I'm old enough to remember when it did pay for the latter, if you went 4x or more per week...

There IS a vaccine for Mpox, though, right? Right??

'The sale of alcohol is PROHIBITED!'

Just heard someone on the radio news, whom I am sure I last met when we were both contestants in the Reach For The Top schools TV quiz competition in 1996...

Damn right too! Obviously there will be exceptions for violent psychopaths, they are a minority. Most of us are no threat to anyone but ourselves, and productive work can itself be a life-saver.

Sorry you did not get to actually run it! But as you say, that may not be the main point, the journey is the destination...

Sighs in child-of-1980s-UK...

Got some new NAD banknotes today (just 20s, lol). The new notes seem pretty, and a lot more durable than the earlier printings!

Oh, I thought Inspector Clouseau was on the case!

👏👏👏👏👏

My nephew invited my wife and I to play soccer on Sunday. We're going to see if Hugh 'Fiiiiiiiish' Ellis still has his defensive skills! (Excuse me while I reveal my age! 😂)

I remember I was once asked by a doc to get a 'digital prostate exam'. I was like, 'digital! They can do anything with computers these days!' That's not the meaning of 'digital' they were thinking of! 😂 Gentlemen, the alternative is untreated prostate cancer, so get it done!

Happy birthday to my one and only!

One pleasure I discovered late in life, is getting one's nails done! Much of the other spa/'self care' stuff can miss me. But manicures are the thing!

Nothing like a dark, cold, rainy day to cure one's depression!🌧️☔😊😍

We've imported administrative systems from Germany, South Africa and the UK (among others) that don't work for our situation at all. Instead of ensuring 'oversight', they ensure nothing gets done. We need to radically simplify.

My first thought was these boys should be arrested and/or have the whiteness beat out of them! But my considered opinion is the school should be held to account! Education is not just reading and arithmetic, it's learning how to be a good citizen or at least not an asshole!

I'm thinking a temporary closure of the school by government, or it's degregistration as an exam centre, may serve to concentrate the minds of the management on the atmosphere they have created!

I'm thinking a temporary closure of the school by government, or it's degregistration as an exam centre, may serve to concentrate the minds of the management on the atmosphere they have created!

So... I'm 'leaving' Twitter. X, whatever. This place has gotten toxic. I'll be keeping a 'shell' account for academic research purposes. But of you want to find out how I'm doing, follow @ellis.hugh on Insta or Dr Hugh Ellis-Mwiya on TikTok!