New Year’s Eve means different things to different people. To many, it’s the perfect excuse to go out and get absolutely, properly, fall-down shit-faced on way too much hooch. Judging from my own past, I would guess that this option works mainly for youngsters between the ages of eighteen years and their late twenties, mainly [...]
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Another New Year
Posted by cleverfella on December 31, 2011
http://cleverfella.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/another-new-year/
What Goes Around…
Lately I’ve been scaring the crap out of myself with one of my parenting techniques – I’m starting to sound just like my folks did when I was a kid. I guess this happens to every person with children but I really thought I’d be different, that those lame, tired, old clichés that my parents [...]
Posted by cleverfella on December 20, 2011
http://cleverfella.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/what-goes-around/
Christmas Cheer
I want to believe in Father Christmas again. Despite the tinsle-tinged nightmare that is a shopping mall in December, the nauseating Boney-M songs or the incessant Christmas-special adverts which constitute the reality of my festive season, I still remember the innocence of a time when I truly and sincerely believed in The Magic of Christmas. [...]
Posted by cleverfella on December 8, 2011
http://cleverfella.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/christmas-cheer/
What I’ve Learned – Part I
As a typically modest, middle-aged man who believes he has style, wit, fame and fortune, I really enjoy reading Esquire Magazine. One of my favourite features in the magazine (apart from ‘Funny Joke From A Beautiful Woman’) is the ‘What I’ve Learned’ series of articles, where rich, famous and stylish men (and women) provide a [...]
Posted by cleverfella on November 29, 2011
http://cleverfella.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/what-ive-learned-part-i/
Serious About School Sport
As a parent with two young children in Prep School, I’ve spent my fair share of time on the sidelines of the sports field supporting their various sporting endeavours. Firstly, for those of you still sensibly weighing up the implications of having your own children, I can assure you that all kids take their sport [...]
Posted by cleverfella on November 18, 2011
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