People search for the darndest things

So, this is an entirely pointless post, and is basically just a method of time-filling for me, and space-filling for the blog.  Anyway, what I’m going to do is look at a few of the search terms people have used to find my blog over the past week, and write about them.  Yes it’s that [...]

You can tell a lot about people

…from what they throw out.

Previously unpublished Sherlock Holmes story

The Curious Case of the Repeatedly Blocked Basin

You know,

…there are times when I think I possibly am a slightly odd person.
I was reading this cartoon site, based on the recommendation of cellar-door.  It’s very funny, and you should definitely read it.  While I was flicking through it, I came across this cartoon:

I’m conducting an experiment

Introduction
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the responses of local Mental Health services under certain controlled circumstances.  It is hoped that the data emerging from this experiment may confirm or refute the hypothesis that people who work in MH services demonstrate a high prevalence of behavioural traits that can be classified as ‘difficult-case-avoidant’.
 

A fragmented segment of fly

I feel this post should be accompanied by music. So go here, if you’d like to, and have a listen to Monty Python as you read.

My life in crushes

In the next few days I am going to have a birthday.  I’m not going to tell you exactly which one (you already know that I’m in my mid 30s), but given average life expectancies, it would seem reasonable to assume that I’m now half way through my life.  At this birthday I will be [...]

Memo to people who live near me

Good people of the locality, your attention, please.

After the fall

Let me tell you a story.  It’s a good story, I think – funny and sad and sweet.
Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I’ll begin…

Weird crushes

Oh look, Aethelread’s doing a post that isn’t full of self-indulgent navel-gazing, or pseudo-intellectual nonsense.  Hurrah!
On the down side, this is a post that is perhaps unlikely to appeal to my straight male and gay female readers.  Or at least, only in a ‘that guy’s really weird’ kind of way.  Which is, to be honest, [...]