Oct 23, 2009 0
Let me take you by the hand and lead you — not through the streets of London — but to Loughborough, June 2008.
Seeking to relive their ‘glory days,’ four former Accountancy students go back to the university town in which they so frequently disgraced and embarrassed themselves on many, many nights out. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 21, 2009 0
Hands up who thinks I’ve done any exercise since my last post?
If your hand is in the air you are a) wrong, and b) a bit simple for putting your hand up. Saturday night the missus and I found ourselves in a lovely restaurant overlooking Trevaunance Cove in St Agnes, Cornwall. After a very nice starter — squid and chorizo salad — my main course arrived; moules marinière with a side bowl of chips. There’s a rule (I don’t know if it’s true or not and frankly I don’t care, but it makes sense) that if a mussel hasn’t opened during cooking, you shouldn’t eat it. I found an unopened mussel and lifted it up. I shouldn’t eat that, I thought to myself. It might give me the shits. Hang on, that might help me lose weight… Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 15, 2009 0
Is twenty-eight too early to consign yourself to the scrap-heap?
I once went on a Management Bullshit Course in which the speaker said that as we get older we find it harder to change our personality traits. The point that stuck in my mind was the cut-off point he specified: twenty-eight. Up until the age of twenty-eight, he said, we can still change who we are. We can change those things about ourselves that annoy us. After that, we’re screwed. We’re stuck as we are. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 14, 2009 17
Today I received the news I had been expecting but very much not wanting. The lovely gentleman who drove his motorbike into the side of my car has denied all responsibility for the accident and my insurers informed me that it is very likely I will be deemed to have been wholly at fault.
Not my accident
Now in many ways this is irrelevant. If I were 100% at fault, 50% at fault or a tiny bit at fault, it still goes down as an accident on my record, I kiss goodbye to my no claims bonus and my premium goes up. The point is that I object to being told I’m the only one in the wrong when a motorbike rides between two lanes of moving traffic. Yes, it was careless on my part, but it really fucks me off that motorcyclists gets all high and mighty (“THINK BIKE!” FFS) about road safety, while seemingly being a law unto themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 5, 2009 0
Two weeks ago I had a car accident. Nothing major — not for me, anyway (although maybe the motorcyclist who went tumbling from his bike might disagree) — but it did mean that last week I had to make do without my car while the motorbike-shaped dint in the passenger door was mended. I won’t describe the incident although I’ll let you know who the insurance companies decide was at fault if/when I get my £250 excess back. Read the rest of this entry »
