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 [...]

It’s very easy to believe things. A good copy-writer will be able to take a series of what are actually very mundane facts, and turn them in to compelling reading that has you hooked on every word and needing more. And energy-saving is no stranger to this practice of sexing things up. I forget how [...]

My grandparents, like many, hate change. Change is their enemy. I don’t blame them, I can be a stickler for change myself, and I grew up in this wild information sending age. What must it have been like for them?! It must have been frightening discovering that things such as ‘mouses’ can, without any wires [...]

When I came across this page I was so pleased to hear of someone taking climate change seriously in the area of business. It is so enormously important to us all and there still seems to be too little being done about it a lot of the time.
The ‘Eniscope’ is a brilliant idea for anyone [...]

I hated semolina at school. There’s just something wrong about the way it moves—it moves even when it’s not moving! This one particular malevolent dinner-lady used to force me to eat every single mouthful; for that reason I switched off Dinnerladies as soon as it came on TV. But then, one day when I was [...]

I have just come across a really interesting forum on cult television programmes called ‘Playback’. But the thing that really made my day was to see someone mention ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’! You hardly ever hear this show talked about anymore. Even a lot of websites that are dedicated to cult TV shows seem to completely [...]