Category Archives: Uncategorized

Well I got my first Covid vaccination as a special birthday gift. (It just happened to fall the day prior). Hooray! Of course it wasn’t at all straightforwards, just getting to the centre turned out to be an exercise in (to quote from Mr Prachet’s Unseen University) “Cruel and Unusual Geography”. Who knew that Sat-navContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (14)”

Given the above number; this should really be a tale of some ghastly mishap and subsequent escape from death with nothing more than an extremely inconvenient injury, (…like the time I got hit by the car, went over the roof, and had not a single mark on me… except the the spot where I’d bittenContinue reading “It’s a Dog Life (13)”

Mostly my “dogs life” is intended to come over in an self deprecatory and dryly ironic tone (I hope?). When life actually becomes a real trial, it is not always easy to sustain the humourous outlook (ironic or otherwise), although in many ways it becomes more important, as it’s the humour (however dry) that canContinue reading “It’s A Dogs Life (12)”

I’m a big fan of Christmas, not until December mind you. I won’t even mention the “C” holiday before that. It’s “Bah humbug!” all the way till Dec 1, then I become the Spirit of Christmas -Present (as opposed to past/future). “Ho ho ho!” (I have the beard and the belly). I’d like to sayContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (10)”

Boxes, my house is filled with boxes! Sady not the present kind with little bows, and tags reading to Dad from Santa… I recall that I asked if anyone was doing anything musical (at all) during Lockdown? Apparantly not, going by the absence of replies. I did however have one brief inspiration myself. I shareContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (9)”

I made the mistake of trying to buy some online postage today. I’ve got 4 cards for overseas and I thought if I printed the “stamps” now I could get them away frst thing and save myself some queuing . “It’s Easy with Click and Drop!” Hmmm. So easy that I’ve already had to inputContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (8)”

Well it seems I have come to a hiatus in the moving process. There is of course still plenty to be done. However until the final legal pieces are in place (“a formality, a mere formality..”), the torrent of paperwork at least is on hold. There will of course be the giant undertaking of changingContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (7)”

I am not normally prey to maukish sentimentality, but I do harbour a (hopefully) hidden ocassional weakness in that direction. Also, for someone strongly grounded in rational pragmatism, I manage to embrace a supersticious belief that sometimes, if you look, the universe sends you signs, pointing the way (or maybe a way). Well the houseContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life (6)”

[Reorded voice] “… We are especially busy helping our customers with their mortgages just now…so it may take longer than usual for you to speak to an advisor… Thank you for your patience…the average wait is 30 minutes…. We are espec….” This was my third attempt in one morning to reach a bank, any bank.Continue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (5)”

I went back to work this week. After seven months of furlough it was a bit of a shock to the system. However I’m only on restricted hours, not the full rolling 24 hours a day that is the joy and delight of shift work in the public transport sector. I’m not really complaining, IContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life (4)”