Suburban cowboy

Suburban cowboy

2025 dishes up new headache

Suburban Cowboy feels that 2025 will make us long for 2024 ... already.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Trumpeting a year of insanity

Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt and manages to find someone crazier than him to be his running mate.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Going cold on idea of fridge update

The numbers for takeaway places are buried beneath magnets from plumbers, tree loppers and politicians, plus of course calendars from real estate agents, some of which are so old the year only has three digits (the calendars I mean, not the agents).

Suburban cowboy

All aboard for next review

We have stacks of on-line reviews, movie reviews, restaurant reviews – and we are even constantly asked to do reviews ourselves.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Breaking up popular opinions

Breaking was very popular back in the 1980s, possibly due to the amount of additives contained in food in those days.

Suburban cowboy

Olympics cause ‘expert’ outbreak

One of the ways we share in this experience is by indulging in Instantaneous Expert Syndrome (IES).

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Election bombardment under way

An election campaign is a great time to be a voter, because for a few short months – and only for those months – politicians of every stripe care about your opinion.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Protesting about ‘important’ things

In the interests of full disclosure I should point out that my own student days were not free of protest.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Tis’ the season of CPD

The thing is, it is CPD season so I am doing a lot of presentations, all around the place. These travels are good though – I get to meet the profession and indeed have new experiences and learn new things.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Pulling a Swiftie during Febfast

I just wasn’t really prepared for how much of our lives would be consumed by the concert.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Christmas sushi line stress is over

Yes, fatefully, Christmas brings together City Dwellers and those who live in the suburbs during the day; this is a bad idea.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

The sum of year 2023 equals a lot

So let’s take a look back in befuddlement at the year that was, and hopefully won’t be again.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Stealth required for car purchase

What I really need when car shopping is one of those camouflage suits the aliens in the Predator movies have.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Patient loses patience with procedures

So my doctor has gone through his list and decided there are a number of unpleasant tests I had to endure before we part company.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

Mordor request out of scope for ChatGPT

The battle for Mordor thwarted by ChatGPT.

Shane Budden

Suburban cowboy

A trivial reason for going to law school

Back before the development of the internet, smartphones, and the practice of combining them to cheat at trivia nights, I was a useful person to have on your trivia team.

Shane Budden