Archive > October 2009
The Football Culture.
It’s really – REALLY – time to stop glorifying footballers in this country. I appreciate that sport is important to a lot of people, and football particularly so. Kids in the playground at school make and break friendships on the basis of which team they follow, workmates bond over the latest win or loss of [...]
Clearing the cobwebs
I think we’ve established I have too much yarn, and I tend to buy yarn without any good reason for doing so. However, last night, as I sat in a puddle of self loathing, I suddenly thought “Right! I’ll make myself something” so I zapped over to Spotlight. I was after a kind of lumpy, [...]
Crappy suck crappyness
I’m having a bad couple of days, emotionally. Well, emotionally I’m alright I think, but my self esteem which is barely there at the best of times has been utterly erased. Utterly. To the point where I can’t bear the thought of walking out the door tomorrow morning to go to work. I have a [...]
Nano… again.
Third time is the charm? I started Nanoing in 2007, with my first attempt reaching around 35,000 words. Last year I did much less good, hitting about 20,000 words. This year? Who knows. I actually have a story I’m plotting in my noggin as we speak, and have been brewing it for some time. I [...]
A changing world.
A heavy snowfall tends to make people say “Bah, global warming my arse!” while unseasonable warm in the winter makes people say “Yay! Global warming makes warms!”. Which is why I prefer the term Climate Change, because it has no implication of warmth.
Nature is a balancing act. The death of one kind of plant can [...]
My arm hurts.
I don’t like going to the doctor. I avoid it as much as possible. The only real reason I go these days is because I need a certificate for work. If I didn’t have to prove I was sick, I’d generally not bother. I think it goes back to being fucked around by soooo many [...]
Actually, it *was* racist.
In 1999 a TV show on Aussie TV limped to a thankful end. That show was Hey Hey it’s Saturday, a show that didn’t so much jump the shark as leap the ocean. Over the past couple of weeks there’s been two reunion specials, which have been amazingly well received. I didn’t watch them, to [...]
