Mental Health and Goals: Double Edged Sword

I set myself a lot of goals. I've got a Bucket List that I seem to add onto almost as quickly as I cross things off, and every year I set myself resolutions. I've always kinda considered the goals to be a good thing. I'm a pretty easygoing dude, and without setting myself something to …

Oh, dear, what can the matter be?

I wrote about using the disabled toilets at work to change a little while back and despite my unease have continued to do so. Today, however, the powers that be may have sent a message for me to stop misusing these facilities. I found today's shift tougher than normal as I've just had a week off, so …

Votey McVotefarce (see what I did, there?)

Yesterday was election day here in the UK, with the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English councils being decided. There were also mayoral elections in London and other cities. As a lecturing do-gooder I urged my "friends" on social media to get down to the polls and vote, but at least I didn't write a …

Fat Boy on a Diet: The Revenge of the Belly

So, a while ago I wrote about getting on the weighing scales for the first time in a while. It was a sobering experience, which hammered home just how bad the situation had got. I meant to update because over the next few weeks I did quite well, losing almost one and a half stone …

Awkward moments: Wet balls

Like any rational person with a basic understanding of hygiene and germs, I don't like touching toilet flushes. I get why we need them, but imagining the other hands and what might have been on them touching the same handle is gross. So I applaud that anonymous genius who invented the hands free flush. You …

American Apparel’s BIG mistake

Until recently all I knew about American Apparel is that they make underwear, and that's only because it's in some annoying, cheesy song. Having found out more about them recently I can say that I am not a fan. This has nothing to do with their clothes, and more to do with their attitudes towards …

No regrets

Last week I wrote about my thoughts on the Scottish independence referendum, and my hope that they would stay in the UK. It turned out they did with the "No" camp winning by around 10%. This left Scotland in an odd position, with the country having to move on and get along together after openly showing …

News Grab Bag: Bunnies, Busts and Bedroom Blunders

Unbelievable Over in Switzerland a shopping centre decided that instead of using the cliche of bunny girls in skimpy clothes  for it's Easter promotion they'd use an actual bunny in underwear. Cue this rather daft photoshopping: It's a fairly harmless, goofy little advert. I mean, who's going to kick off about that? Well, it would …

News Grab Bag Jan/Feb 2014: Deaths, Names and Badassery

Okay, so I routinely bookmark news stories that I'd like to write about, sometimes they get a post to themselves, but now and then a few smaller ones pile up and I do these News Grab Bag ones, so this is a collection of stories that caught my eye earlier this year but which I …

Too much, Sun

I don't often by a newspaper. With the net there's not really any need, I can get the news from the BBC and Huffington Post, but I do occasionally pick up The i, sometimes even the Guardian. What I will not buy is the Sun. Or the Daily Mail, but let's focus on the Sun …