by fwordsblog | Jun 6, 2011 | Humour
My head gasket blew last week. Had it not been for well-deserved trepidation about the likely cost of this incident I would have laughed, for I’d always thought head gaskets blowing were the stuff of sit-coms – a made-up ailment, like sprockets and overhead camshafts,...
by fwordsblog | Jun 6, 2011 | Humour
Hadn’t been up the health club for a while, what with the fabulous gardening weather and the car packing up, so it was refreshing to find today that the standard of steam room conversation was as diverse and intellectual as ever. The debate segued seamlessly from...
by fwordsblog | Feb 27, 2011 | Words & communication
I’ve been inactive on the blogging front for a fair while because I’ve been working full-time for a publishing company, writing a daily business news bulletin. Somehow the complexity of business news and the pressures of daily deadlines don’t lend themselves to...
by fwordsblog | Feb 14, 2011 | Humour
There’s not much of an intellectual or cultural ‘scene’ in the town I live in. Indeed, some might argue that ‘culture’ and ‘Redhill’ were a contradiction in terms. But a lively debate on the issues of the day can often be found in the steam room at my health club,...
by fwordsblog | Sep 10, 2010 | Humour
Breakfast, the adage goes, is the most important meal of the day. How I agree. Lunch, I can take or leave – I shovel some home-made soup or last night’s leftovers down and carry on working without really noticing what I’m eating. But if I don’t get a proper...
