nunoncastors

What is the down escalator called?
That is all.

Those with a keen eye will have noticed two new links. They’re nowt special and aren’t even configured properly yet (I’ll be making them all pretty later) but do feel free to play around.
No ham touching though.

It has been said that I’m a callous bastard but this is far from true, I’m a realist. No, realist isn’t the right word. I’m not a realist, I believe in too many fanciful things to be a realist. Realists aren’t sentimental as a rule. I’m not sure what the apt word would be so [...]

It did it again. I run up to the door, get ready to hurl the book onto the counter and flee when, ‘Oh look, Jerome K. Jerome’s Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. I’ll just read a few pages, just a few.’ Next thing it’s seven bloody thirty and I’ve lost another evening.
Damn you library, [...]

I’ve been ill since the weekend and it’s set me thinking that men have an arse backwards approach to illness. At the moment I have what could be called man flu. Obviously I’m convinced that it’s SARS or bubonic plague but in truth I have a cold, I ache a bit and most of all, [...]

Being a time travelling superhero-genius like myself you soon find that your life is full of nemesises or nemesisi or nemeses, whichever is the accurate term (yes I know it’s the third one.) These foul villains constantly obstruct your path and try to ensnare you in their naughty ways. I am unlucky in having two [...]

I’m a compulsive taker of personality tests, I can’t help myself. I like to see what the answers are, if I expect them and what they mean. I don’t know why I do this to myself because I’m invariably worried by their accuracy. I imagine in the same way that some people worry about the [...]