How’s your reading? A silly question perhaps, given that you’re reading this. Therefore, I presume your reading is fine or at least, good enough to read my stuff. By reading, what I mean is, how is your reading out loud? Because it turns out that mine is not great. It might even be hopeless and…
That feeling when you’ve lost your complete set of keys! The shear frustration. Not to mention the dread and the creeping paranoia because our keys are access all areas and obviously, they aren’t just mislaid – someone has them. And not someone like you and I. You know, decent and honest types. No, some miscreant…
Fame is something associated with the Holland’s. I had a brush with it. My eldest son has completely embraced it and with the advent of social media and the new qualifications and criteria for modern-day ‘celebrity’, it could be argued that other members of the Holland household are basking in some limelight too. One of…
Time used to be precious – but not right now, with many of us now having an abundance of spare time. During lockdown – each day is a challenge to get through, before at last, evening arrives and which too many of us seem to be spending with Joe Exotic and which will do nothing…
During courtroom dramas, we are familiar with expert witnesses. People who are called to give their expert opinion, most usually on something medical or technical. I know a chap who makes his living as an expert witness on road collisions. I can’t imagine a court case where I would be called for my opinion. Indeed,…
Many things are emerging from this virus and the new ‘normal’ – including a newly found appreciation of schools and the bizarre reality that some parents choose to home school. Who would do such a thing? Presumably they like to argue? Because during this lockdown, so unhelpfully coinciding with nice weather, good luck expecting a…
Who knew that the trip to the supermarket would ever become a thing. ‘Okay everyone, you stay here. I’m going out. Good luck dad. The hunter/gatherer in us all is rekindled, albeit more gatherer than hunter these days. But nonetheless, intrepid people venturing out – some without masks – to get provisions for their family…
During an unproductive trip to a supermarket this morning and chatting with a young person who recognised me, I told her that ‘these are unprecedented times.’ She dwelled on my words and looked concerned as she stared at me and then asked whether I had ever experienced anything like this before? Er… My turn to…
What use is a blog if I can’t share with my readers things that I think they will enjoy. Because our time is finite, how much of it do we waste watching and reading things that are unworthy of our precious time? And especially so with films or movies. I have a theory that to…
As I write, an eventful week in Dubai comes to a close with one final gig this evening. I say eventful but for all the wrong reasons.
Uneventful might be a better description given that our events in Abu Dhabi were cancelled as the world goes in to Corona shut down and an odd atmosphere descends on us all. As though we are all protagonists in an Armageddon movie with countries closed, flights suspended and normality suspended. So we hunker down, hope and keep an eye on what
