8 Strange Things About Our Summer Holiday Cottage
Published on 5 September 2019 in Life, holidays, Wales
When you rent a holiday cottage and find it is furnished with eight really strange things.
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Heather
Published on 10 June 2019 in Life, school
It started with a tweet. And ended with a Google search and a fire engine. Also there's some pointless witting on about stuff. Look, it will waste a few minutes of your time, that's the best I can offer.
All the swimming pools I’ve been in since April 2015 – the Stockport, Greater Manchester edition
Published on 19 May 2019 in Life, Greater Manchester, Stockport, swimming
A brief history of local government, Olympians and Paralympians, No Diving signs and an in-depth discussion on swimming pool design changes since the 1980s.
All the swimming pools I’ve been in since April 2015 – the Tameside, Greater Manchester edition
Published on 25 April 2019 in Life, swimming, Tameside
I know! Even MORE about all the swimming pools I've been to! It's just mad! But this one talks about youth, bright blue walls, wave machines, and more. What else could you ask for?
The endless rooms of stuff, boiler flues, and a mysterious phone call
Published on 24 April 2019 in Life, dreams, houses
Every now and then, I have a dream. Well not a dream. A version of a specific dream.It involves us having moved into a large house at some point. And there's loads of junk and stuff left from previous owners. There's a room that needs sorting out. A room we never use because it's full of stuff.
All the swimming pools I’ve been in since April 2015 – the London edition
Published on 16 April 2019 in Life, greater london, Hammersmith and Fulham, London, Merton, swimming, Westminster
Don't say you didn't think this one was coming. Especially not after an extensive blog post about how I track all the swimming I do. Yes, it's every swimming pool I've been in since 2015! Well, in London anyway.
Swim tracking, or what happens when you start logging your exercise in a spreadsheet
Published on 8 April 2019 in Life, exercise, swimming
On Monday 6 April 2015 I went swimming. I swam 70 lengths, in a 25m pool. Later that week I went another three times, and swam an additional 180 lengths. In total I swam a distance 6.25km. How do I know? Well...
Good gawd, what’s he going on about now?
Published on 2 April 2019 in Life, English language, swearing
It's not a phrase I have come across very much in my life. At least, not spelt out like that. According to Google's Ngram viewer, usage peaked in the 1920s. Perhaps everyone exclaimed it whilst doing the Charleston or something. I came across it many years later, in a series of Grange Hill novels stocked in my high school library. Books with stories of Ziggy and Whammo and loads of other characters who had long gone from the TV screen. But which I read anyway. And on every page there seemed to be someone whining "Oh Gawd", "Good Gawd", or perhaps just "Gawd!"
Why restart an old blog, rather than starting a new one?
Published on 28 March 2019 in Life, blogging
When I decided to start blogging again, I had to make a decision. Should I start a new blog and leave my old one where it was? Or should I restart the old one?
So I hear you’re a blogger now, Father Ted
Published on 27 March 2019 in Life
In 2013, I shuttered my blog. Well, okay, it went into indefinite hiatus. I decided to call it a day. So why am I restarting it?