Three Words

I sit here writing to you today from Ducks Deck Canny about yesterday’s trip to Care Guilty Buns. Or more specifically to check out the Epic Iran exhibition at Pokers Apple Lame, after which Mrs P and I enjoyed an early dinner at Punt Limp Trucks before heading home to Hands Second Boat. You either …

Summer 2021

Good news. Summer has at last arrived. It has been an awfully long time coming. We were beginning to worry that we might not have a summer this year. The photo was taken this morning at my club, having just gone for a swim and spa session. That’s the first hole of the golf course, …

This One Time In Mexico

This year marks a full decade since I departed Mexico and came back to the United Kingdom. I still miss Mexico, warts and all. Indeed, it’s the warts that I perhaps remember most fondly and most vividly. Sure, the food, weather and lifestyle were fabulous. Mexico City gave me better material for blogging. I had …

Auntie Beeb

I found myself pondering on the topic of subscriptions this week. Specifically, should I need to start cutting back, which of my monthly subs and memberships gets the chop first? During the three lockdowns I have signed up to a plethora of theatre apps, entertainment packages, fitness apps, magazine apps and more. Some of them …

Jab Done Part 2

I had been waiting for the invitation to get my second dose of Astra Zeneca sometime at the very end of May. There’s a twelve week gap between the first and second jab. But a colleague at work suggested last Friday that if I log on to the NHS vaccine website, I could book my …

Neighbours XVI

In the last episode, the tenants in Flat 12 were on their way out, thanks to their landlord selling up. She had accepted an offer, and the place needed to be vacated by May. But the sale fell through, and despite dropping the price by £10k, it remains unsold. The landlord of Flat 8 has …

Mexile’s Law

I rather like laws. The Rule of Law. Moore’s Law. The many laws of physics, all fascinating. I watched LA Law because it was filmed in Nicam stereo sound, and my new tangled TV set at the time was a Nicam set. But Murphy’s Law made for better viewing. The 1971 Peter O’Toole flick, not …