As I write this, Team GB has just won a bronze medal in the noble sport of dressage. I don’t know much about dressage, it looks like dancing horses and doesn’t really seem like a sport, but, as has been the case for most Olympic games during my lifetime and certainly since, like many of…
Tag: TV
A Haiku About The Importance Of Sport In My Life
I like watching sport I find it more compelling Than breaking a sweat
May The Thirty-First Be With You: Impossible To See The Future Is
And so we arrive at day 31 of May 2020, which means that my month long homage to Star Wars can finally end. Which is something of a relief because, aside from vaguely thinking it might be quite funny to extrapolate the flimsy premise that the 4th of May is ‘Star Wars Day’ into the…
May The Thirtieth Be With You: The Mandalorian
‘The Mandalorian’ arrived late to the UK, given that Disney Plus didn’t launch here until March, having been available elsewhere as early as November. However, the hype arrived a long time before that and, consequently, this show had a lot to live up to by the time I got around to watching it. Probably more…
James Complains About January
I’m writing this in what can only be described as a foul mood. Christmas now seems but a distant memory and, although I’m sure I enjoyed it at the time, the net result of the recent festive period is that I’m now poor and fat. The return to the daily grind has left me so…
We Have No Time To Sit And Stare
As of tomorrow morning the Christmas holidays are officially over. In fact the tree and decorations are coming down today. I know that Twelfth Night is not for another few days so it might be a bit premature for me to be halting the festivities but frankly it is time. It is time because Mrs…
I Think The Sofa’s Eaten It
Although the week has taken its toll I have chilled beer and snacks in a bowl It is time to unwind But I can’t seem to find The television remote control
James Complains About Paw Patrol
I’m rarely up early on a Saturday morning. It is usually the day I allow myself a few extra hours in bed after the ravages of the working week. But with yesterday being Good Friday and consequently a bank holiday, I found myself well-rested this morning and thus I was up with the lark. Actually…
Screen Time
Brightest beacon of Purest procrastination I watch to avoid
Baking Bad
As I’ve stated previously, I enjoy a coffee on my way into to work of a morning. I’ve also shared the fact that I enjoy breakfast. Sometimes I combine these two pleasures and purchase both at the same outlet. I’m quite astute like that. One of these outlets has a proprietor who reminds me quite…
James Proclaims! 