Dishwashing Olympics
It took me a while to realise they were watching. I thought it was the radio until I noticed that the radio wasn’t turned on. But the voices were there, comment...
Tag: sport
Little things that make a big difference
It is the fleeting moments, the seemingly unimportant ones that send a positive ripple through other people’s lives.
Old age and the sunset
“Think more of the joy and not the sorrow. And don’t take offence. All I can wish for is to get well or die. And I don’t mind which. I’m over the hump. I’m used...
Soccer versus football and how to fall over properly in the World Cup
... There’s apparently quite an art to falling over in football. You need to make it appear that the most egregious crime in the history of gentlemanly sport ha...
Google Glass in your face
... In the distant future our fingers and thumbs will either be splayed out from all that swiping and zooming, or else we will have graduated to Google Glass an...
Stress and losing the America’s Cup
... The other day I beat up a chair. I was in a foul mood and things weren’t going my way so I threw the chair onto the ground and I kicked it and I stomped on ...