Tag Archives: humour

New year, old thingummyjigs.

Posted on 11th January 2026 by admin

Do you remember this? You don’t need much of a memory, in fact you can scroll down and read all about it.  This is a photograph of 13 cardboard toilet roll middles shoved into one cardboard toilet roll middle, prior … Continue reading →

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Bottoming out.

Posted on 3rd January 2026 by admin

No, nothing to do with Brazilian butt lifts at all.  Nothing to do with the very nice looney TV show Bottom.  Nothing to do with addicts finally scraping the barrel bottom and waking up.  Nothing to do with getting into … Continue reading →

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Hot Stuff.

Posted on 31st December 2025 by admin

The last 49 years, on Christmas afternoon, I have been absent from the lounge, where the S&H and latterly, just the OH, occasionally both plus the DIL and the grandchildren were to be found, playing with the toys I had … Continue reading →

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The last place (part 2, the second bit, B)

Posted on 27th July 2025 by admin

Me and Cleopatra, just like that.  Me and Mark Anthony, even closer. The other way of finding things you have lost, for the creatives among us, is to spend sixteen years (seventeen in September)  writing a blog.  As you do.  … Continue reading →

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The electrical life 4

Posted on 5th June 2025 by admin

Last night, on my way to bed I thoughtfully pushed my socked foot gently under the side of the washing machine, for the joy that retrieving it dry would afford. You know, don’t you? Wet toes. I subsequently slid a … Continue reading →

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The electrical life 3.

Posted on 4th June 2025 by admin

If you are new here, welcome!  If you are as fiercely bright as most of the miniaturists  who pause here you may have noticed the number 3 in the title, for this is the 3rd description of my attempt to … Continue reading →

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The electrical life part 2.

Posted on 3rd June 2025 by admin

The date for the arrival of the Washing Machine version of the Star Ship Enterprise was a surprise which would be vouchsafed unto me in a telephone call.  I spent time stressing that I have a landline, which means that … Continue reading →

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Always present…

Posted on 9th May 2025 by admin

When you look out of your bedroom window, what do you hope to see?  The garden, maybe a bird or two and some grass?  Instead, a couple of days ago this is what I saw what do you think these … Continue reading →

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Upsykle.

Posted on 21st April 2025 by admin

Welcome to the first edition of Upsykle online magazine, which might become a podcast if I can get my mobile out of the back of the sofa. Upsykle your sofa. And straight into our first article about what to do … Continue reading →

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A notis of sumthing to bye.

Posted on 22nd February 2025 by admin

Wele for sayle. Noe carefool owners atte alle naught to fyve balls of flakks in a cuple of daies. Lowwe mayntayn ens.  Itte will juste gowe rownd and rownd and rownd, spinning.  Itte is a spiining wele.  Itte sayves werk.  … Continue reading →

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