Without a hitch 👍

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Welcome to the Without a hitch 👍 podcast. Listen to Richard Allardice tell true stories of failure, capture the frequently disastrous minutiae of daily life (as parent, colleague, person), and share casual, practical tidbits for success. Expect to laugh.

Podcast 6: Hitches

Podcast 6: Hitches

Today’s episode is about hitchhiking, and that choice you have to make when someone pulls over to give you a ride: Should I trust this person? Listen to four tales where this was a difficult question to answer. Note: Contains R-rated language and themes.Features: * A paranoid fellow wielding

Podcast 5: Smoko

Podcast 5: Smoko

Today’s episode is about work. It chronicles a series of jobs that I thought were terrible at the time, although perhaps I should have given them more of a chance. I was young, and didn’t yet have much of a work ethic. Features: * Riding the zeitgeist and cleaning

Podcast 4: Hey, teacher!

Podcast 4: Hey, teacher!

Today’s episode is about teaching, including what it’s like to be a teacher, plus the impression we might form of our own teachers. Features: * A story of teaching in Japan and trying to melt the ice with difficult colleagues * The performance of teaching gone wrong, plus trying to

Podcast 3: School’s out

Podcast 3: School’s out

Today’s episode is about school and a little about hard luck – negotiating the slings and arrows of a boarding school in the nineties, and finding the humour in all of it. Features: * Some background notes on what school is really for * The story of a duckling, a Vauxhall Viva,

Podcast 2: What’s in a name?

Podcast 2: What’s in a name?

Today’s episode is about names – the names we choose for ourselves, and how we might “make a name for ourselves”. Features: * The story behind the name “Without a hitch” * A troupe of guys all called John, how I distinguished between them, and my attempts to make a name for

Podcast 1: Holy WTF

Podcast 1: Holy WTF

Today’s theme is impressions. What feelings or impressions do you get when you first meet someone, or experience something for the first time? What things stay with you, and what effect do they have on you? Features a housesitter called Digby and a comprehensive list of flatting horrors.