PS the subliminally placed word in my picture is intentional.

On Thursday morning I received a message with a photo of a whole lot of garbage that had been dumped on the front door of

I have officially decided that expanding polyurethane “Filla Foam” is the stickiest and fastest-setting substance known to humankind.   Memo to self: getting the cleaning rags,

Early this particularly cold morning in bed, I was testing out the Biblical wisdom that “Two are better than one, …if two lie down together,

This off the Wonderopolis website: “Siesta means “midday rest.” It comes from the Latin phrase hora sexto, which means “the sixth hour” or approximately noon. 

…1999 to be exact. I had no idea how much back-breaking labor this would involve, but I soon found out. The three pictures tell a

…it suddenly dawned on me that the lights were back on and before I could stop myself I was belting out Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.  Boy,

Spell it like you say it… wonderful! It reminded me of when we needed to get cornices for finishing off our ceiling and our supplier

Since rollerblading regularly again, I need to replace the wheels every six months, so I’m always on the lookout for second-hand pairs.  Consequently, on our

That’s what you call détente.  Henry Kissinger would be proud. In my 28th February post I shared how my bath-time fun was threatened by my

With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein…”these are a few of my least fav’rite things”

…darn, I liked that shirt.

Firstly, Cedric is not my rubber duck.  I mean seriously, what fully-grown adult names their rubber duck.  Cedric is my plastic frog who is under

Pat Benetar is one of my favourite female Rockers and this song has taken on a special significance for me over the decades.  When I

I try to exclude Coke and other soft drinks from my diet because, besides being addictive by cynical design, they are only a few levels

So much of this world’s culture revolves around the desperate need to be happy, leading to the manic drive to edit the footage of our

…but when all the painting’s done, and all’s been said and done, any dang fool can see I found me a good one (Prov 18:22).(…and

A “few” tattoos and some stylish beard work…do I feel wooed by the mid-life-crisis-siren? Nah… Tattoos sound like too much pain and money.  Besides, I

…but then I hit myself in the face a few times with G Kittel’s “Theological Dictionary of the New Testament” (volume IV), and it helped

Yesterday I finally got round to having my second Covid jab.  It was as fast and efficient as a McDonalds drive through. When I got

THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL BALD CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT In a previous post I waxed pitiful about tooth loss, but it led to zero financial

…I can’t put my finger on it but I felt awkward and uncomfortable as I walked home.

I came across an article in BBC Science Focus (August 2021) establishing a link between missing teeth and loss of intelligence (“Some researchers have suggested

I was putting up some roof sheeting when I discovered this delightfully tenacious little plant. As the song goes, “we’ve paved paradise and put up

A few weeks ago, a gold crown on my molar fell out; “this is not good”, I thought.  The next day the remaining part of

Don’t be fooled.  I’m no more a genuine art-man than I am a genuine plant-man.  You can put lipstick on a pig but that doesn’t

She had lots of books and plants to move (the close-dropping apple sometimes falls between two trees). On the 18th of August I posted that

Now i’m waiting for the illuminati to locate me through the microchip; but I’m ready for them.  I stocked up on a 6-month supply of

I can’t help admiring the average cat’s strong sense of self-entitlement.  Those who struggle excessively with self-effacement watch and take notes.

A few weeks ago I had to remove two old rusted garage door springs and mechanisms.  My wife definitely said, “Be careful, those things are

Several factors conspired to cause my miraculous conversion from floral cynic to fan.  Besides reminding myself of the divorce-destroying adage that has served our marriage

The other day I came in soaked and cold off my bike, to pour the water out of my boots and jump into a hot

…any excuse will do to keep my wife amused and distracted from the fact that I’m several weeks behind on some of the tasks I

This is a plant at my office ; it’s pretty much dead.  I tried to revive it with water, singing, cooing, and recitations of William

Four days ago a horrendous amount of water started to seep mysteriously from the base of our kitchen and bathroom walls.  Between deciding whether or

Nothing says “go away” quite so well as an undersized bench and an oversized scowl.  My wife is still coaching me on not barking when

Obviously, the reason she is so far ahead of me in the photo is not because I couldn’t have kept up if I wanted to. 

…and then a childhood memory came flooding back, revealing the source of this disquietude.

You may be wondering what I’m doing with a sledge hammer at work.  You’ve obviously never worked in education.  Besides, doesn’t everyone have a box

Yesterday, on Christmas Eve, I spent the morning making a wooden Christmas tree (…yes I know you can buy them in the shops).  It made

I played drums quietly to Dave Brubeck in the dark, in my shed (Joe Morello, you beauty you!) and then the juice in my laptop