28 years ago today, Melissa took me to be her lawful wedded whatever. To have and to hold, from that day forth, fifth, sixth and 28th, through sickness and health and 7 World Cups, and counting, for richer or poorer, Love Thy Neighbour. Morecombe & Wise. Til death us do part. Some sitcom of the – Read More-
Its not the magnitude of the Dutch win over the holders, Spain, last night that is amazing. Nor that Australia lost to Chile, which everyone except the most devoted or drunk (or both, as is normally the case) Aussie knew was inevitable. Not even that Brasil (note that I spell it the ‘proper’ way, like – Read More-
Tuesday night there was an ‘event’ by a contact lens company. So we went along. The lectures were kind of lecturish, the food distinctly average to dull. The crowd was, essentially rent’an’optician and the lenses in question, nothing new. There were no great freebies to be had; no ipads given away, not even writing pads, – Read More-
As ever, there’s been some truly remarkable music-on-tv of late. They had a docu-thing all about the Eagles. Early, middle, late, pre-trial, mid-split, post-litigation, apres rehab, the usual. So much that it was in 2 parts, both long and luxurious and easy on the ear. On Saturday night it was Wham night on BBC2. Ahh – Read More-
Comedy was invented by Monty Python. Everyone knows that. Before the words: ‘and now for something completely different’ were uttered, no-one had ever laughed. There had been no jokes, no funny stuff, no nuffink. Ok, comedy’s old. People want to laugh, its a lift from the mundane, from the burden, from the tedium. So the – Read More-
I’ve just realised that this could in fact be the last World Cup tournament ever played. Sorry, THE LAST WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT EVER PLAYED!!!!!!!!!!!!! So events like the tradition of washing your horses in the Eden River in Cumbria for the Appleby Horse Fair, which dates back to 1685, will have to step up to – Read More-
We’re at t-minus-four-days from the World Cup kicking off. Brazil playing Croatia in San Paulo, or ‘the tale of two Eduardos’ as I like to think of it. Both of them treacherous, two-timing, double-dealing bastards. For the ex-Goon was born and raised in Rio, then at 15 moved to Zagreb. And that’s 15 years. If – Read More-
Today is the day that Common Riding is celebrated in Hawick. Because its ‘common riding season’ in the border towns. My favourite time of year. Hmmmm. Never actually heard of it before today but its just one more fantastic reason why Europe is the coolest (and most bizarrely stupid) place in the world, and must – Read More-
Men who are hungry prefer larger women than men who have just eaten. Why? Do they want to eat them? See them as a fuller plate? Probably not but its a ‘fact’. Not necessarily a fact as we know it, but it has statistical significance. All testing needs that. And what that means is that – Read More-
Richard Dawkins is my least favourite professor of the popularisation of science, possibly of all time. Even though he’s the only one that’s ever existed. He’s an atheist, which I’m fine with, and an almost evangelical Darwinist, which is fine, and he’s not afraid to offend people with book titles like ‘The God Delusion’, which – Read More-