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Archive | August, 2010

What an undersized world we live in

It’s amazing what you find out if you talk to your children. I was chatting to my son recently about school when the subject of teachers cropped up, not liking them mainly. He then proceeded to tell me a story about the day everyone took a magazine into school to discuss.”I don’t remember that”, I [...]

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The calm before the storm??

Let’s hope so.   It has been eerily quiet of late and realising times would be quiet in the office I thought it would be good to get a few visits in the diary. While that can be nice for a while we all need some commercial activity to get the business juices flowing. Talking [...]

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We gotta app for that

Optician is always keen to try out the latest gizmos and so we signed up to one of the latest iPhone apps designed to measure your PD. While this might look like someone playing Botticelli or doing a very poor Adolf Hitler impression it is in fact the way the app works.   What the person [...]

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Unbelieveable –shot for sunglasses

When I first saw this story about a young man being shot for a pair of Cartier sunglasses I thought it had to be a one off. Think again.  This story about a lad shot for rusfusing to hand over his sunglasses while leaving a night club is truly shocking, unless you live in Detroit where between 15 [...]

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Radio Daze

My first week back from the Alpe d’Huez triathlon was a bit of a blur. Everyone seems to be on hopliday at the moment ( as was I) which  makes life harder for those of us left at home.  As my second week started I had a few of interesting telephone calls. The first was Radio Scotland asking for [...]

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