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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011Happy 18th Birthday Will. From Storypeople Quiet Pride (son). There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my son, though some days I’m louder about other stuff so it’s easy to miss that.
aka the saturday rant #1 – Stop following me! It’s my journey and mine alone.
Saturday, January 8th, 2011Another day, another new Twitter follower. Why would an estate agent in Shmucksville, Wyoming want to follow the warblings of a dental business consultant in the UK? For what purpose does someone whose true aim in life seems to be to reduce the weight of the world by selling them flatulence inducing powder & low [...]
Gerry Rafferty – another good man gone
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Away from the wall to wall tributes of Baker Street & Stuck in The Middle here’s something that I first heard a very long time ago indeed from his days with Billy Connolly in The Humblebums A man who gave pleasure to many – RIP Gerry.
Merry Christmas
Friday, December 24th, 2010My love of, and enthusiasm for, “popular” music used to be frowned on by my parents and some of my friends. I am from a generation that was told that The Beatles “will never last”, that The Rolling Stones “were unspeakable animals who should be locked up” and “you can’t take music performed seriously by [...]
The Nativity – The Digital Story
Friday, December 24th, 2010Merry Christmas one & all, do try and leave your keyboards alone for a few days.
Update your complaints procedures.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010I’m in demob mood, it’s the eve of Christmas Eve and there has been an excess of serious stuff to deal with for most GDPs this year. Please take some time away from your profession and resolve to see the farcical in the excesses of bureaucracy that are threatening to take the joy and spontaneity [...]
H&S hasn’t reached West Cork yet
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010The big freeze hasn’t passed West Cork, inspite of being “kissed by the Gulf Stream” as the tourist brochures would have it there have been very low temperatures and snow falls. At one of the dental practices in Skibbereen, the practice owner was quite concerned about the weight of snow on the flat roof of [...]
Some good news from Haiti
Sunday, December 19th, 2010The rather serious young man in the picture is Jose Dessources. Shortly after our son, William, was born Susan & I decided to sponsor a child through Plan International. We were allocated this little boy who is now 17 the same age as our son. He lives in Haiti and looking back at the correspondence [...]
Vote for Roz!!
Thursday, December 9th, 2010I have mentioned Roz Savage in this place before I even made her last book Rowing The Atlantic my weekend read. Quick update – Roz turned her back on a “conventional” life as a management consultant and is now described as an ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental speaker. She is currently closeted somewhere [...]
English Snow
Monday, December 6th, 2010Typically English the writer can’t tell metric from imperial!
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