Richard Allardice

In brief 🩲 1. From the journal: Fencing at Hogwarts, unable to “armour” 2. Feast your eyes: Tattoo flowers, eventually without lines 3. Advice that’s better than bad – it’s good: Shower curtain curtails genius 4. You can do this: A timeline for off-scale happiness From the journal 📖 After a

Faith in humanity: Partially restored Last year I wrote about a housesitter – Digby – gone bad. All of the housesitters we’d had look after our place to that point had been great, but this one was a BAD EGG, and failed us in spectacular fashion. Up until the Digby incident

In brief 🩲 * If you’re not really a pet person the road to becoming one can be tough. * My wife Vic adores hot drinks but tends to lose them faster than she drinks them. I am the hot-drink support guy in our relationship. * There’ll be no newsletter next week,

Doogie Howser, M.D. had all the answers I watched a lot of Doogie Howser, M.D. as a kid. My favourite part of each episode was when he sat down at his computer to compose a digital diary entry. The white cursor would blink on that blue screen and

In brief 🩲 * Not all time can be valuable, and it’s probably important to waste some time * Trying not to waste water might make your hot drinks taste weird * A teacher who takes students to a waste treatment plant for science certainly must have all the answers * Maybe video games