Month: June 2016

Hi, A long time ago, in a city centre, far, far away, was a young lad from the sticks. I say, lad, but outward appearances can be deceiving and the lies we tell ourselves, doubly so. Said young chap was visiting a polytechnic to see what their software engineer course was all about. He was handy with computers, you see. A bit pants at everything else, but if you can turn your hand to something and escape the sticks, he thought, why not give it a spin? A lecturer turned up and took him and about two dozen other folk around the faculty. Lathes, CADCAM, routers; all that kind of stuff. As the young lad paused by a robotic arm, […]

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Hi, Maybe it’s my age, or maybe it’s just the news, but I’m beginning to wonder: is everything political? This week has seen the brutal murder of LGBT people in America, and the killing of a Member of Parliament, in the UK. I know there are people who really don’t like gay or trans people. I get that, you don’t and much as I don’t understand you; I don’t wish you hurt or suffering. Maybe I wish you’d think again and understand that we’re people, before any other label, but if I could wish for something, it would be a hard call between world peace, or early retirement on full pay. 🙂 There are some T folk I know who […]

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Hello dear reader, Half-term is nearly over and the Jones Massive have, for once, not been away. Instead, we’ve stayed home and had days out to some local tourist attractions. Fun was had by all and we managed to dodge the iffy weather. Just before I went away, I was listening to a co-worker… well, rant. She was, and dare I say, rightly so, rather cross. For sake of her privacy, and mine, we’ll call her B. B was attending a meeting and it was one of those rather unpleasant ones, where the folk who’d turned up, already seemed to have decided what was going to happen. You probably know the sort, where folk start to draw into a single […]

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