Kevin's Corner
My contribution to the Croud office end-of-week round-up was first named Kevin's Corner in 2019.
I began to script it once it was being delivered to camera from home, during the COVID-19 lockdowns. It was fun for me, and it worked well as a way we could bring everyone together at least once a week. That was important for people who might have been feeling isolated.
After we returned to the office, Kevin's Corner was still a regular item until mid-2023. I'm proud that when we moved into our office on Curtain Road, one of the meeting rooms was named Kevin's Corner.
Some are better than others.
Weeds
June 29, 2023 • Kevin Joyner
I went for a run this morning which gave me the opportunity to admire the new paving that’s been laid on Greenford Avenue. That’s if you go out the front door, turn right and up the hill to the mai...
Sextant Bamboo Groudhog Day
Feb. 2, 2023 • Kevin Joyner
I have three points to cover this week. This isn’t funny, I just want to cover a few points in case any of it’s useful material. First point, in most pirate films, you see someone on a ship look...
The Shame
Dec. 8, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
I live with two cats. They came with my wife as a package, about 14 years ago. In the last few months they’ve really begun to show their age. Without wanting to go into too much detail, I’ll just s...
Catseye
Sept. 22, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
At 9:26 this morning I dried the seat of my trousers in a train station toilet. It was a unisex one. It’s a weird thing to bend over and present your bum to a hand dryer. I had to reach behind me a...
Sentience
June 23, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
I wasn’t here last week because I was preparing to go hiking. So sorry this is a week out of date but I’m going to talk about some news from the Saturday before last. An engineer from Google publis...
Bird Spikes
June 9, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
I prefer the radio in the kitchen in the morning, but when my wife gets there first we have the TV on. TV breakfast programmes are pretty lightweight in my view, especially the London regional one,...
Dangerous Dogs
May 12, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
I’ve noticed something. It’s not this, but I’ll just start by saying, my children are inconvenient. Because of my children I often leave the house at dawn - to avoid them. Lately I’ve been running...
Hamster watching
April 28, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
Before I worked at Croud, I worked at the BBC. I would have started my job there about nine years ago. The building I worked in had a big area of one floor dedicated to the Future. Actually, the di...
The Corner in the Corner
April 21, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
Right, another Kevin’s Corner. I don’t know. A weird one? A weird one, or a normal one? Not weird, abstract. It’s got to be funny. Funny weird not clever weird. Always, always the cleverer it is ...
The Excommunication of Caterpillars
April 7, 2022 • Kevin Joyner
I returned to work on Tuesday from a long weekend spent with friends on the Isle of Wight. One of our evening activities was a quiz board game. Thanks to one question that came up, I’ve learned tha...