FOMO and FOHMO
As always, late to the picnic, but I recently encountered the acronymn FOMO. It's not a new type of washing powder, but short for Fear Of Missing Out. It's defined in Wikipedia as : Fear of missing o…
Tagged: personal-stuff
The girl with the parasol
I'm a bit of a film buff - probably not as much as I once was but I love old films, and unsurprisingly Citizen Kane is up there in my list of favourites. There's a scene in there which I've always lov…
Hope springs eternal...
One of my favourite films is 'The Shawshank Redemption'. There are a number of reasons for this - one is that I'm a big fan of the novella it's based on - 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption' …
I think I'm officially decrepit...
The other evening I dropped in to the local Asda on the way home from the office in order to purchase the stuff that I was advised at my 'Well Man' appointment this morning to avoid; bread, danish pas…
Mid-life crisis? Don't mind if I DON'T...
I've recently concluded that I couldn't handle a mid-life crisis. Apart from the fact that I would have had to have had an arithmetically accurate mid-life crisis about 14 years ago, I just don't thin…
Ideas mean shit...it's doing it that counts!
In my last post I described how my mortality had snuck up on me and dumped a rather large poo in my living room in the fact that in 15 years time I'll be pushing 70. See here for my thoughts...they h…
Where did all the time go?
— The other day I was sitting, drinking tea, thinking of nothing in particular when the following thought entered in to my head. "In less than 20 years you'll be 70 years old. When did THAT happen?" …
Back in to the fold
From the mid-1980s until 1995 I was a card carrying member of the Labour Party. Not NEW Labour - old Labour - the Red Flag singing, Socialist leaning, nationalising party that I grew up with as a chil…
Single Sex Marriage....
Well, you know what they say about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread....here I go. Normally I don't post too much on social issues, but this grew out of a Facebook post I made on a friend's…
Seven of Nine and the Illuminati
This blog post started life this summer, after the Olympics. It was a time of great celebration in Britain; after all, according to some people we'd dodged at least three bullets over the Olympic per…