Petrol, pasties, and now we have to pay for our garden waste to be taken away by the council – but only in special bins or bags, which can only be purchased from the council. It’s easy to find reasons to join The Glums, and there’s even a certain pleasure in indulging in a moping, …
Month: March 2012
Say what?
Indeed. Or rather, that’s my point entirely. In a sense, anyway. Frustrated yet? I know I am – and I’m the one writing this. There are few things as skin-crawlingly irritating as a writer who doesn’t communicate well. And it’s only really communication when the person on the receiving end actually understands the message. The …
Turn that frown upside down!
It used to be that people defined themselves as being either glass-half-full or glass-half-empty. That, of course, was back in the days when we could afford our own glass. The debate about the relative merits of being optimistic (motivated and aspirational) versus pessimistic (rarely disappointed) will continue long after I’m gone. And we could even …
Stranger than fiction
So, it’s St Patrick’s Day and I wish you well for it. May every stranger knocking at your door bring you glad tidings and a little luck. Now that we’ve done the traditional thing, let me tell you about a stranger who knocked at my door today. All of this, I assure you, is absolutely …
A little slice of life
So there we are, in a cafe. We’ve just had lunch and we’re in search of cake to take home (sometimes, if you look up greedy sod on the web, you can see my picture within the first ten searches). There’s a woman in front of us who’s buying lunch or a coffee or something …
The Lucky Seven Meme comes to call
The Lucky Seven Meme I’ve been tagged by my fellow scribe and all-round creatix Chloe to take part in Jaycee’s Lucky Seven Meme. Here be the rules:1. Go thou to page 77 of your current MS2. Get thee hence to line 73. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post …