LinkedIn really annoys me now. I find myself 'doomscrolling' through the content and then pausing and wondering 'what the hell am I doing...

It was on the tube into work yesterday that I noticed a vivid red sign that declared 'don't stare'. Apparently staring at people is now a...

Many years ago I had an idea of writing a book about the probability of meeting someone with a collection of conditions. Say you were in...

Slowly but surely I'm getting back into the gravy train of air travel. This time at the back of the bus. It's bringing back a lot of...

Our neighbours who used to live next door to us now live underneath us. More fool them we thought given that Loki on our wooden floor...

Getting home from Romania was an ordeal. For some reason we keep organising our lives for the last day of our holidays to be over 11...

I have a tin ear for foreign languages. I recall once in some Arabic country I was working in asking if my client contact had spoken to...

There was a corollary to the party in the Suffolk countryside after we'd dropped the doggie people off at their hotel. We didn't witness...

It's been two weeks since I stood on the scales for my last weigh in. And today I almost didn't do it because I know how bad I've been...

This is a musing from my aeroplane travels last week. Despite the incredible ease in which we can go from Germany to Northern Ireland in...

The party was a lot of fun but it's a hell of a long way out in the middle of nowhere. When it finished at 11:30pm, there were some...

Been invited to a do in the countryside this Saturday and thought it would be a good opportunity to try out one of these personalised...

It's only when you go back to corporate travel that all the tiny irritations that make it such a pain in the arse come flooding back to...

I'm on the corporate travelling trail again, flying hither and thither, which means any aches and pains you have accumulated at home...

Some dental receptionists are chatty and welcoming. And that's often a nice prelude of a thing to experience before shortly afterwards...

Everyone who doesn't live within 3 miles of me saw the Northern Lights over the weekend. So that's pretty much every living soul in the...

This weekend the theme of incredible wealth continued. One of our friends has moved into a bigger house, so Iulia has increased the tempo...

Had a brainwave yesterday. A really diverting one that has fired me up in a way not much else has in a long time. Workwise that is. Don't...

Timing is everything when it comes to ringing the kids. Most of the time they just don't pick up. Then when they do pick up, in Finn's...

The idea that something can turn your stomach and put you off your food must be a concept that the dieting industry should seize upon....