In exchange for saving the pennies on a birthday party for Tom, Rach and Joe and I agreed to clear out of the house for the day so he could have his mates round and do whatever smelly teenagers do. We decided to head across to Weston Park and check out the newly reopened museum. […]

I need money. A simple statement and true for most folks I would guess but nonetheless I need money. I’ve never really been the kind of guy motivated by money, and truth be told I’m still not, but these days I am feeling a little valueless. I have things that I am passionate about and […]

A muslim teaching assistant has been suspended from work for wearing a veil. I saw an interview with the woman in question on ITN and have to agree with Peter Sissons who put to her that many people find it off putting and intimidating. Her argument was that she should have the right to wear […]

In a scene eerily reminiscent of 9/11 a small private plane crashed into a high rise in New York, killing two people within the building and Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who was piloting the plane, and his instructor / passenger.
I thought I would take a quick wander around Red Sox Nation this morning to check […]

After a little bit of fannying about I have managed to upload all the old posts from the previous PJMorledge weblog. It’s buggered the flow a little bit but I’ll investigate the old support docs at Wordpress and try and smooth it out.
Meanwhile in the wider world we appear to be at the brink of […]

Loss is something I feel that I have been able to manage fairly well in my life so far. But then I’ve been relatively lucky. Thus far I’ve lost a grandfather, a grandmother, a dog and something else we shall not mention. By and large I have handled each occurence with emotions kept pretty firmly […]

It might just be the way the media is portraying it, but there appears to be a spate of school shootings taking place in the States at the minute. Perhaps the most tragic of all being the recent shooting in the Amish community of Lancaster County. I have a lot of time for the Amish. […]

Wednesday is generally drinks with the guys day (for reference the guys are Jim and Steve). We get together at a little place called Ruskins in the city centre and pretty much regardless of the weather we sit outside and watch the world go by over a cup of tea. It might be fair to […]

My erstwhile other half displays an unfathomable ability to make friends with anyone, in any circumstance in the shortest amount of time. In our previous incarnation as partners this caused me no end of paranoid panic, but now I just consider it a rare gift.
Needless to say, it turns out that the devil dug is […]

He said let there be light and there was light. He created the world and everything in it in six days and on the seventh day he rested, but not before suggesting to Adam that he ought to take a trip down to B&Q because Eve fancies a new shed for the garden. And so […]

As you may or may not know, I recently got a dog for the family. I’d been resisting for quite a while (despite being a big dog lover, I was also dirt poor) but when my Sisters dog had puppies I figured it was maybe time to get one.
Fidget (for that is her name and […]

Back in the day I was a big fan of Cracker. I didn’t know a great deal about Robbie Coltrane (apart from some pretty reasonable appearances in some pretty awful movies) and was delighted that the part almost seemed made for him. Add some excellent writing and a first rate supporting cast and you had […]