love me?
Reading Time: 4 minutes We meet in the old familiar bar. This in a sense is weird, I’ve not seen this girl for 2 years, until out of the blue I decided to phone her when I came home for my annual post Christmas visit. And now she is …
...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Writing
Gathering together posts about my written work, whether academic work, lyrics, or just plain ranting.
Targeting groups – Antisocial Behaviour and Higher Education Students
Reading Time: 17 minutes I have been digging through some old files and folder while sorting out moving house, and have realise I have never got round to posting some of the academic work I completed, some of which I am pleased with and even enjoy re-reading. I hope …
The New Normal
Reading Time: 2 minutes This Buzzword is becoming apparent for how things have changed. What we can and cannot do (which seems to change each day). It’s hard to think creatively at times. There’s things we need to be grateful for all around though. Making Pizza. A strage randon …
Feast of Fools
Reading Time: 2 minutes Laughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going …
Hometown (The Soil That Grew Me)
Reading Time: 2 minutes For 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of …
Shooting Strangers
Reading Time: 8 minutes …photographing a stranger can constitute harassment. In general, harassment requires repetition. There are some cases where it may not – for example if I were to I sneak up behind someone at ground level to capture an ‘upskirt’ this could clearly and rightly be defined as sexual harassment. But the defining factor here is that the person concerned would have an expectation that, although they are in public, the public do not have a reasonable right to take picture of their gusset…
The Demise of Jessops
Reading Time: 3 minutes …when I paid, the spotty adolescent fool working there tried making conversation about prime lenses, getting it all wrong and thus showing his ignorance, and then aggressively tried to sell me extended cover based on incorrect ‘knowledge’ he had about my current insurance policy. Which of course now may have been useless anyway.
So what this collapse basically means for me is I have lost (most likely) the protection of the Sale of Goods Act over my purchase…
What an Absolute Fucking Debacle
Reading Time: 6 minutes Yes, you heard, A fucking debacle. I’ve been ummng-and-ahhing whether to write anything about this nonsense for some days now, but I need to vent on this and, hell, no-one ever really reads my wafflings so I will do it here and hope when fame …