Did we start working harder then invent machines to make that easier to do, or did we invent machines then decide to spend the extra time working? I put the robovac upstairs and pressed the button, closed the door on the dishwasher and pressed the button, closed the door on the washing machine and pressed the button. When I came…
I took off my jeans today without undoing the button, or unzipping the zip. I did it really without thinking. Those jeans were, if not too tight, then certainly tight enough to be a little uncomfortable three and a half weeks ago. Bits of me that should not be exposed to the naked eye were squeezed over the top of…
I need to be saved from my life. It sucks. It absolutely, spectacularly sucks. Well, okay, being a natural pessimist prone to exaggeration, maybe it doesn’t all absolutely suck. It seems that only the most important part of my life sucks. The part where I am supposed to be enjoying myself. Don’t get me wrong, I’m reasonably fit and healthy even…
There are many different kinds of travel and I have given most of them a go. My travel does tend to involve drinking, eating, sitting around, relaxing (and gaining weight). This is just as it should be given that you have flogged yourself all year just to get a couple of weeks off, right? The problem with fitting as much…
I had an epiphany. It was like a shot of adrenalin to the heart. Life was passing me by. To be exact, MY life was passing me by. I have a sense of time being short and life being fleeting. We have had a period where too many people we know, people not much older than ourselves, have battled the…