Kate Bush is going to perform live for the fist time this century. Wow. Brilliant. 15 nights at the Hammersmith Apollo in August. Fab. Tickets will be like gold dust. Jest to hear her sing (??) Wuthering Heights again; amazing. Then she could do… errrr… hmmm… well, one of her other songs. Numbers. Tunes. Dances. – Read More-
When flight MH370 went missing I learned that 270 Chinese people had disappeared along with it. They’re still missing. And although there’s certainly plenty more Chinese left in the world, particularly in China… doh… this is not only a general tragedy but a deep personal one for me. Because as a student of Tai Chi – Read More-
George Osborne has presented his new budget. And it a brilliant one if you’re an old, grey, well-off saver with loads of money, who doesn’t smoke and really hates pot-holes in the road. In other words, a budget for old Tories. And cyclists. A grey budget. Which is odd for a man who is rather – Read More-
At last. A ‘test’ that we can believe. A real one performed by real scientists (Louisiana? real??) providing incontrovertible results. Meaning ‘ones that we want to hear’. Chocolate is good for you. But really good. Makes you live longer, stay healthier, enlarges your sexual organs, keeps you slim, fit, lowers blood pressure, raises… whatever’s good – Read More-
The question that everyone really wants the answer to, the one which spawns a fucking industry of testing, research, trials, drugs, medical papers and general quasi-scientific statistical bollocks is ‘so when will I die?’ Its a fear we realise as soon as we’re old enough to actually comprehend the finality and futility of our pathetic – Read More-
I’d like to sum up these last 8 days of football with one word: FFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!! (said in a protracted scream) Though on careful review of the circumstances, and the manner of our not 1, not 2 but 3 defeats, and adding in the quality of the teams we were playing, making allowances for the ambient – Read More-
You know the situation; the ref gives a decision, maybe a foul that was dubious, maybe a penalty that’s controversial, maybe a yellow card that really could have been red. But his decision is made. And generally it is final. But into his face step the entire offended team, sometimes both teams, always Chelsea, and – Read More-
‘Experts’ are those same bastard dorks who tell us to drink wine one minute and that you’ll die from seven different cancers if you do in the next minute; the ones who advocate no sugar, then heaps of sugar, then no proteins, followed by ‘proteins are the food of life’. You know, the ever-changing merry-go-round – Read More-
Barcelona is moving. All of it. To Chelmsford. Ok, I read that wrongly. Barcelona football club are rebuilding their stadium, the Camp Nou. Which loosely translates from the ancient Catalan dialect as ‘you’re very likely going to lose here’. Already the largest football-only stadium in the world, they want it bigger, better, nicer, more Barcelona-ish. – Read More-
Interesting experience the other night. I went to see ‘Warhorse’. Oh, I hear you enquire, the play? Or the movie?? Well that’s an interesting question… what did I see… I saw the plovie. Or the plilm. Maybe the Flay. The play was on at the National and they had a live link to various cinemas – Read More-