The latest movie to grace my best-movies-of-all-time list is a film that exudes intelligence, high drama, phenomenal acting and a deeply spiritual message…
Nacho Libre.
Some movies have the magical ability to get better with each viewing and Nacho Libre is definitely one of these. Especially when the whole family watches it multiple times. Then a well-placed Nacho quote, impression, song, or [...]
The summer of 1983. BMX mania had swept the world. Hence, all I had dreamed of all year for Christmas was a BMX. Imagine my excitement (or lack of) when I got a Grifter.
Grifter: Children’s bicycle manufactured and marketed from 1976 and until early 1983 by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham, England.
Grifter Pros:
The gear shift (which was incorporated [...]
How did I see the New Year in? I was up to 1:30am wrangling my new blog platform (goodbye Blogger, hello Wordpress), oh and watching Bride and Prejudice at the same time… I cannot honestly say which was more painstaking to watch – countless ‘error notifications or Martin Henderson being all romantic-like in a sherwani. Bollywood [...]
Many moons ago while surfing Amazon’s Listmanias I came across an author by the name of Jeremy Robinson. To cut a long story short, he was running a viral video contest to promote his new book, Pulse. I bribed my good buddy Lesmondj into spending a Saturday afternoon in the bush and what eventuated was two versions of the [...]
As I look at sleeping beauty in her favourite (and prohibited) napping spot, I can’t help but forgive her for all the shenanigans she puts me through.
Yep. Whoever it was that coined the phrase “Dogs are a man’s best friend’ must have owned a Whippet.
Check out the clip below… it was one of the contributing factors in our decision to [...]
One of my heroes once said… “Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills… You know, like nunchuck skills, bow-hunting skills, computer hacking skills…”
Let me present you with before and after shots of our humble but happy bathroom…
BEFORE
AFTERBEFORE AFTER
Honey, does old-dunga-house-doer-upper-skills count?
Welcome to my new and improved blog. You like? I tend to grow tired of my blog layout at least once a year, and on a whim today I changed it.
My wife says I change my mind like I change my underwear. I disagree… I change my undies everyday (sometimes twice). She wonders why I keep changing a perfectly good-looking [...]
Our Whippet puppy, Narnia, is 7 months old. Although I love her to bits, sometimes I really do wonder if it’s worth it. Let me give you a run down on the finer points of life with a Whippet…
1. Narnia was created by God to bring embarrassment to an otherwise happy life.
2. Narnia has almost an acre to herself but [...]
Yesterday’s post reminded me of a fateful day in 2006 while living in our very first house.
Prologue
Daddy’s little princess decided to send daddy’s phone on a marvelous adventure into the wonderful world of waterland.
Chapter 1: What if?
It all started a couple of days before when, one moment I had my mobile phone, and the next minute I didn’t. That, in [...]
I had to unblock the bathroom sink the other evening… joy. With the help of a crochet hook borrowed from PaisleyJade (yes, they really are good for something), I was able to pull out what I can only describe as a greeny, slimy, smelly, hairy, stringy goop that had to be seen to be believed. What caused it? Who [...]
