Eventful Monday
A couple of things caught my attention today, firstly the joy of waking up to the Oscars being the main headline on BBC News despite all the other minor things in the world and at home, such as the internal strife in Libya and the continued recession in Britain. The Oscars annoy more with every passing year, or should I say the BBC annoy me even more every year, don’t they understand that people watch the news for news not back slapping film ...
Twitter-I Don’t Think it is for Me
I have tried Twitter for a week and I have decided that it is not really my cup of tea, I just can't understand hash tagging and all that business. Maybe I have got to that time of life when technology catches up with me, waves as it overtakes, then disappears over the horizon, because I just don't get it at all. I have twenty seven followers which are made up of a few friends, some people my friend Craig attached to me because&...
A Night On My Own
Tonight has been one of those rare occasions as I spend by myself because I have no children with me and my girlfriend is busy doing the make up at a Pantomime. I planned my evening quite well actually, firstly I would go to the gym and tone up my fine body of twisted steel and sex appeal, then I would have a swim, followed by a light and healthy meal in the bar area before going back home to write yet another ...
Accents
There is a girl who works behind the bar at The Grey Hound in Broughton who has an accent I just couldn't get. I am normally quite good at regional accents, but this one was near impossible. It turned out she was from Aberdeen and had an Aberdeen/Grampian accent which is a nothing near Glasgow or even Edinburgh dialect which themselves are poles apart. Glaswegian can in my opinion sound very aggressive, even violent, w...
I have today joined up with Twitter for the third time in the hope that something might come of it, but I think I am missing a trick somewhere because I just don't seem to get anything interesting. I have tried to follow several well known people without anything exciting happening and I now have eleven followers who only appear semi interested in me, probably because I can't think of anything to tweet yet, except that it's raining. If ...