On blog comments

Reading time: < 1 min I always get excited when I see an email in my inbox with a subject line that starts “WordPress:…” as it means someone has commented on one of my blogs. Such a simple delight I know but hey, you take pleasure in the little things I guess. Sometimes that delight is instantly crushed when I…

Chapter 4

Reading time: 4 mins ‘Why not’, he thinks as he circles the advert in bold red ink, ‘I’ve tried everything else’. Wanted: People who can find lost things. He’d always been pretty good at figuring things out, liked reading detective novels when he was younger, and he never failed to find his Christmas presents no matter how ingeniously his…

Observed

Reading time: < 1 min Despite having had a small fortune spent on it recently, the car needed to go back into the garage this morning. I decided that I’d drop the car off, walk to the barber and get my haircut then walk home. Rain permitting. Which it did. All in it’s a couple of miles, mostly uphill and…

Happy NOT doing

Reading time: < 1 min Bit of a manic weekend that, although it is nicely aided by the fact that, as we are owned by a French company, we get the English bank holidays, I have today off. As always I had a few vague notions of things I wanted to get done today. Nothing major, a bit of a…

When not to laugh

Reading time: 2 mins You know those things you already know, that you don’t really need a lesson about? Yeah, those things. The things life sometimes likes to throw at you, like that annoying teacher who would randomly ask you a question just to make sure you’ve been awake for the past hour. That. Hmmm I should maybe be…

About blogging

Reading time: < 1 min If you were attending a conference, and specifically attending one of the sessions that was going to be covering “blogging”, what questions would you want answered? No, I’m not being completely lazy, I already have a good outline of what I want to cover (why, what and how) but it’s always good to get some…