Reading time: < 1 min Ain’t it funny how you are just pootling along, getting things done, ensuring that the six different projects you are working on don’t interefere with each other and basically enjoying your work when BLAM!!! your calendar fills up and four different projects collide on the same few days. Bad planning? Cosmic retribution for past life…
Reading time: 2 mins Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an odd thing for me. I read the books as a child and can still remember both enjoying the original movie and being completely befuddled by it in what was my first experience watching a movie of a book I’d already…
Reading time: < 1 min Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Try as I might I can’t help myself, I just HAVE to compare this to Pixar’s offerings and, alas, it falls woefully short. But that’s not really important, after all this is aimed at the kiddies, so from their viewpoint, does it hit the mark? The story…
Reading time: < 1 min Call it fate, or possibly artistic license, but as I read the news that some of Aberdeen’s taxi drivers are to be given customer care training, lo and behold a taxi pulled up outside and did what all good taxi drivers do; Leant on the horn for a few seconds. Between that and their inability…
Reading time: < 1 min I am fated. It seems that I’m not allowed to read the Harry Potter books without having the endings, the “BIG SECRETS”, revealed to me before I’ve read the books. The previous book was spoiled by a friend who didn’t realise I hadn’t read it yet, she was mortified (bless) and I’m not allowed to…
Reading time: < 1 min How to raise your heart rate Whilst clearing out the garage, including brushing out the corners and ridding the place of cobwebs and numerous spiders, spot a sheet of wood that was once part of what is now your fireplace, grab it from the stack, and spin round, holding it up for your wife to…