Tag Archives: Ramblings

Something about perspective

I suspect the picture attached to this story at the BBC could be the basis of one of those cheesy inspirational posters. Something about the fighyt not always going to the strong, or the slenderest bough holding in times of need.

Slogans

I used to work in a clothing factory. One of the items we made was a child’s t-shirt with a couple of eskimos rubbing their noses together on it. And by that I mean it was a picture of two eskimos, not two actual eskimos stapled to it. And they weren’t rubbing their noses on [...]

A sense of place

Here’s a picture of me next to the world’s biggest mousehole. Man, I crack myself up sometimes.

300ft high and falling

When I was 16 I did a parachute jump. I’ve since grown out of such excitement, preferring to live my life vicariously through the gift of television. But at the time it seemed like a good idea. I did a static line jump, which meant the parachute release was attached to the plane rather than [...]