Miles told me to stop listening to critics who said that I was a clone of his. He said, ‘I know what you’re trying to do. You keep doing what you’re doing. Because if you don’t, and [you] listen to them, they will be playing…
NASA’s flight plan for Apollo 11 from 1969. In itself, a beautiful work of art, only made more impressive by what it represents. And moreso remastered.
Houston: ISS, this is Houston, we’re good-to-go on your return to Earth. Please make your way to the Soyuz capsule and get yourselves comfortable. ISS: Houston, this is ISS. Listen, we’ve had a bit of a chinwag up here. Basically, we’re thinking of extending our…
The original title of this was What Does 239,000 Miles Look Like?, but as with just about everything I write, it sort of evolved from being a simple question to wondering about the sheer scale of distances involved in our solar system. It is often…
As eaten at Shire Restaurant in Southampton. They don’t appear to have a website, but it is a really nice little Polish restuarant at the city centre end of Bevois Valley Road, close to the Jury’s Inn roundabout. It was called something else a while…
…I get to sleep like a starfish. Every. Single. Night. This photo is actually of me. Taken in Coventry Premier Inn in 2017 after the company I worked used to work for took over a store and I pulled a ‘week-long open-to-close’ type shift. Ah,…
Your day was horrible. It started with a run around town doing your checks, and finished with a Manager Meeting when the same old shit was discussed. But the middle bit, the bit where you drove as far as Fareham only to get a call…
I didn’t buy you that bottle of prosecco because I wanted anything in return. I didn’t even buy it for you because it was a couple of days before Christmas. I bought it for you because on that day, the twenty-third, you were a huge…
Finding the time to write is a weird phenomonen. I do sincerely believe this magical thing we call time is located somehwere between Timbuktu and the Bermuda Triangle. Yes, yes, I am aware that both Timbuktu and the Bermuda Triangle are real places. It’s all…
So apparently, 5-a-day isn’t quite what I thought it was. I do admit it has taken me thirty-eight years to figure it out, but I got there in the end. To explain, I assumed 5 glasses of orange juice a-day would suffice, but alas the…
In case not all are aware, the UK is currently traversing the land of political turmoil as I type this, with Brexit causing much consternation up-and-down this fair isle. An off-shoot of all this comes in the form of [yet another] general election, scheduled for…
Worrying you’ve packed all kinds of elicit and prohibited items as you allow your bag to be scanned at airport security. Being unable to stand and leave without first saying “right”. Not hearing someone for the third time so just smiling and hoping for the…
Do you remember that time when a multiple Formula One World Champion was upset so much by the voracity and tenacity of his team mate that he sulked himself into a stupor and left the team he was essentially raised in for pastures new? Well…