If you’re not careful, there’s potench for murder It’s funny how they say that the red mist descends. In my case, it rises, boiling up from the pit of somewhere dark until everything is fury. This week it was a chirpy PR person’s query about whether or not the thing he had just sent me […]
Christmas shouldn’t be this difficult
Little faces lit up with joy, families coming together over good food and laughter and a few days off the treadmill. The most wonderful time of the year. Why then are so many people looking stressed and knackered? Normally calm children are barely making it to bedtime without a fit of sobbing and minutes are […]
344/365 Christmas jumpers – you can’t make me wear one
What is it with the Christmas jumpers? Every shop is packed with deliberately nasty garments emblazoned with red-faced fat men or horned animals. They don’t suit anybody, make you sweat and prickle your skin. They are a joke and the thing about jokes is you’re not supposed to take them seriously. This year festive knitwear […]
203/365 I’m not your f***ing darling
I saw him coming, bouncing on the soles of his trainers like an athlete at the track, chest puffed out, pounding up the path to the door. Leaflets in his hand, logo on his shirt. Bing-bong. Sigh. “Good afternoon, my darling,” He actually said that. “My darling.” I just looked at him. He must have mistaken cold contempt for interest […]
Bloggers, please remember that PRs and SEO are people too…
In people, spiky isn’t this cute (Adam Foster Codefor via Flickr) Bloggers are, in the main, the most welcoming, kindest, most generous bunch of people you could ever hope to meet – online or off. It’s one of the main, marvellous, things about blogging. And it’s why I’m moved to write this post. […]