What the heck is it that makes one day so much different from the next day with regard to my trousers? I can slide into them like a svelte bunny one day and the next I need industrial lubricants to get them on. Jeez I had a couple of drinks and a takeaway but [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hi so this is a little random, but here we go…

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 [...]