There was a debate on Woman’s Hour (a name I PERSONALLY find very offensive, biased and exclusive) about the use of the word ‘guys’ to describe or call a group of people of different genders. As in ‘hey guys (groups of men and women), you’re table’s ready now’. And they asked ‘is this appropriate?’ To – Read More-
Other than Labour devotees of Corbyn, I think ‘we’, the people of Great Britain and the realm of glorious Queen Elizabeth II, bless her bejewelled crown, are a fairly civilised bunch. We like to think we are. Understanding. Compassionate. Humane. And we pretty much, as a nation, are. Until it comes to possibly the most – Read More-
This is my door. My kitchen door. And it looks a mess. As we like it. Because upon that very door are marked the heights of virtually everyone that’s ever walked into our house. Ok, everyone below the age of 16, the older ones are represented more sparsely. The marks are named and dated. So – Read More-
As I’m short on time and long on fatigue, I’m gonna ‘recycle’. The other night I prepared a short little speech for our ‘sheva b’rucha’ evening, but never actually got to say it, due to lack of time. I didn’t actually finish it either due to (LILA) a very busy day. So I’ll ‘say’ it – Read More-
So you get married, say, on Tuesday, and during the Jewish ceremony, though anyone can do it really, long as they read hebrew and have a rabbi hanging around, 7 blessings are said to the couple. To, errrr, bless them and keep them holy, and because its nice. And then, after the wedding ‘breakfast’, the – Read More-
Mesut Ozil, the Arsenal and former Germany midfielder, is no longer going to play for his country of birth. That’ll be Germany then. He won’t play for England, nor Turkey, nor France. They wouldn’t have him in France; its enough they put up with Pogba. But Ozil, Germany, its over. The only real difference this – Read More-
‘Middle of the Road’ is an expression of mediocrity, a metaphor. It was also a really crappy band in the 70s who had a song called ‘chripy chirpy cheep-cheep’ which wasn’t, musically, so much ‘middle of the road’ as ‘right in the fucking gutter’. But now ‘middle of the road’ is where everyone seems to – Read More-
Stephen Jay Gould was a wonderful ‘populariser of science’, who unashamedly never ‘dumbed down’ his writing for the non-academic masses. And as he tended to write in paragraphs a yard long comprising maximum of 2 sentences in each, the reading was sometimes rather difficult. Speaking as an unacademic mass. But it was always worthwhile. Because – Read More-
You kind’a expect a ‘legacy’ to be a good thing. A nice thing. A thing with value, either financially beneficial or emotionally rewarding. Auntie Rita dies and leaves you £362 and 47 lottery tickets (all old, used and worthless). Ahhhhh. Uncle Jack dies and leaves you his war medals. Ahhhhh. So why does a ‘legacy’ – Read More-
So Steve & Joey were called back east. After an intense and grueling 4/5 months of working 1 or 2 evenings a month and hanging round the pool the rest of the time, New York was a’calling. And they promised to reveal the secrets of ‘the locked room’. And with it, hopefully, kind’a explain what – Read More-