nickhereandnow

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...

Every so often someone suggests giving people in so-called over-large houses some sort of incentive to downsize to a smaller property. It ha...

It's still true that many people find their pets more soothing and reassuring than other people - maybe even their partners. A survey of...

Over-tourism has come to Belfast. It took a while because (for obvious reasons) Belfast wasn't a popular tourist destination till a few ...

The recent slight damage to a £42 million Rothko painting in a Rotterdam museum by a careless child has once again led to debate about wheth...

Hannah suggests I have an aversion to children. Not so. I have nothing against children, and in general I'm very tolerant of them. After...

It's often said that oldies are more fastidious than the young, constantly complaining about this, that and the other thing. I don't...

When I was young I believed people were basically rational and the world was run on a rational basis. As I got older I realised this wasn...

Jenny and I have had a few occasions when we couldn't quite remember where we had parked the car, but we've always found it after a ...

You would think that by the year 2025 schoolgirls would be allowed to wear trousers instead of skirts, but there are still quite a few schoo...

There is still a lot of prejudice against people with ginger hair. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason, simply blind prejudic...

Apparently despite all those TV programmes and media articles about decluttering, if anything the problem's getting worse. Studies show ...

Social anxiety is a bit of a bugger, isn't it? There I am at another routine social event, confronted by some total stranger, wondering ...