I watched an interesting video on the internet some time ago – detailing a list of dangerous activities that children should be allowed to do; among them “playing with fire”, and “using knives”. The presentation showed inuit children gutting fish, and cooking it on an open fire. It strikes me that the presentation missed something much more basic – letting kids play outside.
Do you ever lose track of which day of the week it is? I have this evening. While staying away from home, I have begun counting the days by the number of sets of underwear I have left.
I know I left the house with a set for each day, and I can look in the [...]
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This is going to be really interesting…
Why are there so many labels? Has political correctness gone so mad that we cannot use plain english any more? While there are of course some people who do suffer from real conditions, and their life is made difficult because of it, invariably these people are the most humble, the strongest, and the last to complain.
This morning finds me on the London train once more – for the first time since I stopped commuting for a project last year. It felt very strange preparing to leave the house this morning – memories of returning to school after the summer vacation came back to me.
What time is the train? What time [...]
While reading somebody else’s blog last night, I realised that my own personal blog isn’t actually about anything in particular. If you read any of the published wisdom about blogging by the likes of Darren Rowse (of ProBlogger fame), in order to be successful, a blog should concentrate on a niche – a subject.
Does the [...]
At lunchtime today, two things happened that made me realise once again that I will be more than glad to get out of the city – to no longer have to ignore the appalling behaviour of others.
In a certain large chemist in Liverpool Street station at lunchtime, a typical career girl in a beret and [...]
Two years ago I visited a client of my employer in central London for five days to hand over the codebase of a huge project myself and two colleagues had worked on night and day for several months.
The five days became a month, which became three months, then six, a year, and finally two years.
For [...]
I worked from home today – for two reasons; firstly the network at the office has been playing up again, and secondly I had a bad cold all weekend so didn’t fancy cycling through sub zero rain to the office.
Working from home meant I was somehow sucked into the lunch routine, and found myself making [...]
While stood on the underground train this morning travelling east beneath London, we arrived at one of the stations and a young guy with a beard and headphones scampered past me to claim the last empty seat in the carriage.
As he turned into the seat, a large older gentleman (perhaps early 50s) appeared behind him [...]
© Cheese and Beans. He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
