Category Archives: Steve

… of a new SI unit for the safe distance between Street Preachers

Coleraine, my home town, is not a big place. It may have pretensions of bring bigger particularly since Lisburn was made a “city”. Oh, that smarted in the plush red velvet lined town council parlour as resentment  of just being … Continue reading

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…of tales heard when dandering, vampires, silver swords and Bram Stoker

Come on in and tale the weight off your feet, there is beer in the fridge and the nights are pulling in rightly and it will soon be the time for tales to fill the long dark nights of winter. … Continue reading

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… of incondiserate parking and a novel way to deal with it.

I have been remiss in my blogging of late but I would venture my gentle readers (all 2 of them) would not be interested in the finer points of SAML token construction and the digital signing of XML documents with … Continue reading

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Of the perils of “Bog-Snorkelling Ear”, GPs, Teasmaids and shouting

Righty Ho! A bit of a blog is required, cue up Metallica, brew some extra strong coffee and off we go …. Sunday week ago the bauld Vitor Pereira and I entered and took part in the Norn Iron Bog-Snorkelling … Continue reading

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Of farting and classification thereof

Recently my medical advisor suggested a new pill that will make me a healthier chap full of vim and vigour. Sadly the vim and vigour has been accompanied with an increase in the volume of gas that I seem to … Continue reading

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of consternation, frustration and being rude to cold callers without saying “fuck”

I have got tired of telling PPI callers to “███ off” and to be frank I am using way way way to much black duct tape when I speak on the phone and it is expesive putting it over ███ … Continue reading

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A moment of illumination and other thoughts not apt for a Thursday

Thursday’s or “not-quite-friday” is probably not the day to sit at the keyboard thinking thoughts and wondering but never the less here I am … This post has come about mainly due to a conversation I had on facebook the … Continue reading

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I succeed in ranting about having nothing to rant about.

Gentle reader I am when all said and done adapting well to my chronologically triggered role as “grumpy old git (culshie division – first grade)” and it has come to my attention that since the start of 2014 I have … Continue reading

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Steve’s Christmas Message for 2013

It is nearly time for bed and after this brief unconscious hiatus I will awake to the dawn of one of the “special” days. Sitting as it does deep in the heart of winter it is a day (for us … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log or at least a small twig

**** Captain’s Log ***** Star Date: -309011.87966133945 Location: The Planet “Mud” or “Muck” or possibly “Earth” the universal translator is not fluent in the local patois of “Culshie” so it was impossible to say exactly what this place is called … Continue reading

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