It was an interesting unfolding of events: a man who had shot and killed his girlfriend’s boyfriend and then shot a police officer in the face goes on the run threatening to shoot members of the public and then states that he won’t stop shooting until he’s dead, is finally tracked down and dies maybe at his own hands, maybe because he was suffering from some form of convulsions brought about by the taser that the police had used on Read more »

I am now nursing a very bruised hip and it’s all for the sake of cool.

Here is my story–

Walking through London Victoria’s sizeable train station the other week, I was feeling quite depressed. I was wearing my suit, was carrying my brief-case, and was wondering if this was the best it would ever get (did I mention I sell Caravan insurance part time?). Then I spotted them: a bunch (if that’s the correct word for a gang Read more »

I remember living in a foreign country well. That’s not to say that I enjoyed every moment of it, or that “well”was the word that first came out of my mouth when someone asked “how you are getting on with the language, then?”(usually it was “crap, thanks”), but that I remember The Struggle vividly. One of the main annoying things about The Struggle was trying to decipher the newspapers – without a decent (or even moderate) grasp of the language Read more »

Hi so this is a little random, but here we go…
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After I’d read the comedy book skiing in italy and how much fun it is, even when you fall down repeatedly, I read the book Yes Man by Danny Wallace. My conclusion was that Yes, saying Yes is a very good idea. But it’s not a great idea. All it does (like in the book) is get you in to trouble. Yes, there are some wicked adventures to be had by saying Yes to everything, but let me tell you Read more »

Growing up, I remember there being an awful lot of myths. There were myths for everything no matter what. To name but a few there was the myth about the legendary bright green bum bag being the holy grail of bum bags, the one about all the men and women employed especially to bend bananas, the myth that a swan could break your arm with its wing, and the myth that if the wind changed while you were mucking about, Read more »