One of our more luxurious weekly chores is traversing our local supermarket for food and household items. A somewhat shy shopper at the best of occasions, my time is generally spent in transportation and redistribution of said groceries(I push and unload the trolley). Depending on my mood I usually try and make a game of […]
Tomorrow I have to complete a medical examination before I start my super yacht course in March. Now whilst I am not overly concerned with the medical exam, reading the medical form certainly made me pause and think. Let me share some of the more pertinent sentences. Experience transitions from hot to cold and humid […]
Do you remember that project I have been working on? Well it is launch week so I can finally let the cat out of the box…. Here is a blurb I wrote about Mischief Boxes. When is a box not a box? When it is a Mischief Box! Mischief Boxes are made for action. You […]
Despite print media being a dieing medium, a healthy confusion and profusion of magazines sprout up at my work every week. They lie directly beside the fridge so on my visits to it I am confronted with startling headlines at regular intervals. Unfortunately the *content* is largely gossip, scaremongering and lewd photographs. What is even […]
Having interviewed a few people over the years for different things it was nice to be asked to do an interview late on Sunday night. I have been a member of a blogging community called bloggerunited for about six months now and have watched it grow into a very healthy and active community. Recognition is […]
With the second month of the year starting in record time I thought it would be a good time to write down some personal goals for the year. I am not really a fan of resolutions, resolutions are for smokers and the overweight. Firstly a tale of poor maths and accounting. I have had a […]
During the Olympics I and the rest of the world got particularly enamoured with Michael Phelps and in particular butterfly. Butterfly is a particularly hard swimming stroke to master. It shares nothing in common with other strokes. I have never been particularly good at it but this did not stop me from commandeering all manner […]
Recruiting people to read my blog is always fun. I wouldn’t call myself a consummate salesman but I do have a pitch of sorts. When were in Asia my number one fan was very good at talking me up in between bottles of beer Lao. I always had my business cards handy. In fact if […]
Not content with day dreaming about the Mediterranean I have started pondering circumnavigating the Caribbean. I spent an awful amount of my childhood playing a game called Pirates. Solidly based on the golden age of piracy Pirates is a fantastic game which includes dancing, sword fighting, ship battles and siege mini games. Opportunities for fencing […]