Some readers of this blog will know that I don’t really do shopping. Well, high street shopping I mean. I hate the same blandness that 95% of the stores here in the UK represent these days. I despise the way that the big chains and the corporates assume that we’re a bunch of brainless, zombified […]
Gym Bobbins
Over the years I’ve been a member of your UK swanky city-centre female-0nly places; your corporate-shop ‘love your boss – love your gym!’ deals. And plenty of East Mancunian Spit n’ Sawdust in-betweeners. So I think that I do know my moolah’s worth – and that I’m good at judging the overall social-aggregate, when it […]
Don’t Be A Bird Brain
Followers will know that I like to blog about all kinds of stuff, but that I can become the gobbiest when it comes to the issue of ‘outsiders’. Yes, I get all crabby about those who are on the fringes of society (because of lack of income or birth right or connections) but I also […]
Pushing Her Nibs
Why? Why would anyone in the world NOT want to put pen to paper? To reach out, to inform, to entertain or to explain themselves via the written word? I had never understood those who didn’t like to write. Until I bred a family of aliens. (Although they think that it is I, who happens […]
Barclays! Nowt Wrong With a Bit of Chest-Staring!
I was a bit gutted to see that in their latest LifeSkills advert, Barclays have opted for the old ‘C’mon kids! If you can’t make effective eye contact – you’ll be on the job scrap heap forever!’ approach. I would have hoped that Barclays – given their oodles of dosh – could have thought a […]
Scotland, Dragons and Don’t Be a Div…
Families divided over whether Scottish question will be resolved by a YES or a NO vote! Even in England! Even in our Yorkshire and Lancashire neck of the woods! A region of prolific debate and considered discourse … (especially when we start talking about whether you call a certain breaded product a ‘bap’, a ‘teacake’ […]
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