It’s become the Holy Grail, hasn’t it? The ultimate tip – or hack – that will Change Your Life. The one thing you can do that will make you instantly thin, popular and tidy. After all, just consider the enormity of your achievements if only you didn’t have all of everything to do every day. […]
Say I don’t to Leap Year sexism
Leap Year. Cue swoopy violin music and soft focus pinkness The magical once-in-a-four-year opportunity to ask a man to marry you. How romantic and wonderful. What are you waiting for, ladies? Er.. Wait a minute. Unplug the mushy stringed instrument sounds and the identikit roses-for-lovers nonsense. What this is saying is that the only time […]
Christmas reflections: the empty grotto
It suddenly struck me yesterday. In Sainsbury’s in Braehead, since you ask. The Thing that had been worrying me this Christmas, and probably many previous ones too. I was in browsing the bog roll as Boy One was at the Saturday Sweep – the regular have-a-go curling session. It’s a new venture (curling not toilet […]
To be a pinball wizard…
It’s been busy here. I know, I know. Less than two weeks to Christmas, of course, it’s busy and if you’re not busy you’re doing it wrong. Bag-laden folk rushing about with clenched jaws and rapidly emptying wallets. Ho ho hum. Anyhow, it’s not just the annual jollities that have kept me busy… Among other […]
