Is communication the key to progress in the work-place? If you asked my Granddad that he might say something like “Is the Pope religious?” My Granddad worked for a large firm where communication was absolutely paramount. Granted, most of it was about the football and what happened to who on Friday night and why they got in to that state because they really should have known after the last three times, but a fair bit of it was also about Read the rest of this entry »

Enjoying the summer? I’m not!

It suddenly occurred to me earlier (in-between bouts of profuse sweating) just how much I despise this time of year. Why? Well I’ll tell you why. Here are my top 5 reasons for wanting the summer banned altogether -

1. Heat.

Okay, so the summer is bound to be warm, but don’t you just hate it when the temperature goes right through the roof?

Some days are just too damned hot to move and Read the rest of this entry »

My sister used to love horses, and so me and my brother used to get dragged around to loads of equestrian horsey style exhibition things. It was both terrifying (the horses were enormous and grunted at us in a way that our sister promised us meant they wanted to eat our heads off just like they did carrots–) and boring. What a hellish combination of sorts that is!

So I can’t say I was chuffed when I came across this Read the rest of this entry »

Pigeons: fling rats, horrible disease carrying critters. A bird we could all do without, right?

Actually no; I’d sooner sell my house than get rid of this actually rather unique bird. OK, so yes they may have a knack for pooing on people in public places (and I for one have been many times a victim), but there is much more to the pigeon than meets the eye.

We’re talking a lot.

Did you know that pigeons are one of Read the rest of this entry »

Why is it that so many of us are still so superstitious? Surely we are all too ‘technologically advanced’ to worry about things like stepping on cracks in the pavement or throwing spilt salt over our shoulder?

Well, it would seem not. Even here in the twenty-first century, many of us will go out of our way to ‘avoid bad luck’. So many people will not put a new pair of shoes on the table or open an umbrella whilst Read the rest of this entry »

Daydreamers get a hard time of it. If you’re daydreaming at work then you’re ‘wasting time’ and if you’re daydreaming on the bus then you look strange. But why is this? For what reason has daydreaming taken a back seat to things like playing computer games, searching the web for luxury kitchen accessories and hanging about with a hoody on (not together of course, that would be strange…)? Is it not true that some of the most influential thinkers of Read the rest of this entry »

I didn’t really enjoy reading until I was about seventeen. Don’t ask me why, I just didn’t. Deep down I suspect that it had more to do with the mutual dislike I and my English teacher shared for each other. He made me think that books were something to be avoided, and so I did just that for years, which represents a desert of lost time that I now horribly regret. Since then I have done my best to catch Read the rest of this entry »

Art house cinema, as with the publics’ interest in Botox injections, has been dying for a while. Haven’t you noticed? And, while the bigger cinemas are clearly responsible for this happening, some might say that the art house cinemas themselves have brought this on themselves. It’s not their fault, of course. They are just doing what they’ve always done. And that’s precisely the problem. It used to work, but now it doesn’t.

In Great Britain, which is hardly the Read the rest of this entry »

I like to think of myself as a fairly open-minded Gentleman. And I’ve seen enough in my fifty-one years to be what some might call a ‘man of the world’. But nothing could prepare me for the jogger I was about to lay eyes upon. There he was, running past my road in a swanky new set of running clothing and not using his arms to jog. And that road was notorious for pot-holes, lumps and bumps. I looked at Read the rest of this entry »

Some things in life are just the way they are, and when someone messes with them, things go topsy-turvy. Such as the following: 1) traffic-wardens should always be miserable, because happy-faced ones evoke even more anger and are the bain of society anyway without becoming yet more horrible. (This is something that I have talked to a mate at Botox Cheshire about, he didn’t really dig it). 2) bathrooms should always remain non-carpeted. There is nothing more freakish on the Read the rest of this entry »