If a visit to a supermarket is your idea of hell, you might feel some sympathy for me.  I have shopped at my local Tesco six days a week for the last six years. My company pays for lunch for all twenty employees, what a great perk.  It’s me that caters to their every whim, [...]

As I will soon to be out of work, I have been thinking of selling my comic collection, plus a car wheel and assorted clutter on eBay.  I began collecting comics about eight years ago as I liked the artwork being produced.  Some, I imagined, were masterpieces of drawing and inking skills.  I like art, [...]

I don’t know the  percentages, but I would think that the majority of teenage boys’ bedrooms are no-go areas.  I don’t mean everyone in the family, including the cat, are banned from entering the bedroom.  But these bedrooms can only to be entered by wearing regulation NATO chemical spill suits! The bedroom door should give [...]

As I am soon to lose my job along with twenty other colleagues,  it’s a good time to  talk about  office politics.  I could, if I wanted to, mention names and events with impunity and by the time they read this blog I could be in Mexico.  Office politics is now  virtually non existent  at [...]

In  August 2008 I flew with my family to California for our vacation.  The summer in the UK was a washout unless you were a duck, and even they were wearing Aqualungs! One of the first things my  teenage  daughter wanted to do was to visit the Desert Hills Mall, a hour and half drive [...]

Its been a few weeks now since myself and colleagues  were told we were being made redundant.  We are going through several emotional states, common also to loss of a loved one, break up of a loving relationship, etc. The first: DISBELIEF, A denial that it’s really happening, surely it’s a tasteless joke,…nah it’s real, [...]

With my wife’s birthday just 12 hours away I drove into town through snow and ice.  If there is one day in the year you can’t miss is you’re loved one’s birthday.  Christmas and Valentine’s day are possible to forget for a variety of reasons.  You will probably get some hateful stares, some nasty comments, [...]

When redundancies were announced at my company we were offered outplacement.  That’s when a company is bought in to mentor the employees by helping in various ways, with tips on interviewing techniques, writing CV’s etc.  A thick booklet was given out. I don’t think this  100 page master plan for preparing for a new working [...]

For many years I have been cruising along in my life.  I have let events, like being made redundant four times, just happen and for me not learn from it.  I guess I was just praying that my next job would be more secure than the last. One time, when everyone in my department was [...]