They?re playing our song!
Every couple has a song which means something special to them. Maybe it’s the song that was playing when they...
Light Entertainment
Almost the Last Laugh
Three British expats share a near-death experience on a trip to Kuala Lumpur… A few years ago I was hosting...
He Who Laughs Last
In the winter of 1990, I was working in real estate in London with my business partner, Steve Collins. One...
A World of Tradition
I love traditions. Family traditions, national traditions, anything that is traditional in the true sense of the word. I guess...
Proof that Not Refusing to Save the Planet Might Not be a Bad Idea
Most people will be very surprised to learn that the world’s population of polar bears has shrunk by almost 60...
Catching a Flick
I like movies that are either funny or true, meaning I don’t generally see the point of letting precious minutes...
A Person, Another Person and a Third Person Walk into a Bar
Political correctness has become part of everyone’s lives over the last couple of decades. Everyone now needs to be very...
Nothing New
When I went to Istanbul recently, I was eager to submit to the full tourist experience and immerse myself completely...
Real Heroes
I’ve never been a fan of those works of fiction that portray super muscular, superheroes performing amazing and noble feats...
When All About You are Losing Theirs
Near the end of World War II, an American B24 bomber was shot down by the Japanese over North Borneo,...
Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Daze of Summer
The summer of 1976 was the hottest and driest in the UK since records began, with the months of June,...
OMG Skool is Soooo Yesterday!
These dayz edukashun trewly is a compleet waist of time. Don’t need English anymore cz we alwz abbreviate and every1...
Can You Talk?
My dear old granny was a spritely 97 years and 7 months old exactly when she decided she’d had enough...
Inside Story
When I was in my twenties, I spent some time in prison and I can honestly say it was one...
Two Plus Two Equals 3.9996
I like to tell people I am numerically dyslexic. When I look at a page of numbers, for example a...
Saved by the Smell
In the summer of 1984, a friend and I decided to take my beloved, but ageing Datsun 260Z, over into...
How to Make a Maltese Cross
While I was on holiday in Malta with some friends a few years ago we booked a boat trip to...
How to Make a Maltese Cross
While I was on holiday in Malta with some friends a few years ago we booked a boat trip to...
The Unfortunate Anagram
Brian Warken was never going to win a Nobel Prize. He was the sort of guy you watched whenever he...
Laugh and Death in the Slow Lane
Some friends and I in the fire service used to work part-time as coffin bearers. I guess it was because...
Sheep Two, Sheen Zero
I had been in my local pub watching the now legendary 1979 Silverstone 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix and I was...