Tag Archives: Stuff & things

May I take your jacket sir?

So the MA works looms ahead, I have made a few darting nervous forays, nibbling at the edges, doing a bit of that, and a bit of this, not making much progress with anything. It is the classic mistake, I know I need to break it down into manageable chunks but I keep thinking well […]

Why bring that up?

I’m doing some research for an article on motion sickness and have found the delightful and helpful http://www.chuckiebags.com I’m sure you can guess what their product is for. I wonder how long it took them to come up with their company name. I imagine the founding members of the company sitting around the kitchen table […]

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

I went surfing yesterday. Well to be honest it might be breaking the Trade Description Act to call what I was doing, surfing. A more accurate description would be going into the sea with my board and flapping about like winded seal trying to balance on a lolly pop stick. I haven’t been for a […]

Food for thought

I had a lovely dinner around at a friends house last night. We were talking about the anxiety and problems many people have around the simple act of eating an evening meal. I was telling my friend and his wife about my childhood of extreme food fussiness and how my parents dealt with it. At […]

A car by any other name is still a car

A car advert caught my attention on TV last night. The new Ford Fiesta Zetec Climate. I thought this is a most interesting choice given that climate change is big news and most people are aware to avoid catastrophic climate change we need to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. One way to do this is […]