Articles tagged Personal:
Forty Things That I Loved About the 1980s
- 6 Apr 2018
Margaret Thatcher Labour couldn’t win an election Putting the Unions back in their box Enabling millions of people to buy shares for the first time A-ha & Alphaville Audi Quattros Ejecting the Argentinians...
My Speed Awareness Course Experience
- 2 Apr 2018
This is from September 2009. This morning I attended a two and a half hour long speed awareness course, having been caught doing 37 mph in a 30 limit in Brixton at 3am one morning in early June. I will admit to being slightly sceptical of what it would entail, but I have to...
The Loneliness of a Tunbridge Wells Park Runner
- 24 Feb 2018
I hate running. Absolutely loathe it. Cross country running at school was one of the most hated moments of my week. But running is healthy and at the age of 55 and living a very sendantry lifestyle, I know I need to get fitter. I’m a type 2 diabetic with out of control blood s...
My New Year's Resolutions for 2018
- 31 Dec 2017
I didn’t do any new year’s resolutions last year so I thought I would do so for 2018. I wonder how many I will achieve. To be consistently under 16 stone by the end of the year. I’m 16 1/2 at the moment and have been for some time. To say ‘no’ more often, and not feel ...
I'll Mourn His Victims, But No, I Won't Mourn Martin McGuinness
- 21 Mar 2017
Inam Bashir and John Jeffries. Two names you’ve probably never heard of. I knew their faces but not their names. They worked in a newsagents by South Quay DLR station on the Isle of Dogs. Each morning I’d call in to their little kiosk to buy my morning newspapers on the way t...
So Did I Keep my 2016 New Year's Resolutions?
- 30 Dec 2016
These are the resolutions I made a year ago. Let’s see how many of them I stuck to… Not to buy a new car. ACHIEVED Read more for pleasure, rather than because it’s my job. NOT ACHIEVED Do more TV. NOT ACHIEVED Go abroad more often. NOT ACHIEVED Lose another hal...
So How Do I Answer the Question: "Did You Have a Nice Christmas, Iain?"
- 29 Dec 2016
They say ‘honesty is always the best policy’, but I wonder how honest I will be when I go back to work on Tuesday and a caller says: “Did you have a nice Christmas, Iain?” Do I say, “yes thanks, hope you did too.” Or do I tell the truth and say “No I didn’t. My Dad died and I ...
21 Things I'd Like to Do, But (Almost Certainly) Never Will
- 9 Jul 2016
I have very few regrets in my life. I don’t really believe in ‘what ifs’ or looking back with a degree of wistfulness, but this ‘bucket list’ with a difference gives a clue to what some of my regrets might be, as well as list a few things that were always going to unfulfilled ...
The Ups And Downs of Life
- 29 May 2016
In December last year I wrote about the Greatest Experiences of My Life, which you can read HERE. It was a rather nice article to write. Anyway, life is all about ups and downs, so I thought it only right to write about things that haven’t been so great in my life. I suspect ...
My 10 Resolutions for 2016
- 1 Jan 2016
Not to buy a new car. Read more for pleasure, rather than because it’s my job. Do more TV. Go abroad more often. Lose another half a stone in weight. Ditch ‘I Want it That Way’ as my Karaoke song and find another one. Start writing a new book… and think of somet...