Domestic Quirks – Page 8 – Dave Thomas's Blog

What Has Happened To The English Language?

I was watching TV tonight and on came the adverts and I heard the English language get totally butchered by a well know celebrity publicising a car sale company. I…

DaveThomas April 28, 2022

Food for Thought Humour Personal

Tokyo Olympics – 2021

It was in 1964 that I was first glued to the television set watching black and white grainy pictures of swimming, athletics and boxing from the first Olympics held in…

DaveThomas August 7, 2021

Financial Freedom Hashtag Holidays Wealth Creation

World Book Day

World Book Day is an annual event which takes place on April 23rd in most places around the world and on the first Thursday in March in the United Kingdom. This day was established to…

DaveThomas March 4, 2021

Financial Freedom Food for Thought Hashtag Holidays

Groundhog Day

I'm sure most, if not all, of us have seen the Bill Murray film, "Groundhog Day" where he is a cynical weatherman sent to Punxsutawney in western Pennsylvania to witness…

DaveThomas February 2, 2021

Hashtag Holidays Personal Read A Book Day

Read A Book Day on 6th September

I posted a while ago about the hashtag calendar (https://davethomasonline.com/blog/creating-relevancy-with-your-blog-posts/) and made a pledge to myself to try and write a couple of posts a month utilising the various opportunities…

DaveThomas September 1, 2020

Grumpy Old Man Humour

Grumpy Old Man – Social Distancing

After a good nine to ten weeks of enforced self-isolation, this past week I have been allowed outside of my house into the more general world by Mrs Grumpy apart…

DaveThomas May 31, 2020

Food for Thought Humour Personal

Food For Thought – Who Does It?

After the post last week, https://davethomasonline.com/blog/food-for-thought-the-indispensable-man/, I dug out another simple, but humourous story that illustrates the need for communication. I've looked for the author of this, but their name…

DaveThomas May 18, 2020

Food for Thought Humour Personal

Food For Thought – The Indispensable Man

I was clearing out some old boxes of papers in the garage the other day and came across this wonderful poem (and a real poem in that the words rhyme…

DaveThomas May 11, 2020

Grumpy Old Man Self-Help

What am I Missing in this COVID-19 Lock Down?

I was out walking with the wife yesterday to collect my heart medications so we had a pleasant stroll to the local Pharmacy of about 3km and got to talking…

DaveThomas April 28, 2020

Grumpy Old Man Humour

Grumpy Old Man – Cricket World Cup 2019

I'm writing this after watching England beat New Zealand in a thrilling Super Over finale to this great tournament staged here in the UK. After soundly thrashing New Zealand in…

DaveThomas July 16, 2019