I deleted my Gables account but I managed to download it all first. Some of them were great. Especially the ones by my kids. So I decided to put them here instead!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 2 Feb 2014
Poker night last night. You’d think my psychology expertise would come in useful, but no… 🙂
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 17 Mar 2014
If you want proof that we are a mind/body system, ask a very difficult question to someone walking with you. See how they STOP to think.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 30 Apr 2014
The strange connections you make on the tube ride in in the morning…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Mar 2015
Road trip to Manchester with my 10 year old daughter to see Halestorm. Her first heavy metal concert! 🙂
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 19 Mar 2015
Met 2 “coaches” yesterday. One was the problem and one was the answer, but both call themselves “coach”! Regulations? I think so…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 26 Jun 2015
Someone asked me if I knew where they could get a nice cheap Apple laptop. I said, have you tried Starbucks?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 31 Jul 2015
I love standing around for 35 minutes in 90 degree heat for a 20 second ride…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 5 Aug 2015Imagine hell with high humidity. That’s Florida right now!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 15 Aug 2015
I don’t like tattoos, I said. But you have a big one, he replied. Let me qualify that statement then: I don’t like other people’s tattoos…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 11 Sep 2015
Starbucks is my office. This means that I have offices all over the world!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Sep 2015
With all the talk in the news in the UK about politics and how Left/Right they are, I thought it was time for a more non-partisan approach.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 23 Sep 2015
I’ve just used the wallet app on my iWatch to pay for my Starbucks for the first time. How many things wrong with that sentence? 😀
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 23 Sep 2015When you come to a fork in the road, take it – Yogi Berra
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 26 Sep 2015
If I did 10km this afternoon through the fields and countryside, what do you think my springer spaniel did? 30?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 11 Oct 2015
At the end of the game, the king and the pawn end up in the same box…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 28 Oct 2015Reality is just a unicorn-ride away…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 29 Oct 2015
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 1 Nov 2015
When I see a Costa/McDonald’s motorway service station I always feel it’s the poor cousin of a Starbucks/Waitrose services!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 11 Nov 2015
I’m quite glad it’s nearly that time of year. I desperately need some new socks!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 13 Nov 2015
Could SBUX claim religious status as its “followers” visit their “chapel” daily for a fix & get massive well-being from their offering? #god
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 27 Nov 2015
I gave away a signed copy of my book yesterday. Only the second one ever 🙂
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 9 Dec 2015
I wonder: should there be an ITIL-equivalent for #Coaching & #Mentoring in order to ensure a lowest standard of delivery? #ThinkingQuotient
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 21 Dec 2015
My 11yo daughter in Camden: dad, check out the Harry Potter theme there. Me: that’s not Harry Potter. It’s John Lennon!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 24 Dec 2015
My 7yo boy got Thor’s Hammer for Xmas. Pity he wasn’t worthy and couldn’t pick it up! Maybe by the end of the day…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 28 Dec 2015
Just played the Game of Life with the wife and kids. I came romping home in last place. I hope that’s how it works out in real life too…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 1 Jan 2016
I’ve got some big ideas for 2016. The main one is “win the lottery” and then the others will pretty much take care of themselves. Awesome!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Jan 2016
Far too many people blowing things up for ridiculous ideologies. It’s about time humanity evolved beyond superstition.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Jan 2016
You know you’ve made up a brand new word when you Google the definition and it doesn’t exist #Winning #Ontophronology 🙂
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Jan 2016
“Ontophronology” – how we think about how we think… I wonder if it will catch on?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 29 Jan 2016
My daughter met Halestorm tonight and got to hug Arejay Hale cos of me.#bestdadever
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 30 Jan 2016
What does idiosyncrasy mean dad? If I tell you, you won’t remember. You’ll have to Google it son. You’re my Google dad…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 9 Feb 2016
New Starbucks opens near me tomorrow. It had better be good if it’s going to be my new office! I’ll be there at 7:30 for opening time 🙂
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 10 Feb 2016
Good news: the new Starbucks has passed the test. My new office is only 5 minutes from my house now!! #winning
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 27 Feb 2016
Although we need the Word to keep things known in the common, people still treat specialists as if their nonsense were a wisdom – Heraclitus
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 27 Feb 2016
The whole point of Youtube is Christopher Hitchens videos…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 28 Feb 2016
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong! HL Mencken
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 4 Mar 2016
The autobiography of a Failure: I could have been so much more, but I just kept getting in my own way!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 1 Apr 2016
Me: I don’t like tattoos. Daughter: But you have a big one? Me: I mean I don’t like other people’s tattoos…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 4 Apr 2016
Told the boy we will upload our brains to a Chip and live forever. He said then we wouldn’t have to learn anything as we’d be on the Net!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 20 Apr 2016
I want to see Trump win and a Brexit. I want to see the world shaken up. We need radical thinking and the status quo won’t do it!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 21 Apr 2016
Prince is dead
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 22 Apr 2016
Today I will be listening to Prince only, and as I have everything he’s ever done, it might take more days…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 23 May 2016
Zoe Saldana is living proof racism is illogical. She looks beautiful when blue, black, brown or green!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 25 May 2016
Excellent meeting at @covcampus yesterday. Looking forward to beginning my PhD with Coventry University…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 12 Jun 2016
Someone said there’s a football tournament on… who knew!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 13 Jun 2016
Me: Kids, look at that fat unicorn over there.
