Wife is happy. That’s the main thing. Onto the next job. Shed roof. Then my work is done.
How much can an individual do? Last week, a letter from Trussel Trust, asking us to support their food bank. This week, from CentrePoint, begging us to help homeless youth get back on their feet. Society is in crisis, the system broken for too many. These are structural inequalities we would hope the state would …
Even if you’re a law abiding citizen, nearly any interaction with officialdom nowadays leave you feeling like you’re guilty of some crime. Ring your doctor’s surgery and you will be greeted by a long recorded message telling you not to waste their time, that rudeness will likely get you struck off their list, and aggressive …
Is it heresy to say I don’t want my burger in a brioche bun? Such a strange innovation. I’ll always be a sesame man.
Imagine holding such a positive view of one who once intended to cause you great harm. Are we humans irrational beings, or is there something deeper at play?
Sorry, I can’t take you seriously. You would condemn me as a heretic for occasionally listening to acoustic folk, because I’m a nobody. But you will stand by one who has publicly admitted to what are enormities in our deen, because he is famous and somehow serves your cause. In this warped worldview, I must …
Our rulers tell us they are ideologically opposed to handouts. Swap the word handouts for charity — for that’s what the term is covering — and reflect on how odd that sounds. The wealthy parliamentarians that rule over us and their propagandists in the press are ideologically opposed to charity. I sit on the opposite …
It’s funny: I contemplate for weeks, back and forth, whether to upgrade my phone, before concluding it’s too expensive. But then I go and blow the same amount on timber! Still, looking on the bright side, as my wife says, at least I didn’t have to pay for labour. 🤐 Next job: replacing the shed …
Day off work for, er, work…
Initially, I was worried about my work not being plumb and straight. Then I discovered all our walls are wonky. What is straight, anyway?
For the second time, after weeks of contemplation, I mustered the courage to join a support group for people with my condition. I briefly flirted with an online forum a few months ago, never having met anyone else with this diagnosis, but my membership only lasted a couple of days before I backed out and …
Migrations is too high chants the UK government: net migration rose to a whopping 606,000 last year, they sob. What they don’t tell us is that’s about the number of international students studying in the UK at present, most of whom will return home at the end of their studies, after contributing £40 billion to …
Lunchtime, lazing on the edge of a field, ten minutes from home, recuperating in the sun. Alhamdulilah.
We are not experts. Our experience counts for nothing. If we set a framework up for them, based on best practices, they will immediately unpick it and go their own way. No, they don’t need to wait for the training session to get started; they already know. Indeed, they won’t even bother turning up for …
