Pete Hindle

Every day that I’m on “the sick” is  extremely stressful. It’s very rare that I don’t need to call up some government department related to the job centre and correct them. This involves playing phone tag with uncaring, bored people in phone centres.
I just got off the phone with Atos, the private healthcare company that [...]

There’s no need for Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapon delivery system. It’s an expensive waste of time – but not because of the idiotic stupidity of mass destruction.
If North Korea can make nuclear weapons out of sticky-backed plastic, empty washing up bottles, a spare pack of SCUDs, and a giant rabbit, then isn’t it time [...]

‘You have to get well. Being ill is like being attacked, you see? Your body is like a great fortress that has been besieged by invaders. You’ve repelled them, you’ve seen them off, but you have to be good, and marshal your forces and rebuild the walls, refurbish your catapults, clean your cannons, restock your [...]

I’ve been sick all November. And when I say sick, I mean puking, wailing, bed-ridden sick, not “a little bit of a sniffle”. I even spent five days in hospital, and when I got out my friends and family noted that I was too sick to look after myself and packed me back to my [...]

RSS readers might need to click through for the video.
EDIT: I recorded this video using Photobooth and uploaded it to Vimeo, but it seems that – like every video I record with Photobooth – something went wrong with it. In fact, I have a whole litany of hate just for Photobooth, as every occasion I’ve [...]

In my teenage years, I had a big comic habit (graciously funded by my parents). It all started with the Silver Surfer double-issue where the Kree-Skrull war kicked off, on a holiday in Saffron Walden. I can’t remember the year it was, but it was before my reading speed kicked into the ludicrously high speed [...]

I’ve been having an annoying day of dealing with letting agencies, and was feeling pretty grumpy on my way home. As I idled up my street, my eye fell on an odd piece of garbage on the street:
(I’m just too prudish to have it on my front page, but you can click through for NSFW [...]

Infinite Summer is a group reading of the novel Infinite Jest. I’m slowing myself down from speeding through that book with my high reading speed, sometimes by reading other things, sometimes – as this weekend – by drinking and going to barbecues in the sun and small country pubs. This weekend truly felt like there [...]

I’ve just brought a new bag.
I should explain; I ‘m only really excited by the prospect of buying bags and notebooks. After all, anything could go into them. This means that I own a lot of notebooks (they’re cheap) and some really swanky bags. I tend to pay at least £40 for a bag and [...]

As you might know, I’ve moved house. This new house I live in has a cat, which I’m looking after tonight.
So, the first chance it gets, the cat does a runner and I’m left shaking the box of cat kibbles in the back garden and feeling like an idiot. Ten minutes go by, then twenty, [...]