I will always remember with fondness the Olympics in 2012.
There was one Saturday morning where a couple of girls won gold in a
kayak/rowing type event I knew little about. I sat in awe as they were roared
to victory by thousands of people on the riverbank. I confess I did shed a tear
of happiness when seeing their joy as they received their medals.
I recalled similar events in Beijing 4 years earlier. The
heats had the occasional passer by ...
Here’s a thing. I was in a famous IT retailer today who, for the sake of anonymity, I will call CP World. I was buying a keyboard for about £15.00 to give their morale a boost as the Coronavirus crisis reaches its dystopian stages.
Statutory Sick Pay
Understandably, the lad who served me was worried. He had
been told that if he showed signs of a cold, he was to go home and self-isolate
and he will get SSP (statutory sick pay). This is ...
This Coronavirus stuff is all going a bit mental isn’t it?
When I started hearing about the chaos with loo roll, I couldn’t help but
wonder whether severe shitting was involved. But no, this isn’t the case, so
maybe people are using rolls of loo paper to build padded cells?
It is hard to keep up and I am not sure who is maddest? Is
it the mad people who have bulk bought loo roll, or is it the people who have gone
mad because they are ...
I was listening to the radio this morning and there was
someone complaining about being isolated from work by Coronavirus. A seemingly
sociable and bubbly (probably annoyingly so) character, she was not looking
forward to two weeks working at home alone.
“Try 23 years”, I said, out loud, because when you work at home alone, talking out loud gets you in the end. I even got to the stage where I would answer the radio and tell the washing ...
People who work at home will understand me when I
admit I talk to myself in the house. I even talk to the dog as if though he is
fully conversant in English. “Ok boy, just putting some washing in, then we
will go for a walk”. I’m descending slowly into madness.
Yesterday, when more great news about the
Coronavirus came on the radio, I said, “Oh just fuck off will you”, and
turned it off. I should be interested, as my shit pension ...
