Monday morning and I'm back at my desk after a week in the motherland. Damn. Yesterday was evidently my honeymoon period of being back. The weather was lovely in that very British clear blue sky with a crisp cold to the air way, I was pleased to see K, who popped round to see me and, though I missed C, ...

Hello.I wonder what you might think of this; I often ask my girls what's happening in their life. And, I usually say"So, what's going on in K's world?" Or "What's happening in A life?"To me, those specific wordings sound good. I feel as if they give attention to the people concerned and usually generate an interesting (to me) response. Except ...

Yes, a bit of an attention grabbing headline I know. But still, we're here now.I have a question for you; why is it that women, or females as they're often referred to, continually congratulate each other on their beauty and looks (mostly on Facebook admittedly) whereas as us blokes never do?Time after time I see photos of ladies and time ...

Now that I've joined the ranks of infrequent bloggers, those chaps who crop up on your feed every now and again and you ignore anyhow, I struggle for inspiration in things to jot about.It's definitely nothing to do with a lack of things going on in my, or your, world. There's plenty going on all over the show. Only a ...

The Old Boy Cerno sent me a Tweet yesterday, well a message thing on Twitter at least. It linked to the first page of a blog and the page had some words that made me think:"I blog because it’s as old fashioned and romantic as writing letters and using a typewriter and I hope I can chronicle my writing journey ...

When I had the first one done everyone said that I'd have more, that once you've got the bug there's no going back. Oh how correct they were!For the third time I have that feeling of excitement brewing, the one of slight ball itchiness combined with a need for time to hurry up and the feeling that I want to ...

If I start this post with a lament on how it's been a long time since I wrote something, well, it's only going to sound like all my recent ones. So I won't. I'll just say sorry, for life has been busy, in a strange mental yet quiet sort of way.What's going down?Well the girls, A and K that is, ...

There I was, like any good Brit, sitting in my local Indian restaurant quietly waiting for my takeaway. The door opened and in walked what can only be described as, well, a working class salt of the earth type of fellow. The sort of chap who you wouldn't want to meet in a dark, or even a well lit alley. ...

I've been on a recent mission to upgrade my pants collection. And, for the benefit of any Americans, I really mean pants here, like you know, the things that your balls and willy actually are held in by, not trousers. And, for the benefit of Sri Lankans, when I say "trousers" I actually mean " a trouser".Not that long ago ...

Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and her breasts have hit the headlines, as you're possibly aware. Unlike some, I'm not going to use the incident as an excuse to publish some topless pictures of various women. No, I'm not really against "modelling" of that sort, but neither am I an advocate of it.Frankly I just think it's a bit sad ...

I glanced at Groundviews yesterday and saw that some sort of girls' fight has broken out between Sanjana, David Blacker and DD. And, when I say "girls'" fight, I really mean a fight that girls wouldn't actually have.If I've got it right (which is rare) then it's all because Groundviews, in this case the esteemed Mr Hattotuwa, called for the ...

I've been reading lots of short stories.

I first told you about my Dad's cancer here, about fourteen months ago. Well it's been a long old fourteen months, full of drama, pain, happiness and sadness. Not to mention drugs, wheelchairs, chemotherapy and tears.And yesterday we were told by the Doctor that he's in full remission. It feels weird, in a good way. For the first time I ...

So I'm back in the UK after a glorious two weeks in Serendib. Yesterday was a lucky bank holiday Monday. Bank holidays are a bit like Poya Days except they don't happen as often, the weather's always shit and we don't drink as much.I had hoped that the extra day would give me a bit of time to get prepared ...

From the Daily Blah, sometime in the not too distant future.God, that slightly mystical chap with a long beard and sandals, appeared at a press conference today to deny his existence. His told us:"Well things have been a little shaky for the last few hundred years, but it was this Higgs Boson discovery that prompted me to reveal the truth. ...

And by "G" I mean those spots that make me go "Grrrrr".I'd like to ask you. my reader, if the email I'll chuck into this post, after giving you the background, winds you up as much as it does to me. Or am I just being overly pedantic and fussy?I deal with one of those job agencies, the sort that ...

I saw a thing, one of those things that people put up, on Facebook the other day. It said things along the lines of:"I'm from the generation that arrives at your house to pick you up and gets out of my car, walks up the path and rings your doorbell. You're from the generation that arrives, then sits in the ...

Dear Reader,Forgive me, and all. It's been ages. Life has got in the way of writing about life, which is no doubt a touch of irony, and I feel a need to tell you a few things about what's been going down over here in RD land.It's been busy, that's for sure. A (the eldest) hit her eighteenth birthday. She ...

So the new new iPad is now fully up and running and I'm just that little bit more of an Apple whorefan than I was before.Why?Well my iPad was stolen and it cost me quite a lot of money. But, had the same thing happened six months ago, my briefcase would have contained no iPad, just my hard copy of ...

It kind of went like this:Sunday afternoon - Arrive back from Sri Lanka, v knackered, v smelly (with that long distance flight smell that they must spray around the cabin when people are asleep, probably opening people's mouths and bunging a bit in there too).I unpacked, spoke to loved ones and attempted a poo. I failed in the latter task, ...