As a Brit, I’ve never really had the opportunity to enjoy the All-American tradition of Spring Break. I have, of course, dabbled in the British equivalent of Spring Break – namely, getting smashed on the two or three days of sunshine we get a year in the UK. But Americans may soon be thinking about […]
Needless to say, there are certain luxury items which sit far outside my price bracket – quilted toilet paper, M&S Finest Ready Meals, a second pair of shoes and Rolex watches – but, fortunately, something wonderful has happened, I’ve won the lottery some clever chaps have seen the trauma suffered by paupers like me and decided […]
Though I probably shouldn’t mention this through fear of making my flat a target for no good thieves, I have a watch collection that is the envy of timepiece aficionados the world over. I have a breath taking silver Casio (they’re a pretty big deal) watch which I was lucky enough to uncover in an […]
Though the deeply factually inaccurate U-571 film clouded the issue of the role of the Enigma Machine in World War II i.e. a don’t think that the wonderfully coiffeured Jon Bon Jovi played a pivotal role in helping to win the war, there is no escaping the fact that, without the Enigma Machine, the war […]
Though I’m not proud to admit it, I’ve got a bit of beef with pandas. It stems back to a childhood zoo incident when one of the two-toned bastards pinched my Cornetto ice-cream. Normally, I would have taken it on the chin, and perhaps even begrudingly respected the panda for his gumption, but the purchase […]
To be brutally honest, the moon is a bit of a knob. It bullies our seas, hasn’t got a Maccy D’s, doesn’t have much scenery to write home about and blocks my view of the other planets which, if my understanding of the solar system is correct, are lined up in a row behind the […]