I Hate Snow

There is no quick emoji for Hate as there is for ❤️; but I hate the snow. It has snowed when I least want it. In England, I never want it, for what good does it do? It’s okay for kids. One time, when I was just of age to be allowed to walk to…

Prompt me why don’cha

Share five things you’re good at. Do you put things down expecting to find them again in the same place? I’m good at that. The Happiness Engineers not so good at that, I think. It was only pointed out to me recently that there’s a daily prompt on the WordPress/Jetpack apps. Why hadn’t I noticed…

Leaving the castle

“ Liz Truss, didn’t she write ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation’? ” said a voice from the side. “ That was a Lynne Truss, though I think it won’t be long before Liz shoots and leaves, meal or no last meal, “ said the wit. I’m not a Tory but…

Suits you, Sir

On the heels of Friday’s sartorial post, I find the shocking news that Savile Row suits sales are down by 40%. Apparently, we can blame it on the pandemic and work-at-home jobs. But I think the tide was already changing… “so glad you mention the missing sleeve, Sir: there’s a 40% reduction in suits.” Even…

This Flat Earth

It used to be said of advertising that only half of it was effective; the only problem was that no one in advertising knew which half. I think the same applies to Google’s user preference bots. Maybe half of the users get satisfaction from its search results and future suggestions; I know I don’t. Remember,…

Censored & Cancelled

I had a message from Pinterest. They’ve removed one of “my” images from my album, “Life & nude”. Here’s what they say; Of course, they don’t say what the image was and I couldn’t begin to guess which it was, out of all the ones collected over the years, as I wouldn’t have saved a…

A Tweet, a Medium piece and a Quora question walk into a bar…

I get emails and I don’t know why I don’t just unsubscribe from these places but, looking on the positive side, they do throw up the occasional thought-gem. ~ * * * ~ Medium “Never trust a person whose tv is bigger than their Bookshelf ” from ‘7 Best Advices from “THE SUBTLE ART OF…

The Flag

I had to visit the old folks yesterday; Dad had an appointment for his eyes and was advised not to drive. Although like most of London the area is busy, theirs is a quiet road of suburban houses, although one neighbour, quite incongruously has a flag pole close to the road from which he flies…

London Creep

I nearly missed this, and I really wish I had. The “flagship” HMV record shop in London’s Oxford Street is now a sweet shop! Worse still, rather than stocking quaint olde English sweets - rhubarb and custards, tom thumb drops, humbugs, winter mixtures, liquorice comfits and creamy bon-bons too name a few - it’s promoting…