Now that is becoming easier to choose your identity I would like to identify as a Labrador. What’s not to like about that – plenty of love, nice warm bed, lots of exercise and most important of all masses of food – not just what’s given to you but whatever you can steal as well.. …
Author Archives: sykessx
What Goes Around Comes Around.
We took care of our children when they were young and needed us, but as soon as the table turns and we get old (at least in their eyes) they think we are incapable and want to interfere with our lives. The is an ad on the radio where a man rings his mother ‘Hi …
Are you an Endangered Species?
Bucket List anybody?
I’ve never had a bucket list – I can’t think that I am alone in having the unrealistic and unlikely belief that I, uniquely among the human race, am immortal. If I had a strong faith I would presumably believe that I was going on to a better (or maybe worse) place, but whilst I’d …
Mad dogs and Englishmen!
Doesn’t matter how depressed you are, a dog will always cheer you up – I have five black Labs – they are good natured, enthusiastic, loving and incredibly greedy and my youngest Incy is not just a glass half full dog, but a glass over-flowing dog! At a trip to the Vet she’s ‘Oh goody, …
MUSTN’T GRUMBLE. WHY NOT?
HIDDEN DEPTHS?
Some people have hidden depths, but I think I have not very well disguised shallows. I suffer from FTTTSD – Failure to take things seriously disorder. I do try to concentrate on the more serious things in life but I am very easily distracted. If I had been born seventy years later I would undoubtedly …
Stop Global Whining!
We’ve always been a nation of moaners – nothing wrong with that – it’s good to ring up a friend and have a good moan, but whining is something else. Moaning is cathartic, whining isn’t. It doesn’t even sound nice. People in romantic novels sometimes moan with pleasure (at least they did a hundred years …
The Good Old Days?
It’s a phrase you hear so often, particularly in my age group – The Good Old Days – things were so much better in the Old Days! But were they? Rose tinted hindsight can make us believe that everything about our youth was golden. Life was so much simpler then – in some ways it …
Has Anyone Seen My Glasses? 