About

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Born 30 July 1909, Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British Naval Historian and the creator of many theories about administration and the aptly named Parkinson’s Law in 1957, which states (in a nutshell) that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. This blog is named in honour of Cyril and his work, and the simple fact that the author (the guy over there ->) is perpetually late (except in matters of public transport and the cinema, to which he needs to be there early for fear of having kittens).

Jon Clay

Constant ponderer, sometime thinker, food nerd and lover of spoons of all sorts, Jon is the ever so slightly unhinged mind behind Cyril Parkinson’s Perpetually Late. Australian born and raised with more education than you’d think with what he says and does, he loves to talk about all sorts of things and is more than happy to test crackpot theories on himself, much to the humour of those around him. One of these days he promises he will figure out how to not be so bad with time management, preferably before he is late to his own funeral.

If you want Jon to get anything done, please provide him with a tight deadline. That’s where the magic happens.