I've thought about writing here, a few times over the weekend, but at each opportunity I've decided to do something else.  There are times, and this is one of them, when I'm not sure wh… Read More

I cannot believe Willy Wonka died.  Ok, its not actually Willy Wonka, but its the man we all most associate with playing him.  I'm sort of conflicted because I can't believe he die… Read More

I can remember waking up, when my brother and I would stay with my great-great aunt Violet, and being disorientated and afraid.  I would wake up standing in the middle of the living roo… Read More

I do hate good looking people, and I don't count myself in that because I didn't know I was relatively handsome until my mid-20s.  It was too late for the damage to be done by then - I… Read More

I've been thinking a lot about old stone houses, since I've been dealing with them a lot recently.  I can't imagine how it was for old people to be building things from stone every day… Read More

The flight home last night was extended by two hours because the plane had to make a pitstop in Portugal for more fuel.  Apparently this was because of it flying into a strong head wind… Read More

There's a risk of spelling mistakes when I write a blog entry on an iPad, which is exactly what I'm doing now.  It's the price I pay for not bringing a laptop with me on holiday for the… Read More

There's only so much lying in the sun I can do when I'm on holidays, and I think I maxed out today.  That it's only my second day here is nearly here nor there.  The fact remains t… Read More

Sometimes it seems like nobody is really listening.  I can say things, but really the person I'm talking to is only waiting for me to finish speaking so they can speak.  My dad doe… Read More

Tomorrow is going to be a challenge.  I'm returning, with my nephew, to a grand old house to finish the install of WiFi and cameras.  Grand and wonderful as the house is, it has ca… Read More

I messed up breakfast this morning because I had started daydreaming about how I would kill an attacking dog with my bare hands.  I had to remake part of the breakfast, and all because… Read More

I want to play music while I work this morning, but I know I'll probably miss any delivery men ringing the doorbell if I do.  It would normally be worth it except I'm waiting for a new… Read More

A fair part of my life now revolves around trying not to scratch the screen on my phone.  I had bought a tempered glass screen protector when I bought the phone, but I broke it about fi… Read More

You know what I've come to realise - and its related to what I wrote before about how people battle rationality against their basic instincts - we are often little more than animals.  H… Read More

My father was on an installation with me last year, and managed to have a minor disagreement with an electrician at the site.   My dad is an electrician himself, so he knew what he was… Read More

You can't be angry with a dog for taking a leak on a wheel of your car.  I've tried to be angry with plenty of dogs, especially on farm yards, but I quickly resign myself to defeat. &nb&hell…Read More

The past week has been difficult; not because anything extraordinary happened, or anything particularly awful, but because my view of the world doesn't always match the reality of it.  … Read More

A few brief thoughts in the mere seconds I have between now, showering the grime of myself, and getting to bed. You know what is underrated?  Teeth.  I sometimes forget that these… Read More

There were summers, in bygone years, where I would spend long parts of sun-kissed days by the river close to my home.  There was nobody there and no sound, except for the buzzing of bee… Read More

I don't remember when I last wrote here or what it is I wrote.  It must be at least a week since I hurriedly rambled about something. Tonight has been a late one.  I've been unwel… Read More

I'm apprehensive about working tomorrow because I've hurt my elbow and I know its going to cause me bother.  I hurt it ages ago taking huge screws out of a wall and I've aggravated it s… Read More

Where do I start, dear Internet?  A lot has happened since I last had the emotional wherewithal to post here. The EU referendum has had a lot of my attention over the past week or more… Read More

I was at a wedding on Friday and, upon a brief visit to the bathroom, I dropped my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 down the toilet.  All I'd been doing was tucking my shirt in when I heard a stra… Read More

My trip to Garvagh went well today.  I took Philip with me and we hooked the customer's yard WiFi (which I had previously installed) to his home WiFi and also installed a night-vision f… Read More

I have a job in Garvagh tomorrow, which is going to be weird.  Its nowhere near my little house, but its still going to be odd to be up that way.  I am through the area, now and ag… Read More

I'm back to my 2010/2011 trait of quartering an orange, which I've kept cold in the fridge all day, and eating it before bed.  The difference, between then and now, is that I have a new… Read More

It is with a deep sense of shame (and humour) that I must report that, what I thought was my healthy lettuce, is in fact my healthy radishes.  I noticed that the leaves of the lettuce w… Read More

Some mornings, when I trundle down to the bottom of the garden to tend my vegetables, there are times when I don't want to come back up again.  There's a soothing silence down there, wi… Read More

