Sometimes, I think we all obsess so much about going abroad,
we don’t bother to visit places in the UK. There are obvious climatic reasons
behind this, but I do think it is worth visiting places nearby more often.
This weekend we headed off to Rye on an AirB&B weekend. I am not very
familiar with the south east of England. Apart from Dover for ferries and
Tunbridge Wells as a kid, I have barely gone east of Brighton.
So, after it ...
It dawned on me at the weekend that last week I passed the six month mark using the Drinkaware app. This personal fad started after watching the Adrian Charles documentary 'Drinkers Like Me'.
So how have I done?
Well, I'm going to tell you, whether you like it or not.
The Stats
Since the 1st September the first to 31st March there has been a total of 212 days. Out of those days I was alcohol free on 112 of them. By rough calculati...
I was talking to my youngest son the other day and he mentioned that he has a dubious claim to fame. He works with the daughter of former Premier League and highly regarded international referee, Howard Webb.
This triggered in my memory a bizarre incident that I was involved in, in 2008. It happened when I was on my way to Warsaw to visit my friend Trevor, who was living there at the time.
When I was waiting for my flight at Luton ...
When I voted to remain in the European Union nearly three
years ago, I did it based on research. That research told me that the Leave
campaign was a blatant right-wing con job. It was, I believed, targeting fertile
ground and aiming at people who could be led on impulse.
Three years on, after a series of investigations, the Leave
campaign has been proven to have lied, cheated and broken election spending
rules. The Leave campaign said this ...
One of the chief reasons for serfs voting for Brexit has been their desire for a return to 'the good old days'.I don't know when those good old days were, but I am sure they existed. I asked my dad who is 87, and he can't remember when they were either. They must have been a long time ago.
Recently, I spoke to a chap I know (who is a Brexiteer) and he was reminiscing about cricket in the 1960's. He recalled that back then, the cricket season ...
