Welcome to Slightly Mordant, the flagship of the Slightly Mordant stables, (blogs not horses), I am Mik, Michael, Mike, call me what you will. I am a British man living in Seattle, USA with his beautiful American wife.
This is my personal blog, the place where I record my daily ruminations on the world around me, my views and opinions on this and that. I tend to see things in black and white and occasionally go off on what irks me, be it celebs, criminals, or dingbats who cross my path during the day. I take up to six bus trips a day so tend to come in contact with a lot of people who I like to watch and get entertained by.
I like to write, I find it cathartic a great stress relief after a hard day at the grind stone, chapping my arse for the dollar. I don’t profess to being any great literary genius, an accomplished word smith or even a talented grammar monkey, I just like to spew the words out across the screen and usually put a humorous slant on what I write about, unless I happen to be going off on something or other. I am really trying not to use the word rants, rantings or musings here (ah crap!), I tend not to write about religion or politics.
What can you the reader expect from this site? Well, assuming there is a you the reader then I hope to have you nodding your head in agreement, shaking you head in wonder and wishing you could get back the few minutes you just used reading my posts. If I can elicit a smile, then my job here is done, if I can get you snorting a beverage through your mouth and nostrils all over your monitor then I must have really been on form.
Rebecca Blood says that you should write “…for an audience of one, yourself”, but if while writing for myself I can entertain others then all the better. I have fun writing and I hope you do so, reading my tosh.
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Disclosure Policy
This is my personal blog, but from time to time I do write a few sponsored posts or have some text links. I hope these are not too annoying, irritating or overwhelming.
I do this to make the site self-sufficient, domain name and hosting fees are taken care of and I can keep abreast of all the gadgets I like to get my hands on.
Even sponsored posts are written in my usual off hand humorous way and should not break up the flow of the site. Nothing I write about which is sponsored content will be in any way a conflict of interest, all views and opinions expressed here are purely from my deranged nut.
Note, that of late I have been just dropping in the sponsored link at the end of the post and they can be glossed over if you’re not interested. The main body of the post is then in now way affected or influenced by any sponsored links. Alternatively I may use contextual links, but still, my inane craziness still shines through.
Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. That being said, I want to make it known that I only feel comfortable talking about or promoting products and services that I would likely to make use of myself. Or in the case of women’s products such as lingerie, then the wife may be interested in or use (although I’ve seen a leopard print camisole that looks kinda comfortable, and it wouldn’t be the first time!).
The content, advertising space or post may or may not be identified as paid, compensated or sponsored content.
If you have any issues, questions, suggestions or large monetary offers you can email me at
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