Days By Philip Larkin What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields. It’s fair to […]
The advantages of underfloor heating
Under-floor heating is something that has grown in popularity significantly in the last ten years. With the modern age moving towards clean spaces, many of us are preferring the neatness of under-floor heating tucked away as opposed to unsightly, bulky radiators. Although you might have thought that it is a modern marvel, it was […]
Aw, man. When it doesn’t seem there’s a bright side to look on…
One tries one’s very best to look on the bright side and unearth the silver lining, however deeply it is buried and however malodourous the thing that is burying it. Lately, however, I encountered a couple of moments for which the opportunity was not immediately obvious. You know? The kind of thing that rocks you […]
Philip Schofield comes out and I’m very cross about it
On bad news and good news
It’s been a bit of a mixed week for Boy Three – culminating with being fired out of a cannon, cunningly disguised as a cement mixer (the cannon, not the child). He has spent much of the last week twanging with worry about coronavirus. Not surprising really as everywhere he turns, news outlets are giving […]
On time: a post that gets dark quite quickly
If the Internet was your boyfriend…
If the Internet was your boyfriend, your pals would be trying to tell you that ‘you can do better’, ‘he’s not good enough’ and ‘they’re getting slightly worried about you’. They’d remember a time before the Internet came along, when it was just you gals together, always there for each other. The gang. One of […]
