Another day, another arrogant pontification from the peanut gallery. I recently shared some thoughts on how annoying and intrusive it is to be approached on the streets by religious recruiters. They have no respect for the people they approach. They have not stopped to consider, in any way shape or form, whether or not the […]
It is not without irony (and often a lack of self-awareness) that religious fanatics deride and complain that ‘woke’ culture is getting all up in their faces. No one has ever knocked on my door to speak to me about atheism, or the LGBT community. No one has ever stopped me in the street to […]
For me, it would be £s rather than $s, but the principle is the same. If I were suddenly a millionaire, what would I do? I’d put some money (say, £250k) into my daughter’s savings account, because future-proofing her finances can never be a bad thing. I’d sink between £20k and £30k into doing up […]
Wealdstone had a 13-point lead at the top of the Vanarama National League, after 30 games. There was still more or less a third of the season to go, and it could yet all end in tears, but so far, the club had defied expectations. The original objective? Avoid relegation. It was fair to say […]
So, here we are, with the opening Muse of 2023. What has the New Year offered us so far? Icky Let’s rewind a little bit, to the conclusion of 2022. That year ended in a similar vein to how it began, namely, with covid-19 running amok through the household. In January 22, my wife, daughter […]
I’d have to include some of my weird, personal artwork, such as the above. It would fun to receive that again, some twenty or thirty years from now. I’d chuck in my meerkat costume, for giggles. There’d be some railway stuff in there. How could I not feature something Lion King related? There would inevitably […]
For part one, see here. After 15 games Wealdstone sat top of the Vanarama National League, which, given the pre-season objective of ‘avoid relegation’, was considerably better progress than I could have asked for. The team had played extremely well, though I still expected the wheels to come off at some point. As we moved […]
Try to imagine what the world was like for those in 1899. The first ‘true’ car had appeared in 1886, but it bore little resemblance to today’s vehicles. Planes were a nice, imaginary concept. Horse and carriage, and possibly trains, were the chief means of conveying people from one place to another. Telephones were extraordinarily […]
When you have a nearly-teenage daughter, you hear a lot of funny stuff. My daughter sent me a video the other day, and it is utterly strange, and perfect for this prompt: She also likes to suggest I like Sid the Sloth. I am a meerkat, dammit!
The place I do nearly all my writing is upon my sofa, with the laptop on my, erm, lap. Very occasionally, I’ll sit at the dining table, but that’s extremely rare. However, the dream would be a classic, old-fashioned personal office, like you see in stately homes, complete with a bookshelf filled with books, and […]
In the not so distant future, I will have been blogging at Meerkat Musings for TEN years. That's sort of scary. I never set out to reach a milestone like that, but ten years on, Meerkat Musings feels like my home-on-the-web, so to speak. #BloggingCommunity
Now, this I find difficult. Of those I have tried, which admittedly is not many, I am rather fond of McDonald's fries, though Burger King's have grown on me.
Let me reiterate, this post is not suitable for work! However, it is perhaps not for the reasons you think (or hope!). I am no prude. I am a man of the world, and familiar with activities of an, um, personal nature. Let it also be said that if people wish to educate themselves about […]
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