So much for a quick job replacing the top rail on the balustrade while the family were out. It’s all completely rotten. The whole lot will need renewing. As they say: no rest for the wicked.
Forget the mystery of how the pyramids were made. In our house, the true mystery is how the dishwasher is unloaded to prevent the backlog in the sink.
Twenty-five today. Twenty-five years a Muslim, that is. It was Tuesday 5th May 1998, right after the Bank Holiday weekend. The previous day I had gone wandering across Holborn, suddenly convinced by faith. As I meandered through Covent Garden, this question occurred to me over and over: “Will you leave all of this behind?” By …
I don’t actually know why I was held in such disdain. Was it something I said or did? My face and form? Something a mate said on my behalf? All I know is that it broke my heart.
Isn’t it annoying when you pinch and zoom on a piece of paper, and it doesn’t get any bigger?
I won’t give a name to the condition or disorder I keep alluding to in my writing. I haven’t even told my parents, siblings or wider family about it yet, and certainly not our children. In fact, the only people who know are my wife, the close friend I walk with most Saturday mornings and …
The trouble with Microsoft is they cannot be trusted with their own products. Time and again they abandon them, hanging customers who have invested in (very) expensive hardware or a particular software ecosystem out to dry. As a bit of a nerd with a knack for breathing new life into old tech, I must admit …
We’re suffering from really poor network degradation from our internet service provider this week, as a result of them working on network “upgrades”. You forget how much you take for granted until you’re faced with constant go-slows and time-outs. Yesterday was particularly tricky, for the kids were home, apparently with school work to do while …
Some might say it now looks like a Vienetta icecream, but the important thing for us is that it no longer dominates the room with its dark brown finish. These hand-downs are solid shelves, but not exactly suited to our ickle house. This facelift makes them a bit more cottagy. The only problem now: this …
A Muslim is not duty-bound to support a Muslim. However, they are duty-bound to support the just. We are not to be swayed by the demands of communitarianism. Rather, we’re guided by this Quranic maxim: O you who believe! Stand firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or …
Forget wrapping your AMG Mercedes coupe in colour shifting matt vinyl. You really just need to wrap all that dark second-hand furniture that’s been making the house feel so small. I’m on a roll (pardon the pun).
Congratulations: you pioneered machine learning, gave the machine the keys to all the other machines, and now worry the machine can’t be controlled. Way to go. Shall I start to count down, or will you?
The confusion of a son who thinks dad has only one old friend, seeing a white man wander down the garden path: “I thought your friend was black!”
I’m not sure a jacket made of gold is a good look at a time when twenty percent of the population lives in poverty. Some might say these visuals are tone deaf. It might have resonated with his subjects if he had forgone such opulence during this time of high inflation and uncertainty. Perhaps this …
