Jonny Nexus

Category: Life

  • Friends Reunited

    Friends Reunited grows ever more desperate in its recent activity mails. First it told me that people Id known at school had updated their profiles. Then it started telling me about people whod gone to my school, but who Id never known because they were several years older or younger than me. Now its informing…

  • My God! It’s Full of Cakes!

    Last weekend my other half and I took the dog for a long walk down the sea front to Hove Actually (old joke: Brightonians refer to Hove as “Hove Actually” because if an inhabitant of Hove is asked if they come from Brighton, they invariably reply, “Hove, actually”) and ended up having breakfast at Heather…

  • Brighton’s New Games Shop Arrives

    A little while ago, I wrote of my discovery that a new games shop, Wargames Heaven, was opening in Brighton. Well it ending up opening last Saturday. I got there fairly late on, and managed to have a bit of a chat with Guy, the owner of the shop. I also got to take a…

  • Conversations With The Dog

    From time to time, and especially when she’s just woken up, 4Paws seems to find herself in a biting/gnawing sort of mood. Her mouth opens wide, she emits a strange high-pitched yawn/whine/cry utterly unlike any other sound she ever makes, and then quickly starts gnawing away on whatever object might be within reaching distance: her…

  • A Bus Called Bruce

    I’ve spent some of the past week perusing a book on Brighton bus names given to me by the lovely Syleth after she read my confession last week of my new hobby of bus-spotting. It’s an interesting read, but one entry in particular caught my eye. A bus called only “Bruce”. What kind of person…

  • My Ailing iPhone

    As I twittered earlier today, my iPhone appears to be intermittently failing. It doesn’t actually lock up, as the time keeps changing, but it has the following symptoms: applications either won’t open, or else open very slowly; it doesn’t make sounds, either when you phone it, or when the alarm goes off – although the…

  • Things My Dog Has Taught Me

    Lesson One: Stick Up For Yourself If you come into the living room and find that the small, but potentially vicious dog that your mummy and daddy have invited to come and stay has decided to steal your bed… …don’t get mad, get even. Steal his bed! Even if it is way too small for…

  • Living Beside The Sea

    Since moving to Brighton I’ve insisted that at some point during the summer I would go into the sea. I didn’t expect to enjoy it. After all, this is the British sea we’re talking about, notorious for being freezing cold even on one of our somewhat rare hot days. But I saw it as a…

  • If I Were A Child…

    I read an article in the Guardian the other day about the introduction of CCTV cameras that got me thinking. In March this year, Sam Goodman, 18, walked out of his politics lesson to protest against four CCTV cameras that had been installed overnight in the classroom. He was joined by all but one of…

  • A Confession…

    I generally try to avoid branding other peoples’ hobbies as weird, or geeky, or socially embarrassing. After all, if someone enjoys something, and it doesn’t harm anyone else, then why the hell shouldn’t they spend their time and money doing it? We live in a society where people are too quick to cast judgement on…