Thursday has been renamed. Its now ‘Liladay’. Because that is the day designated for Mel & I to be left in sole charge of our granddaughter. All day. With no ‘help’. Holy shshsh- So on every other day when I post a photo of ‘my’ baby, its just because I want to. It has no – Read More-
Ok, I’ll say it up front: its not normal to have 13 kids. Perhaps they kept trying to have one that didn’t have a blurry face, I don’t know. That in itself is a shame. But whatever the reason for having a multitude (a full football team AND two reserves; an entire basketball match and – Read More-
Yesterday’s picture was two of me gels outside the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Today’s picture is one of the installations there. A really good one. Which had two oriental selfie-stickers walking on it, which you’re apparently allowed and encouraged to do. Even though you want to punch them and tell them to fuck off stop – Read More-
5 hours, door to door. Fredrichshain, Berlin to London, NW. And I reckon that’s good. Its a long way. The Germans have always been efficient. And when the train timetable says ‘8.17’ and the board says ‘8.17’, ya just know that the train’s door will be closing at precisely 8.17. And its all smooth and – Read More-
Its still cold in Berlin. Bright, sunny at times, but colder than… cold places. Berlin’s in the east. So east it could almost be in Poland. A notoriously cold place. But at this time in the great scheme of history, Berlin is not in Prussia, its not part of the Hapsburg Empire, nothing to do – Read More-
Never mind Rachie living here, I almost feel like its ‘home’ here. ‘Specially in ‘our’ new apartment, which is gorgeous. So this is not your regular tourist Berlin, checkpoint-charlie, hitler’s bunker, all the schnitzengruben you can eat, type trip. This is about living here. About supermarkets. They have Lidl AND Aldi. Both within a 5 – Read More-
“I’m going to Berlin on Saturday”, I informed my mate at tai chi last night, explaining my up-coming absence tomorrow. “Are you going in a Lancaster?” he inquired. Which is a bit ‘don’t mention the war’ but I thought rather funny at the time. In fact I’m going EasyJet. Pretty sure its not a bomber, – Read More-
We seem to spend a lot of time arguing gender politics. Not me, specifically, because I’m a radical post-feminist, egalitarian right down to my nob and yet would always give up my seat on the tube for a lady. If she was good looking enough. But its not about me. Theresa May has filled her – Read More-
In Las Vegas this week is the CES, the biggest (obviously; its Las Vegas) techno-gadgetry exhibition in the world. All kinds of useless things of a hi-tech nature are featured there. And of course, lots of robots and robot-things. I differentiate because a robot is only a robot if it is humanish in design. Like – Read More-
The city of Nottingham is famous for two things: Robin Hood and Brian Clough. The first robbed the rich to give to the poor, like Jeremy Corbyn wants to do, and the second was less a legend, more a God to the people of that city. Because Cloughy managed Nottingham Forest football club back in – Read More-