Kids: That’s not a fat unicorn dad: it’s a rhinoceros!!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 17 Jun 2016
Kimbo Slice died this month. Why is it not bigger news? Too niche? Shame…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 23 Jun 2016
I think we’ll remain. Don’t you?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 27 Jun 2016
“Integrity’s a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They’re pure hyena.” ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 27 Jun 2016
Wow… England are out of Europe twice in one week!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 1 Jul 2016
Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it! Easy to say if you don’t have kids…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 5 Jul 2016
Road signs on motorways now tell us to ignore satnavs due to road changes. Who would have thought that 20 yrs ago?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 8 Jul 2016
Just met a guy and we talked about Mark Twain. I said “Samuel Clemens” so he asked me if I knew what “Mark Twain” actually means. Yes I do..
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 9 Jul 2016
Just copied Fletch & Fletch Lives to my iPhone for my holiday. All I know is that Fletch Lives Matters…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 13 Jul 2016
“The mistakes we regret are not errors of commission, but errors of omission.”
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 13 Jul 2016
Procrastination doesn’t mean lazy: it means waiting for the right time!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 23 Jul 2016
Taking my 12yr old daughter SCUBA diving for the first time. I’m PADI qualified already so it should be fun!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 5 Aug 2016
Me: I don’t care who likes me. It only matters that you like me. Kids: We don’t like you. (They have my sense of humour…)
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 27 Jul 2016
Me: Do you remember what SCUBA stands for Abi?
Her: I don’t know but the D is for Diving…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 2 Aug 2016
Someone asked me where they could get a nice cheap Apple laptop. I said: have you tried Starbucks?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 8 Aug 2016
My daughter comes into my office and says “What the heck are you listening to?” to which I reply: Carmen, by Bizet. Not quite her taste then
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 8 Aug 2016
It’s the shocking questions that cause them to think, not the platitudes.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 20 Aug 2016
Gabriel: dad, how do you become one with the universe? (He’s 8!!)
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 23 Aug 2016
I know it’s supposed to be “wrong”, but I love sitting in the window of Starbucks, looking out onto Nottingham City centre & judging people.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 25 Aug 2016
The 26 year olds in the queue for this concert couldn’t name The Doors lead singer on my shirt. I feel old
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 2 Sep 2016
My PhD topic: An Epistemic Look At Measuring Thinking Complexity And Behaviour In A Work Context – starting this month! @covcampus
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 3 Sep 2016
Gabriel: wouldn’t it be weird if all our lives was one big giant’s dream and it was only an hour of the giant’s sleep…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 4 Sep 2016
When commentating on a sport on TV, should the person be able to speak English correctly? I can’t listen to Ian Wright any more!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 7 Sep 2016If you don’t turn it on, it’s not broken!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 10 Sep 2016Sandy, you can’t just walk out of a drive-in…!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 13 Sep 2016
My final week of dithering around before my course starts @covcampus Can’t wait…!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Sep 2016
I like Sainsbury’s. It keeps all the riffraff out of Waitrose!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Sep 2016
Abi: I need a drink. It’s too hot. I need a cold bed fridge…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 16 Sep 2016
There are two words in this world that will open any door for you? Push & Pull …
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 20 Sep 2016
Introduction to my research degree today. I enjoyed it. @CU_PGRSU@covcampus
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 1 Oct 2016
My mate Paul: what was the name of the guy who invented the Faraday cage?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 2 Oct 2016
Conjugate the verb To Done: I done You done We done. My mate doesn’t know that “did” exists!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 4 Oct 2016
Sitting in a hospital waiting room. A young man has just found out his gf is expecting. He is now slumped in his chair, head hung low!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 7 Oct 2016
In Coventry centre the other day, a trilby hat blew off a disabled man’s head. People walked by. Except the thug with the neck tattoos!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 15 Oct 2016
45 today! Man do I look it, feel it, live it!!!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 17 Oct 2016
Sarah & Mishal blasting from my radio doesn’t have the same effect as the teen’s music next to me. The joys of middle age! @BBCr4today
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 17 Oct 2016
Sometimes I use words I don’t know the meaning of in order to sound more incandescent…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 22 Oct 2016
If you’re flying anywhere, remember to take the 90 quid Leatherman tool out of your hand luggage first, or it gets confiscated by the police
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 22 Oct 2016
It’s just common courtesy when flying on the smallest commercial plane in the world to shower before you get. Surely??
