Archive For The “Life” Category
In an unusual flash of foresight, I have made a decision that may well save my life this Christmas. I see now that my choice of a Sony PS3 as a principle gift for my girlfriend, even with the addition of Gran Turismo 5 and FIFA 11 may leave me open to accusations of insensitivity, [...]
Choose between corruption, hypocrisy and cant – the press would have us believe that all of these are at play in our abject failure to win the right to host the next world cup. Actually, I disagree. It is a blessing for a number of reasons, not least that it spares us the ordeal of [...]
I nearly went to a funeral today but instead, got piles from sitting on a wet crash barrier on the M25 waiting for the AA. I’ve never had a Brazilian under my bonnet before but this one was very thorough and had a lovely side parting to boot. Having fiddled around for half an hour, [...]
Channel 4 commissions grown up TV shock! Once a bastion of intelligent documentary making, recent offerings have failed to engage the audience in any kind of discourse. It has even seemed at times as though the ground rules of observational documentary making were being jettisoned in favour of the kind of jeopardy obsessed nonsense served [...]
I’ve been getting calls, sometimes four or five a day, from the number 00420239011111, sometimes 001420239011111. The phone rings three times then stops, just before the answering service kicks in. Now, I make a habit of not responding to numbers I don’t recognise on my personal mobile so no harm was done, but these calls [...]
By their economics shall you know them. Are the Tories about to pull off the most dramatic economic rescue of modern times as they would have us believe, or are they taking an irresponsible and potentially catastrophic risk with the economy in order to impose their ideology on the national consciousness? The Tories have always [...]
As if I didn’t have enough diddly diddly music at my folky foray in the summer, friend X has seduced me into another banjo extravaganza. This one involves men in dungarees, Grandad shirts and bowler hats. Not so much Mumford and Sons as Mr Mainwaring on his day off from the Home Guard. Anyway, if [...]
Last week I was very wet in the bottom department. This is what happened: my bike saddle was soaking up all the rain and when I sat on it, it all squelched out, pushing much moisture into my derriere. Not in itself too tragic but then I lost my mobile and then, my exhaust fell [...]
Holidays in hell are never a pleasant experience and this one was by a distance, the worst value for money I’ve ever encountered. The problems started at 6am in Gatwick. I treated myself to the ‘Breakfast of Kings’ at the normally reliable Pret a Manger. A rock hard crusty roll smeared with the blackened remains [...]
If Heineken made cordless phones, odds are they would look like this. A veritable Rolls Royce amongst telephones, this device addresses the single most irritating feature of the cordless phones I have owned to date. It is capable of copying directory information from the Outlook directory on the PC, and propagating it around multiple handsets. [...]
