The Random Blogger

It was when I remembered, momentarily, that today had been a big day for me many years ago, that it got me thinking about life in general. (The event in question, the full details of which are sort of irrelevant to this post, was when I proposed to my first wife.)

Many people would call that day “auspicious” or “significant”, because the things we do actually do happen on one specific date – you don’t, for example, propose to somebody across a time span of several days, as “popping the question” takes a few seconds at most.

But was it really that particular day that was (more…)

Like many people (I hope), I often have music playing inside my head. It may be a favourite song, or the theme tune from a movie, or it may be a catchy but usually irritating chorus from some TV ad.

I’ve often stopped to wonder, though why specific songs or tunes are selected by what appears to be some form of internal jukebox (like an organic version of an iPod Shuffle).

Sometimes, it may be a song I’ve not heard for over 20 or 30 years, and, as far as I can tell, not anything I’ve even thought about recently.

I accept that one of the features of the human brain that still makes it so much more powerful than the computer is its amazing ability to (more…)

They say you can tell a lot about a person by their taste in all sorts of things, such as books, movies, people, cars, food, and music, to name but a few.

If that is the case, then I’ve often wondered what my tastes say about me.

You see, in almost all of the examples I list above, the things I enjoy (more…)

Now that Christmas Day has been and gone for yet another year, I reflect on the fact that in my new life, thousands of miles from my place of birth and residence for over 40 years, I don’t miss the “festivities” one single bit!

As a child, my main recollection of Christmas Day was being dragged around to see a seemingly infinite number of “aunts”, some of whom were family and some of whom were not, which was particularly boring.

And although we did many of the things that you’re meant to do at this time of year, I always felt (more…)

The older I get, the more I feel I have in common with grumpy old men, the most well-known of whom has to be Victor Meldrew from the very popular One Foot In The Grave sit-com, although I am also reminded of the TV series of the same name, that was also both funny and sad at the same time.

I’m not sure whether the younger generation really (more…)