Alter ego

I’ve not ventured into Second Life – first life quite occupying, thanks.  But there are still some attractions to having an alter ego, maybe particularly online, but perhaps a few variations in the everyday too. Before this all starts sounding too ‘multiple personality’, we all do it – because we all fit into each others’ lives …

Board games for grownups

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.  …

Travel in the real world

About time I put another post out there, keen to extol blogging as I am yet not doing much of it just now… Blame spring cleaning, early summer cleaning, oh there’s another cold snap, cleaning and general furniture shifting.  But, for a change, blame holiday…where we deliberately kept off-line. Actually, this gets easier if you …

Sensible mid-life crisis

Maybe it’s another birthday.  Or maybe it’s just Facebook.  Here are all the ways to try out new cars, pose, acquire a car that suggests there’s a crisis of some kind, or just enjoy beating other people… It probably doesn’t sound terribly healthy.  But the Facebook option – aka Petrolhead – does mean that you …