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Friday 2/12/16 - Short Post No. 4 - This Week's Wristwatch.
Geez, my handwriting's sloppy. Man, that notepad was pretty cheap and crappy paper...First World problems. Work is still busy in the lead-up to Christmas. But that's cool. This shall pass, and it feels...
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Friday 9/12/16 - Short Post No. 5 & This Week's Wristwatches.
Another short post this week, gang. I find myself getting home from work a little tired as we barrel towards the end of the year. Work is busy, but I can see that the workload is starting to drop off a...
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Friday 16/12/16 - RIP Mr Gill, Will 2016 Kindly F*ck Off, Please?, & This...
A few weeks ago, my wife brought home a copy of the September issue of US Esquire Magazine. Clint Eastwood and his son Scott graced the cover of this issue and there was a great joint interview in it....
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Christmas Eve, 2016 - This Week's Wristwatch.
And here's the tiramisu dessert that I made last weekend, in honor of the recently departed A.A Gill. I cut out some card-stock to make the lettering. Then I laid it on top of the dessert and gave it...
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Friday 30/12/16 - The Year The Music Died (RIP George Michael), An Antidote...
What a friggin' year it's been. I can't think of any generation that hasn't been hit by the deaths of notable people this year. If you're into music, we started the year by losing Bowie back in...
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The Best Laid Plans...
I dunno about you, but I always seem to decide to make changes (big and small) in the last few days of the year. Without calling them resolutions, that is exactly what they are. Who am I kidding, after...
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Friday 6/1/2017 - Oh, Summer, You Finally Got Here, Turning Fifty-One & This...
Six fifty-five pm on Friday evening and it's currently 35 degrees (95 F). I got home from work earlier, and peeled off my sweat-stained shirt. There's no air-con in my car, which makes the 20 minute...
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My Most-Worn Wristwatches of 2016
Time for my third annual review of which wristwatches I wore the most throughout last year.Looking back, it would appear that dive watches got the most wear. I can't say I was as adventurous throughout...
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Friday 13/1/2017 - This Week's Wristwatch
I wore the Seiko 7002 last weekend for some handyman duties. Which took longer than I thought they would. Still not completed, either. Ahh, well. Tomorrow's another weekend. I'm liking the way this...
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Friday 20/1/17 & Saturday 21/1/17 - Happy Birthday, Mr Grant, Reversing...
FRIDAY EVENING Man, I'm tired tonight. Had a lousy night's sleep last night as it rained for hours. Meanwhile, at work today, I had about fifteen repairs to write quotes...
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Friday 27/1/2017 - This Week's Wristwatches.
I grew up in the 1970s on a semi-steady diet of TV comedy, which included The Carol Burnett Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This may explain why I like a gal with a sense of humour, a quick wit,...
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Friday 3/2/17 & Saturday 4/2/17 - A Million Page-Views, My Job Goes Full-Time...
Okay, it's getting late into Friday night and I don't know how long I'll last so here we go.Saturday morning- Hmm, looks like I didn't last very long at all. Right, so this blog of mine clocked up a...
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Friday 10/2/17 - This Week's Wristwatches (Short Post...Hopefully)
I started full-time hours at my job on Monday, which is great. Of course, this means that I'm now getting home around seven pm, so my free time has shrunk considerably. Welcome back to The Rat Race,...
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Friday 17/2/17 - Question For UK-based Typewriter Collectors, & This Week's...
Ooh, but I'm starting this one late this week. Okay, I'll be brief. There's a fellow watch collector I know who's interested in getting himself a typewriter. I'll call him Horatio. It's as good a name...
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Friday 24/2/17 - A Pencast & This Week's Wristwatches.
Wore the WatchCo Seamaster 300 briefly last weekend. Since adding a half-link to the bracelet, I've gotten a better fit out of it on warm days when my wrist swells up a little. I wore the Oris Diver...
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Friday 3/3/17 - RIP Hicks, Oh, Warren, Warren, Warren!, Happy Birthday, Mr...
The week began with a reminder that 2016 was not some bad dream that we had all awakened from on January 1st.Another great talent was taken away from us way too soon when actor Bill Paxton died at the...
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Friday 10/3/2017 -This Week's Wristwatches.
Short one this week, gang. Had a couple of very rude and very unreasonable customers to deal with by phone and e-mail this week.However, it's Friday and they are fast becoming a distant memory.Okay,...
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The Teeritz Clan's European Trip, Part 1 - Paris: "Effing Hell, All The...
PrologueAugust 20th, 2016 Paris. The City of Lights. The city that I've visited through countless movies my entire life, from "Casablanca" (1943) to "G.I. Joe - The Rise of...
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The Teeritz Clan's European Trip, Part 1 - Paris: "Effing Hell, All The...
PrologueAugust 20th, 2016 Paris. The City of Lights. The city that I've visited through countless movies my entire life, from "Casablanca" (1943) to "G.I. Joe - The Rise of...
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Friday 24/3/17 - RIP Chuck Berry, BaselWorld Watch Fair Begins & This Week's...
I didn't post last week because I had finally finished my long, long post about the first leg of our trip to Europe last year;The Teeritz Clan's European Trip, Part 1 - ParisAnd by the time I was done,...
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