I’ve had action on the bedroom ceiling, and on the kitchen floor! I’m talking about pests, of course! — Video search I’ve just spent half an hour trying to find a particular scene from 3rd Rock from the Sun — I had hoped to include a YouTube clip. I remember Sally having a canister on her back and spraying everything in the apartment with some sort of insecticide. It made me…

Are they really an accurate reflection of how I feel? — Emoji or emojis I was torn between using ‘emoji’ or ‘emojis’ as the plural. My gut told me to say emoji. But I could see the advantage of being able to distinguish between one and many. There is a long explanation on grammarly.com, and this line convinced me to go with ‘emojis’ as…

And I thought of a manual typewriter, an old newspaper advert, and jeans that needed colouring in — When faced with today’s topic, I had to sit and think for quite a while. And I came up with nothing. I wondered: Is my memory really that bad? Or did my mother not give me much in the way of advice? I thought of one or two things that…

Will they ever stop sending these disgusting emails? — There was a time when I received emails like the one below every day. Thankfully, they are less frequent now. But that doesn’t make them any less outrageous and annoying. I have quoted the whole email below and added my comments in bold. (For your entertainment, I’ve not corrected their…

I can trace the main one back to the 1980s — “I sometimes refer to it as the best TV show ever made!” I probably have enough guilty pleasures to fill an encyclopaedia, so it was hard to choose a particular category. I thought about how I still watch many shows that were produced, written, and/or created by Glen Larson. The…

I still don’t quite know what to make of it — From time to time, my mum would discover a Christmas present she’d forgotten to give me. They were usually tucked away in the back of her wardrobe; sometimes they were wrapped, and sometimes they weren’t. One year, something rather strange happened. I was an adult and still lived with my…

All these regrets have something in common — I could not choose just one regret, so I have listed five. There were plenty of others I could have selected. But I tried to stick to things that I had some control over. 1. Not having children at a younger age I tend to be too cautious and overthink things; my late wife was a bit like…

I have no plans to watch this movie ever again — I haven’t seen a movie at the cinema since before the pandemic in 2020. Until that point, we saw quite a few films each year. We used something called Silver Screen, where our local cinema showed movies a few months after their release at a lower price; they also provided…