Tag: Messages from the Universe
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The Superhero Diaries 2.4: Going nowhere fast
Technical hitches, it would seem, affect superheroes too. Here’s a transcript of the Satellite Navigation device in the Elite Force of Britain’s Four-Wheel Drive, used whilst the team were supposedly investigating the sudden appearance of a small island named Middlehaven, just off the coast of southern England somewhere: Good. Morning. Please. Enteryour. Destination. . Thank…
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Cheap and cheerful
I’m not shoppist. I’ll shop anywhere when I need to. I have my favourite supermarket, where I go regularly, usually with bad hair and a wonky trolley, but go I do, and have, it can be said, a whale of a time. OK. Maybe not that great an experience, but it’s OK. Not what could…
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Technical Hitches

My on-line banking service is currently not available. Or ‘temporarily unavailable’ as they are declaring on their website. The media are having a field day, reporting widespread problems including card refusals. And here was I, a mere three hours ago, joking with the cashier in the shop that I wasn’t expecting my new card to…
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Sommat Good?
An’ when the words just fail to form The time to write’s not right But is it right to write any words Or only them what’s right? My words tonight are out of sight My form is not on form But are my words tonight wrote right And this is jus’ the norm? Right words,…
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Through Light and Dark
See this picture here? The picture that Sideview has set as her weekend theme for this week? The picture of the corridor with all those doors, and the shadows and the light parts and the other door at the end? That picture is how I see my mind. Not all of it, but the place…