Category: smile

  • the loo roll hypothesis

    Tomorrow hopefully will include admission into hospital for a long-awaited operation. This means that there will be a hiatus in the bloggage production while I am in hospital and for a little while as I convalesce. Just to warn you, however, once I have recovered a bit the frequency may increase (and I am offering…

  • shhhh

    I’m back! It seems like forever since I last wrote any bloggerel, and some of you may think it’s still too soon. No matter, I will follow my usual pattern and ignore the wishes of my readers – all three of you. I have just come back from the last of my sabbatical visits. I…

  • are you wearing that for a bet?

    Today is expected to be the hottest day of the summer so far in the UK. That’s not saying much for this summer, ‘dry’ is good, but it has prompted me to get one of my summer shirts out of the wardrobe. As you can see, it’s the sort of shirt that will attract both…

  • contagious infectiousness

    There are some things we do that are infectious. Some of them are involuntary. If you have ever tried to suppress a yawn you’ll know that it’s impossible. The yawn decides when it’s coming and there’s nothing you can do about it. But why is it that when you see someone else yawn (or suppress…

  • resolutions that happen to be made at the start of a new year

    Do you ever wonder what other people really think about you? Beneath the superficial greetings and pleasantries, what do they like about you? What do they struggle with? I am not being paranoid or self-obsessed (am I?), but I am in the middle of a process at the moment where I am considering the real me…