Prior to and post yesterday evening’s rugby league match between Leeds Rhinos and Hull FC, I had the opportunity to collect on the grounds periphery with a team of volunteers for a cancer support charity. The spectacle was televised and in front of over 13,000 fans……. Incidentally, that’s the rugby that was live on TV, not video…
Tag: technology
Pomme Musique Memories
Pomme Musique joue For The Benefit of Mr Kite Floats towards shell-like on digital sound not stiff breeze Mr Kite’s journey no longer analogue, though original defined Clarity multiplied from quartet’s original; though only diamond polish Mr Kite has benefitted in resonation, pleasure though correlative. La Marseillaise intro to agony aunt proffering Well meaning…
Pen On Pen
In the thirty years I worked in IT I engaged with some very erudite individuals. People who’s technical wherewithal was/is so vast, if they chose to journal their information technology knowledge they could probably fill a large white swan. I’d like to clarify at this point I’ve never worked with, or indeed met, anyone whose ever written on a swan of any…
Pings Ain’t What They Used To Be
The sharp sound of a pinging bell – In Frank Capra’s classic 1946 feel good movie It’s A Wonderful Life, children were indoctrinated that the peal signified an angel had earned its wings. In that particular narrative the lucky recipient of a promotion was an oft overlooked old guy called Clarence, simple of mind but kind of spirit. As a kid growing…
A Race Against Time
As I commence this tome, I’m slouched on a dining table chair, attempting to muster up the enthusiasm for a rare journey into the domain of multi-tasking. This infrequent venture necessary to allow me to conclude my blog in parallel with securing gig tickets online. Like most guys, the capacity to only successfully manage one task at a time appears to be indelibly marked within…
The One With Thingy In
Like many households these days, interactive TV has an ever growing usage in the Strachan home. This relatively new concept is our latter day court jester, available to entertain our brood at a whim. Be it catching up on a current drama, listening to a wealth of good music or binge watching a favourite boxset, it’s our ‘go to’ televisual choice…
A Diminishing Window Of Opportunity
An early morning intervention of my nimbostratus nemesis scuppered todays plans of applying preservative to chez Strachan’s garden fencing. The wooden target area rendered untreatable by the thick charcoal cloud’s unwelcome precipitation. Even though I applied wood stain to the majority of my fence panels last year, this task remained a necessity as areas remain untreated due to being covered by deciduous…
The Consummate Cockney Salesman
Yesterday afternoon I met up for a beer with an old workmate I hadn’t seen for around three years. On rendezvousing in a pub at Leeds train station, it was immediately clear he’d lost none of his thirst in those intervening 36 months, not to mention his lugs still gave him the appearance of the FA Cup trophy. A south…
Looking at the Stars
Comfort buying; the last bastion of the person unfulfilled by the costless gifts given to us by nature, art, a humanitarian act and the wisdom of an erudite mind. A route taken, although not recommended by Sat Nav, that draws in the misguided with false expectations of lasting existential contentment. Comfort buying; the misplaced…