I’ve just come back from nursery rhyme time at our little local library. Its free, its wonderful, its packed with little kids and Lila loves it. The downside is that I have nursery rhyme ear-worms for the rest of the week. Any mention of ‘ducks swimming one day’ or ‘monkeys jumping on beds’ or ‘catching – Read More-
Great British Bake Off is back on our screens. The new series. In which a dozen hapless amateurs make food which goes wrong. Compelling viewing. Wouldn’t want to miss a limp biscuit, a cake that’s gone flat, an undercooked pie. And its true. I wouldn’t want to miss it. Any of it. I want to – Read More-
And it came to pass, that a football team from London (previous 21 London team’s visits, including Spurs,have failed to win) went to Manchester and by the grace of all that is holy, they came away with a win. Amen. Not only a win. We also got 3 points. You do when you win. Its… – Read More-
Chelsea football club is for sale. You’ll need a few bob to buy it. But you’ll need much, much, much more to sustain it. Because Chelsea, like most (but thankfully not all) ‘big’ clubs, makes massive financial losses every year. Which turned Abramovich’s initial 140 million purchase of the club (including the debts) into a – Read More-
So its a rotten, shitty, rainy, grey, nasty day. What better thing could you possibly do than drive from Manchester to London? Its in all the guide books. Just after ‘nice things to do on Tuesday evenings’ and before ‘rotten things to avoid before you die’. So to make it really interesting, they operate it – Read More-
Ok, its not really a ‘sequel’, as such, more an alternative indication that just how, as a species, we’re either doomed by genetic predisposition, or by later indoctrination. Or ‘religion’ as it is sometimes known. The Pope is visiting Ireland. Lucky Irish people. Even though since the last papal visit to the Emerald Isle, in – Read More-
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘humanity’? What are the defining characteristics that it takes to be human? Ok, we speak, we are self-conscious and we use our opposable thumbs so we can text more quickly, but there is more. There should be more. We can show compassion. We help the – Read More-
I keep reading articles about how unpredictable things are in the Emirates. Not the stadium but the actual place, which was obviously named after the stadium because its full of Arsenal fans. Just last week a British citizen, who happens to be Swedish, was arrested at Dubai airport because she had the smell of booze – Read More-
I eat anything. More importantly, I eat everything. If there’s food there, I’ll eat it. Yes, I eat my meals, yes, I have ‘snacks’ but if there’s more food there, then I start on that too. Especially nuts and chocolate. I think somewhere down my lineage there was a labrador. We don’t so much ‘eat’ – Read More-
The problem is a simple one, for poets all around, that lots of words so need to rhyme when uttered as a meaningful sound. So whilst ‘wheel’ is easy peasy aardvark is certainly not Similarly phlegm is virtually unrhymable and must be replaced with ‘snot’. And thus we come to Brexit, that nouveau little word – Read More-