Category: Personal

Happy 40th Birthday Mads! (Not very happy about being moved off our seats, but looking forward to good food and company later)

Forget, if you can for a moment, the sad number of horses who have died in pursuit of an essentially trivial sporting event. Once a year, the Grand National takes over British life for a few hours, leading to people who would never dream of visiting a betting shop stumbling over tiny pens and specialised… Continue reading National Fever!

Not just the results, but the photos. There simply wasn’t time to post them yesterday as the sweepstake took quite a long time to organise and I barely had time to get bets on for Mads and I at the local bookies. First we had the draw …. [image no longer available] There was a… Continue reading National Fever! – The Results

You can call it Modern Art if you like. I say it’s disgusting. It looks perfectly innocent at first until you place your cursor over any of the cute cuddly toys. (No) thanks to Kurt for sending me the link.

This involves two friends I’ve made over the past couple of years and a little guy starting out on a new career. I met Richard when I started working at my current site just under two years ago. Richard’s been totally blind since childhood and it’s be an education and a privilege to get to… Continue reading Marco

… and shudder.

… so wrong. I disassociate myself from this in the strongest terms.

I can’t understand why people think Scots have a bad diet. Class in a … erm … box. Thanks to Mark Rittman for the link.

I really wanted to write about last night’s events in Manchester and I was very harsh at work today in my assesment of the behaviour of a minority of Rangers fans. As well as my genuinely negative feelings, the opportunity to wind people up was irresistible. But the truth is that I can’t bring myself… Continue reading Tommy Burns – RIP

Just a bit of fun, obviously, but there’s some truth in here.