by Jack Barrow | Jun 9, 2020 | General Blog, Thoughts and Observations
Some years ago I was stopped on an apparently open road by a policeman standing in front of an unattended ambulance. My curiosity, and perhaps my slight irritation about why I couldn’t continue with my journey, was soon answered. A trolley appeared from around a bend...
by Jack Barrow | Apr 3, 2020 | General Blog, Thoughts and Observations
People are saying how much has changed in just a few weeks. Suddenly people are at home, with their children full time, getting food has become more like foraging, socialisation has stopped and the government is acting completely out of character. So much has changed....
by Jack Barrow | Mar 22, 2020 | General Blog, Non Fiction, Thoughts and Observations
People used to tell me that I should get out more. For the past few years I’ve been working from home as the sort of writing that is my day job means I don’t I don’t need to be in an office. If a client needs me to, I can log into their servers and work from my tiny...
by Jack Barrow | Mar 11, 2020 | General Blog, General Silliness, reviews
For those of you in the know, and you know who you are, you’ll be aware that BBC Radio 4 is the soundtrack of my being. All of life is on Radio 4, which makes it a pretty big platform. Everything you want to know about news and current affairs, the greatest drama,...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 30, 2020 | General Blog, General Silliness, Non Fiction, Travelogue
A few weeks ago, we went to Bournemouth, I say we went to Bournemouth, we actually went to Wimborne but in the two or three days we were there we visited Bournemouth twice and only really slept in Wimborne. I say it was a few weeks ago, Christmas was a few weeks ago,...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 3, 2019 | Social Media, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
I can now reveal, it’s official, Facebook are actually evil. I’m not just talking about the misuse of your personal data, possibly allowing foreign powers to interfere with democratic processes or even all those pictures of cats. Worse than that, if you allow them to,...