I'm writing from upstairs in the garage right now.  I've been do it more and more, mostly because the cats come into the garage, from outside, when they know I'm here.  That way I… Read More

I used to work with a man in the university and now he's dead.  Hearing that he died annoyed me, not because I had a really close relationship with him, but because he was so sure he wa… Read More

I was walking past Currys today and I decided to go in just so I could see how much the price of TVs had dropped.  I don't need a TV, but part of me wishes I did because you can get a r… Read More

I'm picking my new van up on Monday after 4pm.  Its 83 cm longer than my current van and a lot more powerful.  Its also fully kitted out in the back to be a mobile engineering vehi… Read More

I'm supposed to be writing letters to customers tonight, some looking for business and some demanding payment for business that I already took care of.  "Taking care of business", do pe… Read More

The problem with the little shrew, who lived at the bottom of Fairy Hill, was that she was terribly lonely.  Of course, being lonely should never be confused with being alone; the two a… Read More

It pains me greatly to see that my crop of lettuces is being continually decimated by night-time creepy crawlies.  One entire set of plants, which are housed in a protective, clear plas… Read More

Its funny how a weekend seems to vanish quicker than any two consecutive weekdays.  I eased into this evening, idle and lazy, slowly sliding towards bedtime like a fat walrus sliding do… Read More

Sometimes I don't remember what I wrote in my blog.  I never completely forget, but there are moments when I search my mind and I'm presented with a fog of nothingness.  I'm not ev… Read More

I still have the wooden pencil case I made in CDT class in my second year of high school.  Its still got, inside it, all the pens, pencils and other gumph I used at school.  There'… Read More

Right at the bottom, left-most corner of my garden, I have a vegetable patch where I grow potatoes, carrots and parsnips.  I have lettuce growing under some small polytunnels too. &nbsp&hell…Read More

I still have my old Nokia 3210 on my desk.  Its been there for months, ever since I found it in a box and decided to see what kind of battery it used.  I have older mobile phones… Read More

I've just ordered a mobile debit card reader for my business.  I can carry the reader on site with me and take card payments using it.  I can also take people's card details over t… Read More

I found a box of red-headed matches today and I tried to light one with my jeans.  That used to be a thing that people would do - light matches by striking them along their clothes.&nbs&hell…Read More

Its so cold that, when the door is open, I can feel it creep upon me in waves of a million microscopic touches.  Its the weather for keeping wrapped up in front of a fire with a piping… Read More

I spent this morning at an agricultural fair where I talked to other companies about my business.  I found synergies and overlaps between what they did and what my company does.  I… Read More

I watched Liverpool play tonight, in the Champion's League, where they needed to win to go through to the next stage.  They only managed a draw and the drama in the final minutes of the… Read More

I beat up a seven year old girl, tonight, with a TV.  I was carrying it out of a shopping centre and I battered her up the head with it.  It was a large TV and I didn't see her on… Read More

A woman in prison recently won her case against the prison system where they had banned the posting of books to inmates.  The judge thought it was perfectly reasonable to allow prisoner… Read More

Somewhere, in another universe, there's a version of me that gets up in the morning and loafs around the house all morning.  I probably make some coffee and then curl up in the living r… Read More

Almost exactly one year ago, all except for an hour, my youngest brother died alone in his flat.  I don't know if anyone else is sitting up right now, thinking and hurting over it.&nbsp&hell…Read More

The sky was blue, a few days ago, and the sunshine was making everything seem a lot less wintry and boring.  I decided I would make the most of the good weather and go for a walk. … Read More

It cost me £41 to have the cat spayed at the vets in Garvagh.  I left her in on Friday morning and picked her up on Friday evening.  She has to go back for a quick checkup, b… Read More

Enthused by a sense of weekend-ed-ness, I thought it might be nice to write something here.  I don't have anything in my mind, but I did begin to think about how lucky I am to be able t… Read More

Most of today was spent lounging around the house.  I watched Liverpool lose a football match between 4pm and 6pm, and a good fraction of the rest of the time I spent watching "An Idiot… Read More

Its a quarter to one in the morning and I'm having toast and tea.  I was in bed earlier, but I have the mother of all colds and it forced me up.  I could sort of get myself comfort… Read More

I just left my tea and a mince pie on the stairs because I had to go back down to get something.  I thought I had all the doors closed but, in the 30 seconds I was away, the cat managed… Read More

In the time, between learning that my brother had died and telling my parents of the news, I bought a muffin.  To this day I don't know exactly why I did it.  It was a skinny blueb… Read More

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