Tower Of Power

• The Big Potato Sack Famine From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (450 days old)

  Hello fellow bloggers. I've been estranged from blog.co.uk a long time, and it's good to be back. It seems that I haven't had any time for blogging at all for months. And months. It's not as though I'… more

• Keep Smiling From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (648 days old)

  Hello fellow bloggers. I don't know if you've been wondering where I've been, but I hadn't forgotten you. Hope you all had a good Christmas and managed to get some nice quality time off work. I don… more

• The Shower From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (649 days old)

  I eased the door open a fraction, and reached into the blackness, my groping hand feeling for the cord. One slightly frustrated moment later, it connected with my palm, and I thankfully closed my hand… more

• I Hate IT People When I'm Tired From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (703 days old)

  Hi. I'm Jonny Hightower - I'm 34, tall, tired, and within earshot of two balding middle-aged men that are busily exchanging phrases such as "DVD writer", "10 gig!", "hard disk" and other terms which a… more

• IKEA Home, Home IKEA.... From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (703 days old)

  I'm back in Belfast, where the big talk is the new IKEA store which opened on Saturday, the largest IKEA in Europe. In anticipation of the massive crowd, five hundred staff were waiting, and the polic… more

• Planes, Brains and Automobiles From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (717 days old)

  You may or may not know (what a pointless phrase that is) that I started a new job yesterday. I know it, because I feel the tiredness. I was up at 4.15 AM to get the morning flight from Cardiff to Bel… more

• Gun, Fish, Barrel From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (736 days old)

  Browsing through some Facebook groups earlier, I came upon a group called "Petition to revoke the independence of the United States of America". The group's description is basically making fun of Amer… more

• Leaving London From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (743 days old)

  Alas, this is possibly the last time I shall catch the 18:15 from Paddington for quite some time. I’ve been looking forward to leaving my current job for the last couple of months – since my Mum died … more

• The Honesty Bar And Pizza Express From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (751 days old)

  Last night, I worked late at the office – I worked until half-past eleven at night. All the hotels around the Canary Wharf and docklands area were full, or holding out for some extraordinarily rich an… more

• Thirty Four Days From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (753 days old)

  It's just thirty four days and counting until I start my new job. Yay!! I haven't resigned properly yet, but have spoken to my manager on the phone about it. I'm going to resign on Thursday (or Wednes… more

• Tuesday 23rd October 2007 From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (760 days old)

  It’s been a funny day today – not bad at all really, and it’s had some definite highlights. It started well; when my mobile phone alarm went off to wake me up, I lay there and fed my snooze-button add… more

• At least the Bolognese was nice From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (761 days old)

  I’m tired, and in the bar at the Britannia Docklands hotel - it’s 10:21 PM, and I’ve been up since 5 AM. In that time, I’ve travelled from Wales to London Paddington, and then across London to Canary … more

• China Crisis From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (761 days old)

  This weekend, my wife showed me the back of the relatively new "Four In A Row" game that someone had recently bought our children. The game is basically a copy of the "Connect 4" children’s game that … more

• Sigh Society From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (764 days old)

  Society is broken. That's what the politicians and the news tell us. This isn't exactly what I want to hear; I have two small children, and what I want to hear is that society is improving. The fact i… more

• Three Weeks On From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (767 days old)

  Three weeks have gone since my mum passed away. I wanted to record how I felt, get it out of my system. Not many of my friends and family read this blog – I purposefully haven’t told them about it. It… more

• Pointlessness From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (768 days old)

  Picture the scene: a semi-rural Welsh railway station, with a handful of people shivering on the platform, waiting like refrigerated jellies for the sun to rise and kick-start the day – to infuse chil… more

• Ring rrriiing. It's all I want. From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (776 days old)

  For some time now, we've had cordless phones in the house. They've been very handy, bestowing the ability to continue a semi-dignified conversation while running away from noisily approaching children… more

• Thanks to Wez and GarageBand From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (782 days old)

  At my grandmother's suggestion, my friend Wez and I recorded some music last night, to play at Mum's funeral on Wednesday. Wez is a talented violin player, and mum always liked to hear the two… more

• How lucky I am to be here From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (785 days old)

  I was talking with my maternal grandmother today. I knew that for the whole of her life, my mum had suffered from a blood complaint that meant that any little cut would bleed profusely. I also knew th… more

• Passing From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (788 days old)

  It’s Tuesday 25th September, 2007, a date that I’ll always remember. I was staying in London last night – the Britannia Hotel in Docklands. I worked late at the office and then had some food and a dri… more

• Let it all out From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (789 days old)

  As some of you will know, I've been in a bit of a dilemma recently. I've been in it for some considerable time in fact, but only relatively recently has it been pushed to the front of my conscious min… more

• In Praise of WTF From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (789 days old)

  Occasionally in literature, one reads a passage that condenses a whole galaxy of meaning into a beautifully concise phrase. (To be able to write such a phrase is a mark of genius, and is something to … more

• Literarey Chav's From JonnyHightower in Tower Of Power (792 days old)

  Almost a year ago, I started work on a large IT project based in Canary Wharf. It was a time of meeting many new people, tuning in to new accents and learning to find the toilets in yet another buildi… more

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