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 31 Oct 2016
My boy is wearing a Xmas jumper today for Hallowe’en to highlight the imminent horror for all parents!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 4 Nov 2016
Abigail: I love Jesus. When he died we get presents. When he was born, we get chocolate…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 31 Oct 2016
Bring Me The Horizon at the O2 with my 12yo rock chick daughter!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 9 Nov 2016
Gabriel: dad, did you know that Japan has made being fat illegal. So you can’t go there…!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 19 Nov 2016
Not once this morning has my wife’s PT shouted at her: COME ON FATTY, MOVE FASTER! He’s not doing it right…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 19 Nov 2016
I don’t think I could be much more manly today: just fixed a puncture in my wheelbarrow tyre!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 20 Nov 2016
I think we should bring back the “æ” character with a vengænce…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 23 Nov 2016
In a book, if a page has the words: “This page intentionally left blank”, is it?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 3 Dec 2016
In a 30 sec stretch, Gabriel came up with: Nitopia; Nitdom; Nit Central; Nit City and more, to describe his sister’s current condition! 🙂
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 13 Dec 2016
Masterchef chefs were applauded in their team event by heart, brain and other surgeons last week. They’re COOKING! They’re not saving lives.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 16 Dec 2016
A fiver for photos of my son at a disco. I don’t need photos of him: I live with him… schools can rip you off sometimes!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 30 Dec 2016
Can you tell me what the difference is between DIY I have to do and DIY I want to do? #Motivation
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 10 Jan 2017
Abi says it’s difficult to get new friends’ Instagram etc in her new school when she can’t have her phone, bcos you have to write it down!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 12 Jan 2017
1st world problems!
Gabe: dad, why didn’t you take all the raisins out [of his cereal]??
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 13 Jan 2017
In Washington State, where Bigfoot actually lives, it’s illegal to hunt Bigfoot…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 25 Jan 2017
If all Presidents and PM’s have speech writers, who is getting elected: the President or the speech writer?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 30 Jan 2017
I explain how silly racism is to my children using @zoesaldana – she is blue, green, dark and light – and simply gorgeous in ALL colours.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 12 Feb 2017
Listening to a guy teach Wing Chun and make perfect sense. Then I realised that he learned from me for 6 yrs! So he would make sense to me!!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 19 Feb 2017
Abi: if I get to grade 2 piano by Xmas, can I have horse riding lessons?
Me: OK
Abi: Hang on, I need to video you saying that..
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 24 Feb 2017
Don’t give them all the things you wish you’d had, teach them all the things you wish you’d known.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 5 Mar 2017
We can’t get one child to stop reading and the other child to start reading. Amazing how we have two such different children!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 7 Mar 2017
The only way I would accept a position in the House of Lords is if I was a Time Lord!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 8 Mar 2017
Have you noticed it’s always the unsexy politicians talking about being objectified?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 9 Mar 2017
Is it Lamentable or Lamentable?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 11 Mar 2017
Me: I have vertigo. Do you know what that is?
