The Adventures of Dysfunctional Dan

Quarantine continues, although for me things have been closer to normal than most. The government wants children of key workers and vulnerable children to still attend school so that means I've actually still been at work for three days this week, though it's childcare rather than education at the moment. I've therefore not had to cope with a large amount of time stuck at home but with my next work day not scheduled for over three weeks I've now got that to deal with. You may have seen me discuss a bucket list on this blog over the last few months. Comedian and actor Ardal O'Hanlon (most recently seen in Death in Paradise ) had a fun idea for a sort of anti-bucket list, a list of thing that you are never  going to do. Also known as a 'fuck-it list'. For a bit of fun, here are some things that I am planning to never do. Get a tattoo I really dislike tattoos. The odd small one that has some important sentimental value is understandable but many cover the...

Life for all of us is very much up in the air at the moment and whilst I will be writing about that at some point it's nice to think about other things once in a while. Last week I turned twenty-eight and I decided it might be fun to list twenty-eight things I've learnt in those twenty-eight years. Some are silly, some are profound and some are pointless trivia. In no particular order, here we go... 1: Try to be useful I've discussed this before but for a while I've followed a concept I read about in astronaut Chris Hadfield's book. He divides every person into a +1, a 0 or a -1. You should aim to be a 0. If you go around thinking you are a +1 then everyone will hate you and you are probably really a -1. Therefore in whatever situation you find yourself in you should aim to be a 0 and not have a negative impact on the overall goal and if you do this you will likely end up being a +1. 2: Don't worry about what other people think There are always peop...

We're living in the end times, or at least that's what the media seems to want us to think. This media-induced hysteria has led to panic buying, with the local supermarkets having bare shelves where items like hand sanitiser and toilet roll should be. One employee shared how someone bought 64 rolls on one shopping trip and someone on a local Facebook groups tells the tale of how they sold a shelving unit to a man just so he had somewhere to store the 180 rolls he'd recently purchased. There's also something incredibly stupid about over-buying hand sanitiser- your best chance of not getting corona-virus is surely allowing as many people as possible to buy it! The panic over it all seems a bit odd, especially given that the only way it's affecting me is that I'll have to wait an extra six months to see No Time to Die . It's weird how something can be all over the media yet can make no difference to your life whatsoever. I have been following the advic...