Getting older is a great thing. It makes you take notice of things and, as I’ve gotten older I’ve noticed something particularly intriguing about the people I am surrounded by, in both a literal and figurative sense. They are increasingly creative and productive people. I mean this in two senses: On the one hand IContinue reading “Inspiration through innovation and creative hocus-pocus”
Author Archives: James Tawton
The beginnings of something
Truthfully, it wasn’t going well. It hadn’t been going very well at all for the last ten minutes at least and, if I was really an truly honest, I would even have said that it was rapidly disintegrating as a negotiation. If I’d had the temerity to still refer to it as that. So IContinue reading “The beginnings of something”
Excerpt from the book – a nastyish bit
Outside of the fake castle wall of the pub the sounds of crunching and the occasional growls of play at the removal of flesh and sinew from bones, and the plaintive sounding but victorious barks were persisting. The dogs were settling in for a long meal and, as dogs do, were intending on consuming everyContinue reading “Excerpt from the book – a nastyish bit”
Why I really enjoyed Parks and Recreation, and will never watch it again.
You will almost definitely (especially if you’re bothering to read this) be aware of Parks and Recreation, the surprise hit from NBC which has just completed it’s 5th season in the US. It’s creepingly growing a vociferous and passionate audience in the UK and elsewhere now, and the well realised and acted characters are takingContinue reading “Why I really enjoyed Parks and Recreation, and will never watch it again.”
Hiring a Van
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For most men in this day and age, an age of information technology and electronic communication, we go to work, sit at a desk and tip-tap away at our keyboards and feel all very clever and important about whatever mindless and irrelevant form-filling and box-ticking we’re engaged in. There are few…
Real Work
Often bemoaned in this climate of recession and joblessness – even though employment levels haven’t dropped with the economy itself – is the instability of the once-taken-for-granted ‘Career’. I remember being told, when I was too young to care (so, about 16) that ‘There aren’t any jobs for life anymore’. By which the suspiciously motivatedContinue reading “Real Work”
Bugs Bunny – Real Cartoons
Cartoons. We all love cartoons, or we did, at least when we had the time to watch them. As we get older we phase away from them but, now with a couple of young children, I’ve been exposed to at least as many cartoon hours in the last few years than I have any actualContinue reading “Bugs Bunny – Real Cartoons”
New Year’s Resolutions – Why the hell not.
Not so long ago I’d have been the first person to pour scorn on the idea of a new year’s resolution which makes me a cynical shit, but then I was (and still am) like that with lots of things. Fortunately, like many people, I am also prone to radically changing my mind about certainContinue reading “New Year’s Resolutions – Why the hell not.”
Great music cliches we shouldn’t ignore
And, what I mean by this are cliched songs. There are loads of songs around and we all like listening to good stuff. This generally means broadening your musical experience where you can and trying to find new things. Also, if you’re like me and a bit of precious geeky type, and not without aContinue reading “Great music cliches we shouldn’t ignore”
Television Shows That Have Passed Me By.
Television, she is a fickle mistress. Sometimes it’s great, mostly it’s awful rubbish. Then, in the early 90s we experienced a sudden uplift in the number of television shows from different countries dropping into our television schedules. This wasn’t a completely new thing, as we’d been used to imports since the early 80s, with Dallas,Continue reading “Television Shows That Have Passed Me By.”
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