DeeKnow’s Grotto

We have a toilet down the corridor from us that happens to be the closest and most convenient location for daily ablutionary activity. It also happens to possess a number of classic toilet usability disaster features which I detail following for your edutainment. Really makes me wonder how much thought people put into toilet [...]

A good friend of mine who works for a major fuel company in NZ emailed a serious and responsible guideline to me this morning to encourage safe responses to refuelling fire incidents in petrol stations. Following is my edited version which you are unlikely to see posted up at your local outlet…

Static-related incidents while fuelling [...]

Walking back from the food-halls to my office just now I glanced down at the glorious steaming-hot container of chilli-Squid and pickled cabbage I’d purchased and began to entertain thoughts of sympathy for the glorious sea-creature that had died to fuel my bodily functions.
It wasn’t a long walk back so the Squid wasn’t gonna be [...]

Kiwis will know what I mean by “the Trots” …
I’m not referring to cobbled horse racing here, Bolshevik revolutionaries or Del-boy and Rodney. I am referring to a serious case of some stomach bug that ruined Kym and mines weekend and my Monday just gone.
Things had started so well on Friday. Dinner out with [...]