Author Archives: John Mellis

Good Morning my Directors Of The Bored, I hope you had a fabulous weekend. I tend not to write on the weekends, unless utterly compelled to, but the flip side of that is that come Monday, I’m weighed down under the heft of three days worth of blog material, which means I can utterly GUARANTEEContinue reading “Monday 8th June #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Happy Friday my Directors Of The Bored, Today marks 21 years since I won the lottery and married the most beautiful girl in the world and my best friend. In some States, that’s illegal, but Utah’s never really been all that bothered about numbers. In fact they mostly encourage you to take on a few.Continue reading “Friday 5th June #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Hello my Directors Of The Bored, How are you? Have you been in the garden of every friend within a five mile radius? No more than 8 of you at a time? All 2 metres apart? No sharing of picnic food? What now then? Golf? Tennis? Outdoor swimming? They’re all now permitted. Even allowing, IContinue reading “Thursday 4th June #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Good Morning my Directors Of The Bored, After a brief departure from our standard blog yesterday, I’ve decided to return to the reason this blog was founded in the first place – to make you laugh when you thought you couldn’t because some aspect of this pandemic had made you feel that way. Our goalContinue reading “Wednesday 3rd June #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Hey. I was torn whether to write today or not. I know there’s a social media blackout today, and I wanted to support that, but I also know right back at the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak I made a pledge to you that I’d be here every day until we got through the otherContinue reading “Tuesday 2nd June #BlackLivesMatter”

Morning! We’re into Phase One of easing Lockdown, but not taking any chances Doug and Bob got fired into space to socially distance themselves as far away as possible at the weekend. They’re staying there for between 1 and 4 months, (NASA hasn’t made up its mind yet) and will no doubt get all theContinue reading “Monday June 1st #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Good Morning, my Directors Of The Bored, Today is the first in Scotland where Lockdown officially eases as we enter Phase One of that process. May we only ever look backwards at this as a distant memory – the day things began to irreversibly improve. You can now officially meet another household outside in aContinue reading “Friday May 29th #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Greetings Directors Of The Bored, How goes it? Well, I hope. And better than the guy I’m going to tell you about first today. This little item doesn’t really fit into anything we do here on the blog, BUT, it does give a stunningly accurate reflection of everyday life in small, rural, Scottish communities. InContinue reading “Thursday May 28th #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Good Morning Directors Of The Bored! You’re in the right place if you need a laugh today, or any day. I’m here until we’re through the other side of Coronavirus. I don’t know when that’ll be exactly, but when it feels normal again, and you don’t need me. Loads of good stuff coming up, afterContinue reading “Wednesday May 27th #LaughterSpreadsFaster”

Directors Of The Bored, Good Morning. I hope you had a good Bank Holiday Weekend, and are relaxed, refreshed and raring to go and get a fresh pair of jammies to change into, ready for another week! There are some up-sides to being locked away at home. I decided not to blog on the weekendContinue reading “Tuesday May 26th #LaughterSpreadsFaster”