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Category Archive for 'Time Wasting'

Apologies for my absence.  I’ve been pre-occupied over the ‘holidays’ with a couple of other writing tasks that I needed to complete.  Having finished them today I found myself with a few idle hours before returning to work tomorrow and started amusing myself with dreadful similes to tweet.
For those of us who have forgotten, a simile [...]

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I was recently shown a full page advertisement in a magazine that almost had me choking on my coffee. It was for a £29.99 porcelain composition of two figures on either side of a children’s roundabout. One of the authorities quoted in the advertisement described the figures as the most moving statuettes created [...]

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Ritual

Saturday mornings have become a time of ritual for me.  It hasn’t always been so.  At former times in my life Saturday mornings have been a time of chaos or industry.  There were children to amuse, household tasks to complete that could only get done during that brief time of freedom, essays to mark, lessons [...]

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God suddenly appeared.
There I was, minding my own business, when it happened.  Out of the blue.  No warning.  Just came.  God, or rather almightygod, appeared on my screen about three days ago.  And she/he/it has appeared with great regularity ever since.  Just popping up out of nowhere, reminding me of important things, and revealing the [...]

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Just testing the new Wordpress Gadget for the iPhone (m.wordpress.com).
If it works I may find myself posting in those brief idle moments when away from a computer, or like now, when I am sitting waitng for a client who has failed to turn up.
New vistas of creative (or boring) productivity (or time wasting) are ever [...]

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