I’m going to lay my cards on the table straight out – as well as beginning the gaming metaphors – and confirm that I was a bad loser at board games as a child. And so I stopped. Unattracted as I was, equally, to other people being openly competitive, there wasn’t much reason to start again. …
Category archives: Eco
Milly Molly Mandy strikes back
Honest, it started as a book review, it is in no way intended to comment on any cabinet reshuffle… Spent some pleasant time with G and S over yesterday afternoon/evening and this morning, and discovered that one of the books in S’s recent acquisitions for her girls is Milly Molly Mandy. For the uninitiated, Milly …
Fantasy online dinners
I’ve come to realise that the way to get people’s attention online (or at least on Facebook) is to write about food. Mention your latest eating experience – or even, your anticipation of that – and you get lots of virtual joining in. Is it the dark days of recession affecting us? We know that …
Black gold
Sometimes it seems I’m at my happiest when heading from A to B, with space to think up titles for blog posts, or the like. After much deliberation for this one, I settled on black gold. Would it be a hard-hitting commentary on oil over-dependence? Not really. An oblique Asterix book reference? Closer territory, though …
There’s no such thing as a free…
…Post-it note? But of course there is. A free pen. A free cotton bag. A free jute carbon neutral bag. In fact, a free policy booklet that you hadn’t planned on reading in the first place. Despite Scotland’s happy insistence on state schooling for the majority of its pupils, there’s clearly no such thing as …