Abi: it’s a star sign!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 14 Mar 2017
Gabe gets on our swing. Me: you know there’s no screen on that? Gabe: I’ve got a screen all round me. It’s called the environment!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 18 Mar 2017
I’ve invented a new game for teenagers. It’s called: “How blind are you?” And it’s all about trying to find things that are under their nose
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 19 Mar 2017
Gabe said as we stood at the till: Dad, how many qualifications do you need to be a cashier? It’s easy. I’m doing that so I don’t need exams
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 22 Mar 2017
Does it matter if I walk 3m or 5m with my dog in an hour? Does my pace affect her distance in the same hour? Or does she just run around?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 24 Mar 2017
Graveyards. What’s the point? A relic of our superstitious past. We should focus on the living and rethink how and why we bury people.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 25 Mar 2017
Abigail and Gabriel bought their mum a bottle of red wine for Mother’s Day. I told her to hide it somewhere. She hid it in the fridge…!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 30 Mar 2017
Saw a beatboxer at Liverpool St Station last night. She was very good, but why do they NEVER beatbox Grieg or Chopin? Now THAT would be cool
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 4 Apr 2017
Apparently, “waffling” is not a useful skill when writing for academia!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 9 Apr 2017
Every man is in certain respects (a) like all other men, (b) like some other men, (c) like no other man – Kluckhohn and Murray
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 25 Apr 2017
Me: Abigail, if you go to Denmark with your friend, you have to see Guns N Roses live!
Abi: but won’t they be singing in Danish?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 12 May 2017
I bought a homeless man breakfast this morning in SBUX. He asked me how much a breakfast bap was after I bought it. I said I don’t know…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 18 May 2017
Chris Cornell is a shame. I was looking forward to him touring the UK.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 17 Jun 2017
If we use the Starbucks standards, I would be considered “Tall”…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 20 Jun 2017
If you want to watch a film “properly”, watch it on your iPhone with headphones. It changes the experience, even with a film you know well!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 6 Jul 2017
It’s definitely cheaper up north. The beggar in Nottingham just asked me for 40p whereas the beggars in London ask for 80p.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 8 Jul 2017
I’m sitting in SBUX with Abi going through a statistics presentation and watching the rugby on my phone using Sky Go. Awesome!!!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 8 Jul 2017
Just checked my Premium Bonds that my granddad bought me in 1971. I haven’t won a single penny in 46 years!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 26 Sep 2017
Dyson are releasing their first electric car in 2020. I bet it sucks!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 4 Oct 2017
What’s your favourite colour? Living Colour…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · 11 Oct 2017
The world is your toaster. You can choose whether you make it dark or light!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Jan 5
Be wary of the ideas you inherit. Old conventions and previous forms are often accepted without question and, once accepted, they set a boundary around creativity.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Jan 22
I wonder if it’s too early to say I think I’ve proved my hypothesis? I suspect it is…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Jan 24
I thought I’d found the answer to my hypothesis, but a quick session with my Sigma team at uni made it clear I was measuring the wrong thing. Oh well 🙂
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Apr 23
From what I understand, the new royal baby is going to be called Darren…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Apr 25
I need to stop talking to PhD students at conferences. They seem to end up going home afterwards…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Apr 25
There needs to be a PhD study on the meaning behind the word “fascinating” and what PhD students mean by it!!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · May 23
Writing a methodology when your entire PhD changes and you’re not thinking about how you would do the new experimental design is a challenge. I’m sure it will come eventually…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Jul 3
In this particular SBUX, when the Barista says “have a nice day”, he means you’d better have a nice day, or else! He has no tonality awareness, or the cadence in his voice. Interesting…
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Aug 5
Barry Chuckle has died. It’s sad news to me. To you?
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Aug 23
It doesn’t matter how much lettuce I put on a corn beef sandwich, it’s still a corn beef sandwich.
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Sep 29
I’ve just had an unsolicited phone call from a woman in London about the car accident that I had that she said wasn’t my fault. I hung up immediately. Of course it was my fault… she knows nothing!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Sep 29
My new favourite thing to do whilst driving is beep my horn at someone totally engrossed in their phone. Watch them jump! You also notice just how many people are totally engrossed in their phones whilst walking along!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Oct 20
My 14yr old daughter is going to the Teen Choice Awards tomorrow with 3 friends. I think she’s up for “Moodiest Teen” award… tough competition but I’m confident she will win!
Gables Consultancy @GablesConsult · Oct 24
How to conduct a systematic review in psychology is the workshop for today. Probably 20 months too late, but better late than never! Might make me change something I’ve already written…