Everyone moans; “ohh, noooooo, not anOTHER!! destination wedding!!! That’s my fifth this week, thirteenth in the last month, 43rd this year so far!!! And because no-one ever wants to get married in the rain or snow, as the year progresses, the venues move from Southern Europe to the Middle East, then the Far East and – Read More-
The first thing you notice when you arrive in Ischia is the heat. And approximately 3.7 seconds later, just as you’re looking to change your t-shirt because that dry one is suddenly soaking wet, you notice the humidity. It is intense. However, as someone who has quite literally sweated all over the entire world, this – Read More-
We need to talk about Naples. The City. Ok, we checked in to our hotel at about 10.30 on Thursday night and at 2.35 the following afternoon we were on a ferry to Ischia. So our experience of this fine city is… a bit limited. And our experience can be pretty much defined by: “stayed – Read More-
So it was Huw Edwards wot dunnit. Oh no. I love Huw. He’s been my main man (and I NEVER miss the 10 o’clock BBC news, series record, alarms, warning alerts, post-its on the tv) for 20 years!!! And now this! He’s just a… he’s nothing better than… he’s a downright… hmmm… What’s he done – Read More-
This was Joey on Monday night… leaving the hospital. Where they’d just applied a few steri-strips to his head. I could’a done that. But Joey was kept waiting for 4 hours and I’d have made him wait for 5. Just because. So the local hospital got the job. And not the neatest job I’ve ever – Read More-
The current and latest (of oh so many) scandal to hit the BBC is ‘presentergate’. A nameless (so far) ‘top’ BBC presenter was paying a young man, arguably and allegedly, a ‘boy’, when the saga began, for naughty images or videos, in exchange for quite a lot of money. I won’t speculate who this ‘presenter’, – Read More-
Just before I start on the tennis (OMG, the tennis!!!!), we need to talk cricket. Specifically: The Ashes, third test at Headingly. And the foe was bested. Ok, it wasn’t ‘comfortable’. When Ben Stokes left the pitch English heads dropped. Mine included. Which wasn’t great because I was driving when it happened. Perhaps cars sold – Read More-
Whilst we’re waiting for the new football season to start, this weekend represents some kind of pinnacle of ‘other sports’ stuff. As England enter the 4th day of the 3rd Ashes test with every chance to win it but, obviously, an equally ‘every chance’ of losing it. Should the former happen, ‘THE SERIES IS ALIVE!!!’, – Read More-
America’s announcement yesterday to send cluster bombs to Ukraine to help ‘our side’ against the Russians has been met with many different opinions and posed many moral and political questions. Firstly, and perhaps most importantly; are cluster bombs any less vile, evil, nasty, indiscriminate, vicious and illegal (in most countries) if you refer to them – Read More-
I’m a Lundunner. Not one oo speaks like’a, ya’know, one’a dem kids wots needin Kier Starmer’s speech and locution bollox, none-a-dat-shit fer me, but a real Lundunner wot don’t never stop for pedestrian signals. I’d rather get run over dodging buses, trucks and speeding police cars than wait for a little green man to tell – Read More-