Job satisfaction is achieved when you feel good about something you have done. It is an intangible thing which can’t easily measured. Job satisfaction measured in smiles! You can’t produce statistics about job satisfaction! I have always believed that being happy at… Continue reading
The Ripon Hornblower sets the watch every evening in the City of Ripon, North Yorkshire
Our visit to The Town Hall in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Yesterday I came across some amazing urinals. You will appreciate that Hazel and I travel a lot. We are children’s entertainers and work at events large and small throughout the UK. We also do entertainment for adults including race nights, close up magic, temporary tattoos etc. In the course of our work we have… Continue reading
One of the great things about my job is that I get to travel to lots of different places and meet lots of interesting people. Today was no exception. I was performing my Pirate Puppet Show in the restaurant of Barton Grange Garden Centre near Preston. I was all set up and a very substantial [...]
A few weeks ago I decided to reorganise the book case in our dining room. Almost the entire bottom shelf was occupied by a beautiful set of Children’s Encyclopedia Britannica. I love books. I am the kind of person who will happily spend hours browsing in a book shop. When I find a book I [...]
A visit to York University yesterday brought back happy memories of our wedding day. Hazel and I were married in York Minster on 30th April 1988. What a brilliant wedding it was. We were so lucky. The wedding took place in the Lady Chapel and we had the full Regimental Band of the Yorkshire Volunteers [...]
Storytelling has been important to man since earliest times. In modern society traditional storytelling where groups of people would gather and tell stories to each other round the fireside has been replaced by stories told on television, cinema and now the Internet. Some of the old tales also had morals with important lessons about behaviour [...]
There is no doubt about the popularity of Facebook. Every one seems to have an account. You can connect with all of your friends, talk about what’s going on in your life, upload photos, upload videos, join groups, add applications. There is just so much you can do on Facebook. I have a wife and [...]
This may seem a rather rude way to start a conversation. After all suffering from wind is a rather personal matter and when it manifests itself in public it can be embarrassing. As a Punch and Judy Man suffering from wind takes on a whole new meaning. For most people a sudden blast of wind [...]