LOL: for some time I had no idea what on Earth this meant. I thought it could be Lots of Laughing Lunatics or possibly Lolita, Oi, what a Lovely film! Then a friend informed me, smugly, that it actually meant Laugh Out Loud. I was baffled, honestly I was. So I made a pact to [...]
I wake up earlier than intended. Last night was a late one and I wanted a lie in today but the cold winter sunshine streaming in through the window seems to have other ideas for me. Reluctantly I roll out of bed, throw on some clothes and go and get a newspaper, passing a neighbour [...]
The World is big. Really big. Forget all these idiots who say, “it’s a small world!”it isn’t. It’s a massive world, and it has equally massive potential to astound and disgust. Not only really big and really brilliant (and bad) but also stupidly complicated. Now, considering that—at a guess—more than half of the world is [...]
Yes people, your eyes do not deceive you. I didn’t say atrocious, or awful, or ludicrous, or diabolical; and I’m on about the National Health Service—one of England’s finest attributes and source of great controversy for a great many years.
Ask yourself, how absurd would this idea sound if you stood up tomorrow in a big [...]
The Inbetweeners: a brand new quality TV comedy about teenage life in the sixth-form…And who should they pick to choose to play the young Del Boy in Rock And Chips, the prequel to much beloved English TV series Only Fools And Horses? James Buckley from that show, that’s who! Great, I was impressed! The foul [...]
I am one of those people who love to complain even when happy. In fact, you could say I look for reasons to complain about even when I am actually quite at peace with life. You could say this is true for most of the human beings on this planet. Perhaps as a species, we [...]
The knock on the door came at that ever-so crucial point in the morning—I’d just poured the milk in to my cereal (choco rice-crispies) and was awaiting that truly wondrous moment when it starts to go all chocolatey–.
On the way to the door my mood darkened considerably; behind the frosted glass I could see bright [...]
It is nice to see that something constructive is being done and that plans for providing us all with an alternative form of power are actually underway. Perhaps I am naive, but I have never been able to understand why so many of the population seem to be opposed to wind turbines being built. There [...]
I wonder if there are still any new styles of music left to be discovered. We have seen so many different forms of each genre that I now tend to believe everything has been done before.
If you think about it, there are no longer any bands or singers doing anything that is unique. This is [...]
I have always liked the idea of going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and now that I have read through the posts on this blog I want to go even more. It sounds like it is great fun and one of those things that just has to be experienced.
Anyone who is interested in Fringe [...]