Hand-me-down
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Issac Newton understood the importance of building upon the knowledge and wisdom of those that came before him. Mark Twain did when...
View ArticleVerbal Confirmation
To be, to have, to think, to move, all elements of the human condition. All elements of human misery. We may not all Danes, Kleptomaniacs, Philosophers or Removal experts but we all are influenced by...
View ArticleThe next ten minutes
For the next 10 minutes you are mine. I say 10 minutes, but reading this may take a little less than that, I don’t suppose you can read slowly. I have the next six hundred seconds to impart my wisdom....
View ArticleOh the times you will go
Time travel is a one-way street; physics is quite strict on this. We are all heading the same way in time and, mostly depending on speed and altitude, at the same rate. What if I could upset Einstein...
View ArticleLike a kid in a toy shop
Christmas means something this year. It has always had some reason to exist, I’m not suggesting that I’m part of the War on Christmas (not that there is one Fox News) but for the last few years the big...
View Article2014 End of Year Review
That’s it then, another year over and what have I done? In one sense it was not as crazy as the previous few years but it has still gone by in a bit of a daze. I managed to get away without any life...
View ArticleNew Skin
January 1st already, it doesn’t seem like yesterday since it was 2014, which means I need to begin the process of deciding how I am going to change this year (especially as I have been putting off...
View ArticleDaring Do, or how I laugh in the face of danger
I am banned from acts of Daring Do, Mrs G has put a kibosh on anything that I might class as fun. This is mainly because my definition of fun is the same as her definition of danger. This means that I...
View ArticlePictures of me, or Wall to Wall
Now that I am married I have to get used to a number of things; sharing a bed with someone, having to watch documentaries on mental health disorders like hoarding or Honey Boo Boo, and having to...
View ArticleThe Inflatable Boy, or Ha Ha Ha
Got one…I got one, after thinking I don’t have a joke I remembered I do! My normal go to joke that creates mirth and laughter whenever it is told (Mirth and Laughter being another term for groans and...
View ArticleFool me Twice, or Fool me Once
I have mostly managed to avoid April 1st this year, the Feliciraptor decided to sleep in late on my day off and but the time I woke there was only 150 minutes of foolery left in the UK. By the time it...
View ArticleReacting to news, or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Whenever I get some incredible, amazing, wonderfully fantastic news I take the stoic approach that centuries of British gentlemen have adopted which is a well deserved slight curl of the side of the...
View ArticleA bit dusty in here, or Moved to Tears
As a British male I have to hide my feelings, it is the stoic attitude which has led our emotionally repressed nation to greatness. Even being peppered sprayed in the face is an unacceptable time to...
View ArticleGood Samaritans, or The Kindness of Strangers
I thought for today I should let Mrs G speak, it’s my way of being kind and trying to get more people to listen to here rather than me. She’ll shout at me as she’ll want to have written this herself...
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