Initially, I’d planned to do this post on Ant-Man and the Wasp, which I had the misfortune of watching the other night. I mean, I loathed the original – being one of the three people who didn’t love it, apparently – and I wanted to let loose some. But seeing as no-one wants to read […]
Turns out this cold is not for shifting. It’s squatted in my throat like a toad, and being a damn sight more productive than I am. Not exactly conducive to speaking in anything above a breathy croak, like Eartha Kitt on a mix of frog milkshake and sulphur hexafluoride. Ah, crazy chemists and their inexplicable […]
Amazingly enough, I am off work today. Booked some leave for the first time since I got there, wrote myself a long list of jobs needing doing. SLD added more, and off I went. Which is, naturally, when I came down with a stinking cold. So, rather than three days spent in a whirlwind of […]
And once again, I decide against my better judgement to delve into the Things Twitter Gets Cross About ™. Surely this can’t end anything but well. I’ve lived a reasonably robust life. In between army and Met, I’ve had a significant number of friends and colleagues who would scoff at the notion of safe spaces, […]
Thanks to the vicissitudes of Real Life™, I am entertaining guests. No, not a euphemism. I am presently sweating over a poaching lobster, rather than getting myself around a medically inadvisably-sized Mela D’Alba and scouring my brain for something you might want to read. But, since last week was Christmas Day, and I figured two […]
The merciless whimsy 