Scared

Google Sheets and Google Docs are so useful and so embedded in my daily work that it’d be hard to imagine the pain if I weren’t able to use them one day, suddenly and without warning. But that’s exactly what happened to someone I know and their...

Back & Forth

Occasionally I’ll read a tip (always more comfortable for me to say out loud than ‘life hack’) that reckons it’ll give me back ten hours a week or similar. One that springs to mind sells the idea that flitting backwards and forwards between...

Moving Too Fast

I’ve only gone and done it. I’ve cut the chord. In other words, I’ve told Sky we’re leaving them and have gone for Freeview and Netflix instead. No point paying nearly sixty quid a month for rubbish telly we don’t watch. On their letters...

Playing With Knives

Internet education is, admittedly, a wide-ranging subject. But I can see benefits for teenagers of all abilities and backgrounds, and with all sorts of talents, understanding how to use the internet’s abundance of opportunities to help build themselves a life...

Inbetweener

Let’s say you have a teenage son or daughter. Let’s say that teenager is old enough to get a job and that it might be a good idea that he or she starts to earn some money. Let’s say there’s a bit of ‘resistance’ to the idea....

Crash and Burn

Who’s running the show? Politically, as a nation, we’re in limbo. Theresa May’s Brexit strategy plan omniclusterfuckshambles has well and truly crashed and burned. Our political situation is related to this blog because this blog is related to:...