
I have an idea for a VR game… you play a Victorian post box.
That’s it.
That’s the joke.
I have an idea for a VR game… you play a Victorian post box.
That’s it.
That’s the joke.
A fun conversation with your children over dinner and it’s funny the things you end up creating in Corel PaintShop Pro.
Continue reading Finding DoritosLast month, while clearing out Mum’s flat I came across this tatty old thing, the kitchen sink (model 1.024) from my younger sister’s old Caroline’s Home doll’s house.
You know the saying “everything but the kitchen sink”, that means “nearly everything one can reasonably imagine; many different things, often to the point of excess or redundancy”? Lots of people used to say that about my late Mum’s handbag. She kept a lot of things in it.
“Blimey! Rosalie, you have everything in there except the kitchen sink,” they’d laugh.
And my mum would rummage at the bottom of her handback and proudly produce this old thing.
“Actually,” she would counter, “I do have the kitchen sink in here.”
But it served a purpose other than just a comic retort. Behind the tiny cupboard doors, which over time broke and were repeatedly taped together with masking tape, Mum kept three ten pence pieces—the right amount of money to get her into most public toilets in an emergency.
That’s the kind of practicality that I admired about my mum.
The things you find when you go rooting through computer folders.
This was, of course, a play on the Motörhead album Bomber, and the fact that Lemmy had a similar ‘tash.
A few weeks ago, I started a blog called You must not go outside! to give out daily advice that the UK government definitely isn’t giving but probably should during the 2020 UK lockdown.
Continue reading You must not go outside!