The road between the city of Bath and the village of Wellow is closed. Well, part of it is. Normally I wouldn't be bothered by such a situation but this evening I was mightily annoyed by it ( Read more... )

I received a spam e-mail earlier on this evening. It starts off with the line:Customer, You are reading an email that women don't want you to see.
I wondered whether that's because women are particularly concerned about my inbox being filled up with nonsense for some reason, but upon reading further I realised that probably wasn't what the authors ( Read more... )

I was re-watching the first two episodes of Gavin & Stacey this morning, for no particular reason than they were on iPlayer and I had nothing better to do. And they got me thinking about something ( Read more... )

The city of Paris is about 271 miles from the city of Bath, yet I have never visited the place. This fact caused some of my Mexican students a bit of consternation this afternoon when I told them. They thought that it was a very poor effort on my part that I'd never made the effort ( Read more... )

I have been in pain all day. Not excruciating agony or anything, but more of an annoying, niggling pain. For when I woke up this morning I discovered that whilst I was sleeping I somehow bit the inside of my right cheek ( Read more... )

Remember last week when I mentioned the guy who lives in my building who asked me how to get into barbershop singing? Sure you do! I cannot imagine that anybody would forget such a fascinating piece of information. Which means that you'll also remember I said that this guy did not reply to my invitation for him to come to a chorus rehearsal ( Read more... )

This evening has been great! For tonight was the evening that no fewer than 21 people turned up to play board games at the gaming group I'm involved with. Well, I think there were 21. To be honest I found it hard to keep track ( Read more... )

I'm usually a big fan of the self-service tills at supermarkets. Anything to avoid actual contact with another human being, and I'm all for it. But there's something about the ones at Sainsbury's that really annoy me ( Read more... )

I was in the local cafe this evening doing a bit of marking before tomorrow's classes when one of the other customers went up to the counter ( Read more... )

I have to write about singing again, since it's pretty much the only thing I did today ( Read more... )