Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge!

This is a lovely Grauniad piece about autism and board games . These parts resonated in particular: Growing up, board games were my refuge...

First of all, I am not being compelled or forced to do this, at least not by any external agent. This is all about acknowledging my mistake....

I would have posted this earlier but I noticed that I had 69 posts in 2023, and I am a child. Well, 2023 was a bit of a crapper. Indulge m...

I asked the Magic 8 Ball if 2023 was going to be a good year... Good luck everyone!

This is me a couple of weeks ago: I was in accident and emergency, having been rushed there by the ambulance, after a mysterious seizure...

Oh dear, I've done it again. It's been a while. It's perhaps time for an update on what I've been doing the past few month...

I have some friends up in That London. I have known them for years; we all met at university and we stayed quite close even after my life we...

Everything is broken. Everything is wrong. Except it isn't, and I know it isn't, but cold logic doesn't mean much when whatever ...

I went to a birthday party a few days ago and it was awful. Well, to be fair, the party was fine but I went as a Plus One -- which is not to...

I wasn't going to discuss the Dwimmermount imbroglio. I didn't contribute much to the Kickstarter and it doesn't seem like my p...

My presentation is tomorrow and I am more than a little nervous. I know that there's no sense to being frightened, because I have to do...

You've seen the movie. It probably had Paul Rudd and Drew Barrymore in it, or if you were really unlucky, Gerard Butler and Jennifer A...

Or in the words of John McClane, how can the same sh*t happen to the same guy twice? In an unwelcome echo of previous events , I seem to ...

Well, that didn't last long. The thing I mentioned in the last post , the shocking-but-good thing I was being so coy about, I discovered...

Crikey. That went fast.

Again, it's been a while. Oops. Things have been fairly eventful, which makes a change, as usually I struggle to find interesting things...

(Names withheld to protect the innocent) A: You know, football can be a bit dull. They should replace the players with glamour models and fi...

Apparently, I am some natural anomaly, an abomination, an abberation. It seems that it's impossible to anaesthetise me. Ouch.