the Boy on Top of the World

Its summer, the sun is shining, the kids are finishing off a happy year at school, I am employed (albeit on contract) and my wife {...}

I, and my family of course, are very fond of our toast, and therefore jam. Breakfast, pudding after tea, snacks any time of the day, {...}

For a few months I have been doing a contract for a reputable firm in the media space. A bit old, a bit stade, and {...}

In short, I didn’t get the job. I received lots of lovely feedback that it had been very close, that I’d come across strongly, was {...}

So, number one son just finished his end of year exams. He is quite put out that his latin exam was below par. Not a {...}

Our garden is a bit of a birds paradise. We have owls, swallows, woodpeckers (two different species), pigeons, doves, blackbirds, crows, a cock pheasant who {...}

So, over the past six months I’ve interviewed for a number of jobs. Previously in my life, pretty well any job I interviewed for, I {...}

So, a couple weeks ago I had some visitors from Canada. The son of a close old friend and two of his mate. All 19, {...}

LL and I have had a rather sad and bizarre argument. This is the result of us both having unintentional time off work (read, being {...}

It is one of the horrors of my life that I inevitably seem to get jobs in central London. I keep trying to do otherwise, {...}