The City Sleeps Alone Tonight

Is it just me or has it genuinely become more difficult to meet people? I’m figuring that it always has been difficult to meet people, I mean in prehistoric times it must have been absolute hell for several reasons, namely that there were about fifteen people on the planet and the chances of bumping into [...]

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Amazing what you can attract just by doing nothing

As I was dragged out of the library by my Danish, fellow philosphy student I was accosted by the head of Advice and Guidance who wanted to talk to me about something, I thought it would be something editorial about the latest column I submitted to the student newsletter but nothing could be further from [...]

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We don’t choose who we are. But what are we other than the sum of our choices

Life does not seem to be a case of moving forward on some sort of linear, predestined line, it seems to be more of a meandering aimless search for something to do in between being born and inevitably dying. At least it does when you have no idea what you should be doing with your [...]

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Categorisation, our favourite pastime

I’ve spent a couple of days doing my usual complete reappraisal of myself, I’ve been on a bit of a high of late and somewhere up in the clouds where logic and reason fell short of reaching me. Not that I’ve had a great deal of Logic and Reason thrown at me by other people, [...]

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Every Postmans dream

Actually there are a few, one being of course the attractive yet inexplicably lonely housewife, another being the aggressive dog and the extremely big lump of lead piping that just happens to be at hand (I am of course joking, violence against animals is not something I condone) and the other being the  £300,000 in [...]

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The ideals of the National Strike

Yesterday the CWU voted in favour of strike action with a 77% majority, this will begin a series of walkout actions unless managemet remove the strings attached to the current paydeal, as opposed to press coverage the Union are not looking for a 27% pay rise but an inflation (4.8%) or above deal without massive [...]

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Back in Business

I’ve had quite the wrangle over what exactly happened to my blog two weeks ago, to be honest I’m still not entirely sure though it seems I may be able to retrieve all the previous posts and archive them here on this wordpress blog. Its been a while and I’ve had quite the holiday, I’ve [...]

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Alternative careers

With the postal strike looking increasingly likely I have begun to wonder what I will do during the industrial action, I’ve compared my options. 1. Man the picket lines wearing my post office uniform and a beret and calling for the death of Thatcher, have plenty of pictures taken of me so that in college [...]

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Of Carly and having no willpower whatsoever

Last night I sat in the V.I.P lounge with Carly doing her customary dance and whilst letting the intoxication of a beautiful girl who is doing her best to tease you knowing full well what she is doing to you, I managed to reflect briefly on how interesting the whole business is. You see I’ll [...]

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Busy weekend

My apologies for not forewarning I have only recently returned from my trip to the Lake District, which turned out to be quite good, I’m sorry I can’t be more specific at the present moment however I have to tend to my cats and probably sleep a great deal. Over the weekend I’ve done such [...]

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