Ladies and Gents, we are in the middle of an epidemic. It involves the use of a thumb and a mobile phone. People doing this will walk into you whilst in a trance that is hard to shake off. This happened to me only the other day in the supermarket. A bloke was walking along,…
I’ve got mixed feelings about online dating. Back in the early days of the internet it was a bit different. In the early(ish) 2000’s we had Lycos and I went on that on a whim. There were chat sites that were basically dating sites in disguise…and then there were dating sites which I never really…
From time to time this thing I once heard, springs to to mind and it is as follows: “There’s Only So Many Sunsets” I don’t know where I heard this, but it is something that stuck with me. Of course, what this is referring to is that that we will all only see so many…
Back in the noughties, things like Facebook and Instagram hadn’t reached critical mass, which meant chat sites were pretty popular, along with messengers like MSN and AOL IM. Mobile Phones hadn’t taken over the landscape, so using these things still made you feel like something of a hipster. As you know, when a hipster walks…
Unless you’ve stumbled across some of the stuff I’ve written in the past, you’ve probably never heard of Fisetin. It’s found naturally at low levels in some foods, the highest of which are strawberries. Strawberries are basically the OG for humans in the quest for natural Fisetin. It’s a bit like the food equivalent of…
I’m writing this late Sunday morning and this post is inspired by a song I heard on the radio this morning, which I’ve always liked. The song reminded me of a short story by Michael Marshall Smith, called “When God Lived In Kentish Town“. As far as titles for stories go, that one is definitely…
It’s easy to stare at a page and get writer’s block. What does one even say in a personal ad? I suppose mine would look something like this: 6ft. Blue eyes. Athletic (when the stars align) Enjoys running up hills like Kate Bush, and lifting weights to 90’s rap (playlist update overdue). A lover of…
When I first started this blog I didn’t really have a goal. I just wanted somewhere to post things as an outlet that wasn’t found by doom scrolling on social media. Far away from the madding crowd, so to speak; a space where words can breathe. An outpost or last bastion of word assembly…
Nearly everyone orders from Amazon these days. Some people think that Amazon IS the internet. We order from there because they stock nearly everything and you can get most things the next day. We’re all lazy bastards that like to click a button and have someone magically appear from a van with the thing you…
When I was a kid, I read more than my share of fantasy books. You’d often find me walking through a wardrobe into Narnia or imagining what it was like to cast my own spell. Kids do imagination better than adults ever could and I was all about the magic I could create with my…