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-
We love a grave. Can’t get enough. So in our spare time Mel & I go and visit the dead. Nothing morbid, nothing bizarre, perverse or even more than a touch ‘strange’ but we love a good cemetery. We eventually did Highgate, possibly the world’s most famous burial ground, we’ve done Recoletta in Buenos Aries, – Read More-
We have a little flat roof. Over the extension we built onto our kitchen 12 years ago. The guys who built it have long since vanished into that netherworld ether of shitty craftsmen who you never want again to darken your doorstep. Or lighten it, re-shape it or fill the missing chips. Nor anything else – Read More-
That’s it then. The football season’s over so this must be the final table. Finished early this year due to… because… errrrr… as the new stadium at Tottenham is delayed because the interior designers can’t decide on the final colour scheme in the toilets. So the Premier League said ‘play today and then its over’. – Read More-
We need the rain. We need water. The reservoirs are depleted, the rivers running dry, the crops desiccating and my lawn looks like shit. But why does it have to fall on Thursday? Or Lila-day as its known round here? Though I must add that Lila really doesn’t mind the rain. Is barely aware that – Read More-