Author Archives: daddyp

LISTS

Everyone needs lists …….. otherwise listlessness sets in ……. obviously.

The Top 100.net is all about lists. I’ve put various lists over there: this has been great fun – the people involved have just the right amount of dementedness and are excellent at telling me how to do ‘stuff’ when I got confused. There are serious [...]

HIGH COO

I am blown off course
But an ill wind it was not
The food down South is bloody fantastic, so quite frankly, I think I’ll hang around here for a few more weeks.

[a few weeks ago]

[a couple of days ago]
This young chap arrived about 6 weeks ago looking rather dishevelled, wet, cold and hungry. He looks fine [...]

SALLE D’ATTENTE

We all know that a lot of life is spent waiting. I had a little Google to see what other people had said …..
I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.  – Steven Wright
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared [...]

THE SECRET OF A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE

I’m often asked how Lo, she is a terrible Goddess and I have survived for well over 45 years as a couple. I usually manage a shrug. As the TG was in a benign mood yesterday I asked her what she thought.
“It’s simple – you have to learn to enjoy being irritated.” (Interesting. You actually [...]

OH LOOK – IT’S FRIDAY

Tiggz popped over for lunch the other day and came up with an idea for a cartoon.
What was reeeeally funny was that 2 of the greatest brains on the planet …… and mine …… took about 3 hours to refine it ……. oh well. (What were reeeelly funny were the ones we came up with [...]

THE LEAPFROG OF LIFE

There are times, and at different ages,
When children go through all those stages
Of  sounding like they’re your begetters,
Trying to be the ones who fetter.
When they’re young it’s accidental
Treating you as though you’re mental
But when they hit their middle age
They often don the role of ‘sage’
Which I always find quite funny
When I recall the noses [runny]
All [...]

CRISIS NARROWLY AVERTED AT CLIFF TOP RESIDENCE LAST THURSDAY

Chapter 2
“Have you seen my glasses?” I asked the still humming TG. (Not a word of a lie, Avid Reader. LO,TG Ed)
“No – perhaps they fell off when you were cutting the hedge?” she graciously replied.
I started retracing my footsteps and my step’s steps. I looked on the ground. I looked on the hedge. I [...]

CRISIS NARROWLY AVERTED AT CLIFF TOP RESIDENCE LAST THURSDAY

Chapter 1
“I’m going to cut the hedges!” I announced as I leapt out of bed.
Lo, she is a terrible Goddess feigned indifference and continued dusting her photograph of David Essex.
I showered immediately with only a twinge of regret that I’d forgotten to take off my pyjamas – they needed washing anyway. I dressed and then [...]

TMI

Technogran came closest to my original caption [which was “Any distinguishing features?] to the LMAO cartoon competition I posted just over a week ago. Luckily I used the word ‘exact’ in the conditions of entry  so nobody wins a t-shirt!  …….. *phew – puts wallet back under the floor boards*
Anyhoo, as I’m feeling very generous [...]

LIFE AT THE TOP

There are many advantages to living on a cliff top in an area of outstanding natural beauty and scientific interest. There’s all the wildlife running around, and being able to watch the private aeroplanes and helicopters that fly along using the coast as a navigation aid: always fascinating trying to work out who [...]