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Category: Home life
Questionnaires
Last month I received a Questionnaire, an NHS GP Survey, through the post. I dislike Questionnaires very, very much and rarely fill them in, but decided to fill in this one. It struck me that it was worded to make it difficult to say, simply, “I am very happy with my GP and have no… Continue reading Questionnaires
Word of the week: Jenga
You know Jenga, the game where you build a tower out of wooden blocks and then try to remove one block at a time until the whole tower collapses. The word means “build” in Swahili, as I learnt last year from this article featuring the inventor Leslie Scott and Alan Hassenfeld from Hasbro. I assumed… Continue reading Word of the week: Jenga
Usually I’m Anthony Trollope, but not this week
In previous pieces I have mentioned Universal Knowledge, with the understanding that there isn’t much of it, and that some people’s idea of what is universally known is very different from other people’s ideas. Porlock, Battleship Potemkin, Cargo Cult: I never assume that these terms are familiar to friends and family. And the same goes… Continue reading Usually I’m Anthony Trollope, but not this week
“Alive or dead?” (a January question)
About five years ago, on a Saturday in January, a friend and her daughter came to lunch. The Weekend Guardian that day had a feature called something like “Those we have lost”, pictures and stories of people who had died in the previous year. Our friend commented on how many of the deaths had passed… Continue reading “Alive or dead?” (a January question)
“I’ve got it on vinyl”
My wife and still have all of our vinyl albums, accumulated in our childhoods in the 1960s and 1970s, and when we were more grown up in the 1980s. There are even a few from the 1990s. Neither of us was a great vinyl collector, and there is some doubling up here and there (multiple… Continue reading “I’ve got it on vinyl”
Clutter, and a consolation
How many clear surfaces do you have? Do they stay clear for long? If the answers to these questions are “Lots” and “Yes” then fair play to you. If you maintain this state of affairs with a house full of children, I congratulate you heartily (but I might need constant photographic evidence to support your… Continue reading Clutter, and a consolation
The Compartments 