It’s time for a rather epic Meerkat Muse! A lot has happened in the past couple of weeks, starting with a busy Wednesday, two weeks ago. Preparing It was a hectic day, Wednesday the 21st. You see, my wife, daughter and I were heading up to my parents, and we wouldn’t be home for a […]
As is by now typical for my prompts, I am not writing this and publishing it on the same day. ‘How I feel today’ relates to how I felt on the 8th of July, as a long day at work gradually drew to a close. That feeling was one of annoyance and aggravation. I had […]
Welcome one and all to the Meerkat Muse. Big Openings Well, it wasn’t exactly big, but after four years of stop-start progress, disruption from pandemics, war and corporate failure, the cinema in the centre of town has finally opened. It has been a challenging genesis for the cinema! When work began at the start of […]
Welcome back to the Meerkat Muse! What’s been happening kats? The End of the Euros Road On the 10th of July, England (who had somehow scraped their way to the semi-finals of Euro 2024) faced the Netherlands for a place in the final. Awaiting either side would be Spain, who had come from behind to […]
Welcome to what promises to be a very busy Meerkat Muse! There’s a lot of territory to cover here, but first, I need to pay special attention to today, the 10th of July… The First Day Yes, there is a Writing Prompt post with this title, and it just so happens to have gone live […]
Welcome back to the Meerkat Muse! Inching Closer We are edging towards the 4th of July, and the General Election here in the UK. I am increasingly considering voting for the Greens, who have a fair manifesto built around unburdening the poor and needy, but the reality is that Labour will win. The question is […]
What jobs have you had? Like most people, I’ve had a few different jobs in my time. As a young, fresh-faced meerkat, I started out working in an office, and did this at different locations for several years. To begin, I was booking hotel rooms and making travel arrangements on behalf of clients of a […]
We are moving into summer, but are we getting a summer?! Welcome back to the Meerkat Muse! Feeling Low Recall that, right at the end of the previous Muse, I’d mentioned I had begun to feel under the weather? Well, that feeling accelerated rather rapidly, and as per the Wednesday, I was feeling quite sorry […]
Working in retail sales, you will inevitably face people who feel the need to be passive-aggressive and awkward. These traits are not likely to yield any favours, yet there are still people who think that being rude and difficult will grant them preferential treatment. Here’s a newsflash to those people: it won’t. My approach to […]
It appears Spring has finally sprung! Welcome back to The Meerkat Muse! Tired Times Back at the very end of April, my wife and stepdaughter went to see the band Train in concert, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Getting there was reasonably straight-forward, but getting back had the potential to be very awkward. […]
Since getting home, the cat has been convinced he's owed about a million meals, and has incessantly reminded us of this.
The Daily Mail readership has dropped 32%, people are saying they will be bankrupt before 2030 because no-one wants to advertise in them.
I'm sure that if we RT we can bring their downfall sooner, and GB News too.
Well, it's been a hectic week in sunny Sicily, hot and lovely, albeit I feel like I've barely tanned!
Returning to Nesslabs for inspiration, we find ourselves pondering what it would mean to upload our mind to the cloud. The merging of meerkat and machine is an intriguing, frightening, exciting prospect. Uploading is an idea explored by by the TV show Upload (which I am yet to see), and it’s basically a means of […]
Read more