LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

Here... I just write about the most random stuff


Blimey, our dogs live better lives than we do, don’t they

1 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

There’s a new ‘dog-friendly’ cocktail bar in London, called After Bark, and when I say ‘dog-friendly’, I mean they literally create cocktails for dogs. Located in London's Hackney Wick area, After Bark was designed by Barkney Wick, a community centr...

Cheer me up

29 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

I'm here but I really wish I wasn't. I wish I was 1,000 miles away. In a different country. Surrounded by different people, doing different things. But things happen, and so instead of being where I thought I would be, I'm having a beer at a pub nea...

Wish me luck

27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Around two and a half months ago I had a pretty serious accident I'm still recovering from. Actually, that's incorrect. What I mean is, I broke some bones and they've healed, but there's more things I'm gonna have to do to get back in shape. Long s...

When it comes to content, quality is art, quantity is science

27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Internet users' limited attention span provides a great opportunity. If whatever you do is only valued for about 22 seconds before people get tired and move on, it means two things. First, if you make a mistake, it won't matter anymore after 22 sec...

I did something I swore I'd never do again

27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

I just agreed to do something I swore I'd never do again. I write for a living, and I get paid a decent salary, but getting to this point was tough. It meant writing hours and hours every day, year on year, while working another job because I wasn't...

Why I listen to the same song every day, all day

26 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I never listen to playlists or the radio when I'm working. I usually do one of three things. I either put an episode of Top Gear or the Grand Tour on, or I go on YouTube and watch crypto videos, or videos about watches, or technology, or podcasts, o...

New day, new challenge - and this one's tough

26 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Now, ya see, the whole point of a challenge is it forces you to up the ante. Or raise the bar. Use whatever equivalent expression you like. A few months ago, I said I'd write one story every day for the next 365 days. I was determined to see it th...

If you're not on Wikipedia, then you probably don't need a blue checkmark

16 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Over the last few weeks my Instagram feed has become a fruit salad of blue checkmarks. And the same thing is happening on Twitter and Facebook. Everyone I know and their dog is now verified. Bob the Builder is verified. John Doe is verified. As is J...

Swatch created a monster that needs feeding

10 Sep 2023 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

An Italian actor you've probably never heard of recently made headlines, in Italy, after branding Adam Driver's performance in Michael Mann's Ferrari as 'cultural appropriation'. "Why aren't they casting an Italian actor to play an Italian charac...

Batumi is trying hard to be the new Dubai - Is it working?

10 Aug 2023 4 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Batumi is a city you’ve probably never heard of. It’s in Georgia, as in the country not the state, and it’s on the Black Sea. Visually, it wants to be like Dubai. The bit of the city that people might reasonably call downtown is a festival of skysc...