And some of my terrible childhood haircuts! — During the 1970s, my mum and eldest sister had a few rabbits over a period of years. I remember them running around in the back garden when I was playing outside. I was a bit nervous around them and usually left others to care for them. But I do remember…

We made an exhibition of ourselves — This is part of a series about my old workplace. I spent 20 years there, after leaving college in the 80s. Home Based In 1991, five years after I started working for John, he relocated his electronics business to some ramshackle buildings at the back of his house. (Weird Workplace Stories 28…

My new relationship began after a wet start — It began with a noise Years ago, I did something rather unusual to the downpipe attached to my gutter at home. Unfortunately, it would eventually come back to bite me at the worst possible moment. It all began after my old iron downpipes were replaced with plastic ones. Light rain resulted in an annoying “drip…

2012 was a low point for my physical health, but 2013 was worse mentally — My late wife was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. Her three-year illness was exhausting for everyone — both mentally and physically. There were many ups and downs, and I’ve still not written much about it. During that time, I carried on working until mid-2012. Luckily, I managed to work from…

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. …