Donkeys: Ninjas of the Animal Kingdom

I reckon I’m going to get me a pet donkey. 
For one thing it’d be a really useful thing to have when you’ve just arrived back from the supermarket and have more carrier bags in the trunk of your car than you’re able to take inside with you in one go.
But mainly it’s because they are the [...]

Introducing Informer Books

About a month ago I made one of my most popular least unpopular postings entitled ‘How To Make Money as a Shameless Writing Whore’ – a posting that got some very positive feedbacks from literally ones of loyal readers of this blog.
I said there that I would maybe expand on the idea one day and release [...]

Formula One ‘Interesting’ Shocker

I hadn’t watched any of the Grand Prix races this year at all before, for two main reasons:
1.  My bay-bee tends to hog the TV and it would bore the pants off her.
2.  It bores the pants off me as well watching the cars go round and round without hardly anyone overtaking anyone else.
But I [...]

Fiction Faction

Work has been very quiet for the past 48 hours, which has allowed me to get around to doing a bunch of stuff that I’ve been putting back and back.  One of these tasks was to fulfill my promise to read one of my writer friends’ new manuscript.
This was something that I had been avoiding [...]

How to Steal Music

I am a criminal.  And a shameless one at that, especially when it comes to stealing music.  It has been one of my major pastimes over the past few years, having downloaded around 2500 tracks over the past half decade.
I was at it again today.  As I mentioned in a previous posting, I am going [...]

ForEx is the New Porn?

While wilfing away a day or two ago, I saw a link to a feature called ‘Football - the New Porn?’  I didn’t click on it as my wilfing took me elsewhere, and I’m not a big fan of football (soccer to you Americans), but the headline stuck in my head for some reason. 
It was from some [...]

On Being Bald and Hirsute

Hair only made a very brief appearance on the top of my head between the years of around 1967 to 1983.  It was late in arriving and early in departing.
By the tender age of 19, it was already well on the wane.  A tragedy – at the time of life when most guys are experimenting with [...]

Why I’m Monolingual

Having lived in non-English speaking countries for the past 15 years, one would assume that I would be fluent in at least one foreign language by now.
One would be wrong.
Because, to the annoyance of girlfriends and other friends alike, I remain stubbornly monolingual.
This, they assume, is because I am lazy and stupid.  This is not [...]

Work/Life Imbalance

In recent postings I have described how I am addicted to nicotine and maybe to alcohol.  But I now realize that there is something else that I am hopelessly addicted to and that’s work.
It just became apparent to me over the last couple of days as I have some friends staying with me and would [...]

How To Make A Really Irritating Website

Although I am currently earning my daily bread by selling real estate, I would say in answer to the question “what do I do” that I sell stuff off the Internet.  Today this is property; tomorrow it could be completely different.
So, although I might come over as a complete twat in these postings, I actually [...]