UTTERLY CONFUSED.COM

This blog started as way for me to write about surviving old age in a modern and confusing world and hopefully make people smile.   That was several years ago and I’m still here, still surviving and still ranting about the numerous things that confuse, irritate or amuse me.   So, to start the New Year I …

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire – unless you’re trying to cook chicken on a BBQ

Jane Austen famously begins Pride and Prejudice with “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”.   Today I think he would want a luxury car and a large house and I imagine that potential wives would miraculously appear. Many old …