Month: May 2013

It’s Grim Up North

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Hi, So. [ pauses to stare at the blank screen for a moment….. ] I was – am? – in two minds about this evening’s post. Not so much that it’s a surprise expose – OMG! Tubby dude in a dress! – but more that I don’t really have any burning desire to get anything off my chest. I mean, the week has been good to me – all things considered (half term and all that) – and we’re edging ever closer to the warmer rays of summer. There, that’s the obligatory weather comment out of the way too. 🙂 I ‘d like to talk a bit about the recently BBC article on my home town, Nottingham. According to this article, it […]

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“slave screams he thinks he knows what he wants”

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Hi, That’s the first week back after a fab holiday. All in all, it could have gone a lot worse, so small mercies eh? It doesn’t seem long since we were packing our bags for the big trip, and yet, it’s half term for Wee Man and Little Miss already. Another week off? Larks, you’ve just had a fortnight, you jammy so-and-so’s! 🙂 I’m pretty sure I won’t be taking any time off this week coming. I’m keeping it stashed for the next family holiday, so the Ever Lovely Mrs J (who seems to manage to save her flexi-time up – mainly as she works so very hard) will be covering. Oh, and no doubt Mrs J Senior may be […]

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“Words like violence,
Break the silence,
Come crashing in,
Into my little world”

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Hello again dear reader, To blog, or not to blog? That is the question. Whether tis best to STFU, or to prattle on, ensnaring the zeroes and ones of Google’s storage….. Shall we go with blog then? Larks, it doesn’t seem long since I was last here, bashing away at the keys, hoping that some semblance of wit and order would descend. So, I have, as you may have gathered from the last post and MS Paint epic, been away. Not, ‘been away’ as in Her Majesty’s Pleasure (Ed: for our American readers – in jail!), nor locking away in the funny farm either. Although, Lord knows that can’t be far away. 🙂 No, holiday it was and a family […]

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