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Good Grief

by | 2 Feb 2013

I’m just going to type away until something starts to make sense. A while back, I got a phone message from a Canadian phone company, saying that various people had been trying to contact me. Although none of the relevant words like ‘father’ and...

Kodak… ak… ak… ak…

by | 6 Jan 2013

Read the title again: it’s the Martians laughing at what used to be a great company. Here is series of ‘call-and-response’ emails to a company that is finding itself in some difficulties lately. I wonder why? I have highlighted the bits that made me...

Euro Septics

by | 23 Nov 2012

Been away for a while – about which I’ll write under another heading – but I’ve been dragged back, a-seething and a-cursing, on account of the crap oozing out of the British press about the European Union. If no one else but a couple of my...

My Life is a Squash and a Squeeze

by | 9 Aug 2012

OMG, I haven’t signed up with [insert social media here] yet… LOL I used to fill up my life with the music of conversation, the sharing of food and lots and lots of actual music. Things are different now: two Twitter accounts, two Facebook accounts, one...

The Ultimate Pariah State

by | 9 Aug 2012

I mean piraña. It is about time that the world came to terms with the ultimate pariah state, instead of playing games with countries where they can’t even build relationships, let alone atomic weapons. I’m talking about a country that quite literally holds...

Driving in Slovenia

by | 29 Jul 2012

… and there’s no SLO about it… While living in Slovenia a while back, I came to understand more about the national psyche by observing (if possible from a safe distance) the locals in their favourite mode of ego transport. A few things have changed...

22:18 – Esslingen, Germany

by | 27 Jul 2012

The World’s Gone Crazy But I Can’t Get Off Amazingly, here in the middle of Germany, no one appears to be interested in the opening ceremony of the Monopolympics. Bloody marvelous. I bet there’s a lot of Brits who spend much of their lives bemoaning...

Driving to Despair

by | 23 Jul 2012

All Roads Lead to… Driving from Brussels to Ljubljana, one gets a quite different perspective of our European partners, one that shows them in a more natural light. First, it’s through eastern Belgium and into Luxembourg, a route dictated by the fact that fuel...