nickhereandnow

You'd think there would be plenty of public toilets in Belfast city centre. With so many people coming and going, including an increasin...

Some people not only hate to make mistakes, but hate other people to know they've made mistakes. They'll do anything to cover up the...

The British government plans to tighten up on road safety, in particular introducing vision tests for older drivers, who are responsible for...

Jenny and I have been in Manchester for a week. We had heard good things about the city so we thought we'd suss it out. We had high expe...

Back soon! Nick at what remains of the Berlin Wall August 2014

I had an amazingly good attendance record at my various workplaces. I never needed to take any time off sick, except for a week's sick l...

How immensely grateful I am for being in a (more or less) secure, civilised, democratic, peaceful country. How immensely grateful I am for h...

Along with my poor memory I have a tendency to remember the good things that have happened to me and forget the bad things. Which is a great...

There are many dual language (English and Irish) road signs in Northern Ireland, but they never cease to be controversial. Some of them go u...

My father was left handed. How that happened I have no idea, he never explained. Was he copying a parent? Or copying a teacher? Who knows? B...

I'm lucky to have been hit by food poisoning very few times in my life. I can remember three instances very vividly. No doubt there were...

One thing I'm grateful for is that as a boy I didn't grow up amid a torrent of "beautiful boy" images and given the messag...

Jenny and I have both had covid for around ten days now. It's my second dose and it's a lot worse than my first dose, which just see...

It's reported that young people are very keen on birthday parties for their dogs and cats, spending an average of £120 on birthday cakes...

I have no bright ideas for a blog post this morning, so I'm falling back on an old post about things that aren't worth wasting time ...

Shocking scenes in Ballymena and Portadown, Northern Ireland in the last few days as rioting mobs targeted anyone who wasn't "local...

I do envy women the wide range of clothes they can wear, while as a  man I'm limited to a small list of clothing that's considered s...

I'm not an angry person. I'm more of the "Keep calm and carry on" persuasion. I believe that anger is pointless and usuall...

Tourists don't always respect the place they're visiting and many of them commit what can only be called acts of vandalism. The Gian...

Since Jenny and I gave up alcohol several months ago we're surprised how little we even think about alcohol. We never have any hankering...