount price. Voucher, coupon, whichever, whatever. Naturally there is a hierarchy in the world of vouchers as there is in the world...
I was about to go into my favourite coffee shop when I saw a strange sight across the road. What was that man doing rolling an office chair along the footpath towards the train station ? No, wait! As he trundled past me I...
“Jiggers used to stand and breathe at the open window for half an hour before dressing. He said it expanded his lungs. He might of course, have done it at a shoe store with a boot stretcher, but after all it cost him...
“There there” said the doting mother to her six year old son who had fallen over and cracked the screen of his phone for the third time in four weeks. “What’s the lesson we’ve learnt this month from all this...
