The phone call came late in the evening. I usually leave calls after eight at night. The phone played that stupid noise I had assigned the ring tone. Who the hell is this bloody phone bloody scam? I thought I’ll just turn the bloody thing off. I can’t find the phone, must be under my side table. I twisted to … Continue reading →
Through my life my close friend and ally in the sometimes serious and sometimes mischief passage of our joint existence has featured in a number of incidents that somehow become known as the Gazza Curse, I will leave the reader to determine whether this is one of them. Anyway, its Gazzas story so I will let him tell it in his own words. – The Chinwagger.
Continue reading →My son and I own a small flooring store, part of a bigger franchising network. He runs the store and I get to do all the jobs that are not selling flooring. There appear to be a lot of these jobs. Including removing the waste, disposing of equipment and fixing broken things, this tale is about fixing broken things. We … Continue reading →
Remember the days you had a pad and pencil and you just wrote and took it everywhere with you. Not so easy with the variety of devices we have at our disposal these days. I was looking for a way to work with Scrivener across platforms; I have a Windows desktop as a primary device, a Windows laptop so I can sit in the garden and write, and when I am just out and about I carry with me an android phone. Well, I hear you say, just buy Apple, and I say no hope of that ever happening, they are weird..
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