5-4-Friday… 5 First World hotel problems

5-4-Friday… 5 First World hotel problems

I’ve been fortunate, over the years, to have jobs that have afforded me the opportunity to travel quite a bit. I’ve managed to visit places in India, China, most of Europe, Australia and USA without spending a penny of my own money. Not forgetting that I also spent a...
5-4-Friday… 5 Alien Foreign Things

5-4-Friday… 5 Alien Foreign Things

We’re always doing something at work for charity even though, to be fair, it’s often for our own Home Instead Senior Care UK charity, the Bring Joy Foundation. And no, I make no apology for giving it a blatant plug here. After all, “it’s my story and I’ll plug if I...
5-4-Friday… 5 Irish things

5-4-Friday… 5 Irish things

I’ve spent the last few days in Ireland, specifically the Sandyford area of Dublin. It’s a decent place with decent people, which is no bad thing given that I’m going to be spending quite a bit of time there over the next nine months or so....
5-4-Friday… 5 Nineties Smokes

5-4-Friday… 5 Nineties Smokes

I was on LinkedIn the other night, stalking people. This is, of course, what all normal people resort to doing once they have become bored with stalking people on Facebook. For those who are familiar with LinkedIn, I made the fatal mistake of clicking on that “People...
5-4-Friday… 5 office gripes

5-4-Friday… 5 office gripes

It’s amazing the little things that can cause a row at home. There are things that you do that you think is perfectly acceptable behaviour that really winds up your partner and can cause the most horrific, pointless rows. And vice versa, of course; there are little,...