I was feeling especially cagey about that night’s first date because, just the night before, I’d gone on a first date that went disturbingly sideways. While it initially seemed like a great conversation with someone who might make a wonderful friend, the guy got drunk, propositioned me, ...
fair or foul, to fleece or steal from anyone or anything that presented itself. At the same time their brutal experience had made them rebels with a cause – the inequities of capitalist America…impoverished slum boys who never missed a chance to decry or one-up the “better-offs” in so...
The word ‘nice’ has often been banned by editors I’ve worked with. The attributive adjective is seen as a nothing word, used to describe anything from Rich Tea biscuits, to mild weather, or a stranger’s demeanour. It’s an archetypal British word, and one Andy is forever linked to....
My mum turned 90 in March this year, after having been on the brink of death several times since she moved into the nursing home, first after a fall, and again last November when she was diagnosed with the dreaded C-word that stopped the world in 2020. She made it through with a sni...
I was frustrated because I wanted to do this blogging thing because it would allow me to contribute financially to our family while still being able to be present with our 3 boys. In my mind, I thought it was the strategies that I was using that caused me to go backwards every couple ...
Victims of crime, particularly serious crime deserve the unqualified support of any government, should they find themselves harmed or damaged by a crime or let down by any aspect of the criminal justice system. This is what, for instance two of the victims of John Worboys sickening crimes ...
So outside of rural areas where game control is still considered “normal” the carrying of a firearm attracts much unwanted attention from “the boys in blue”. It’s got so bad that a Scotsman carrying a just repaired table leg home in a bag got accosted, shot, and killed from behind...
On the subject of everyone’s favorite resource exhaustion attack. Are you gonna make level 40 on Pokemon Go by the end of the year?xcv • November 27, 2020 7:57 PM @O.P. It lived about 68 million years ago, looked kind of like a giant paperclip, and may have had a lifespan...
Everyone started grabbing their luggage and heading out. There was some pushing and shoving, especially among some teenage Dutch boys, but everyone follow orders without complaint! Very unusual….. Luckily it wasn’t raining as we all stood on the other platform to wait for the train. The tow...
(The car situation is still up in the air. Her father is still insisting he will purchase her a car so we are making this plan with that in mind. If he doesn’t, she and I will share our current car as planned.) So in essence, I am offering to pay her auto insurance in exchan...