by George Layton | Nov 23, 2020 | Life in Laytonia
I have never been a fan of social media. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, Twitter, it has never appealed to me. With my predilection for procrastination, I need another distraction like a hole in the head. I have read enough about these addictive...
by George Layton | Nov 16, 2020 | Life in Laytonia
George: (into ‘phone): Oh, dear. I’m sorry to hear that. Listen mate, one man’s meat is another man’s poison… I was chatting to my friend of over 60–odd years and never once during our long friendship have I ever called him mate. In...
by George Layton | Nov 9, 2020 | Life in Laytonia
Week 25. A quarter way to 100 ‘Life in Laytonias’. If I include the pre-cursor to ‘Life in Laytonia’, the 7 ‘Layton on Lockdown’ articles, commissioned by the Telegraph Online back in the March of this torrid Covid year, that makes 32. Goodness me! ...
by George Layton | Nov 2, 2020 | Life in Laytonia
Hard on the heels of our perverse, spirit-lowering and depressing (for me anyway) custom of turning the clocks back, comes another ‘event’ that I dread at this gloomy time of year. I’m reluctant to own up to it. I’m aware that I’ll be a target. Accusations...