Let’s all get rude and get rid of pushy salespeople. Everyone gets that knock on the door from time to time… Jehovah’s Witnesses and energy companies, tree fellers and conservatory suppliers, roof repairers and carpet cleaners …. isn’t it time to get rude? Rider has been known to be very naughty with people intrusive enough [...]
Rider shops at a Supermarket from time to time, usually with a list and focussed on what’s on it. After all the hard work of shoving a trolley round, packing it and unpacking it at the checkout and repacking it prior to unpacking into the car and facing packing away at home, what do you [...]
Coming soon – as soon as Rider has figured out how to upload it. This appears as an Appendix to the story of Aberford School but you might enjoy it as a stand alone article cause it’s a really random snippet.
Don’t you envy the Pope his surety? Likewise all those ‘priests’ who set themselves up as the interpreters of God. Those men – and they are nearly always men – who are utterly convinced they know their place, and the place of women, in the great scheme of things. How very dare they! Rider is [...]
Writeous Dude had mixed fortunes in London, finding it hard to finance living costs whilst trying to write for stage and screen. With web based companies and new ways of working flourishing and a sister in that industry (Piggynap) he’s decided to go into something related to his interests and ambitions. Through some writing work [...]
According to an article in the Observer this Sunday, there is quite an experiment going on in Detroit to radically reinvent the city. Decimated by the loss of the old industries, great swathes of the city lie abandoned. Started by a mix of private citizens and others there has been a move to cultivate derelict [...]
Picture a gorgeous summer day – village school sports day on the school field.. disabled older chap makes his way in his motorised buggy to an entrance he knows he can negotiate. This entrance is used by grass cutting chaps and is accessed from an estate road where residents park in the T shaped areas. [...]
The Yorkshire Post had a few poignant lines tucked away on an inside page on 7/7. The father of one of the young Muslim bombers had taken a chair and sat by his son’s unmarked grave to read his copy of the Koran and, no doubt, reflect on that day. Rider was moved by this small report – in [...]
A Parish Council Clerk’s job is often fraught. Due to streetlights being replaced and City Council Contractors dragging their feet, we had no Hanging Baskets last year. This year Councillors and Clerk spent hours on phone and emailing to drive the Contractors to get the lights up. Then ditto to get them painted. With days [...]
England’s first match tonight against USA. Rider can hardly wait…. a plan has been carefully formulated…. membership of Lovefilm in place, trips out in prospect, wine in garden if the sun shines with one of several splendid books…. Fun to speculate on how England will go out of the competition… will it be that crazy [...]
