We have just had an enjoyable weekend in London on what was our first attempt at an Air B&B, a process where you book someone’s home to stay in, rather than a hotel. We went with our old friends Pete and Mandy.
We set off from Basingstoke to Waterloo, where we immediately stopped for a drink in the ‘Hole in the Wall’ pub underneath the railway arches opposite the station entrance.
‘The Hole in the Wall’ is a throwback of a ...
Welcome to my new web page, I think it is great. The idea behind it is to modernise and categorise it better, so certain subjects fit into the categories at the top of the home page.
I started writing these blogs about ten years ago now with the reason being that I had to write out a complex job advert one day and I found myself struggling for coherence. Writing was one of the few things I was good at during my time in state education (I ...
When I saw the banana skin lying on the Emirates turf on Sunday afternoon, this was the first thing that came to mind as the racist accusations and social media witch hunt started.
“Did that guy really come to the ground with a premeditated ambition to chuck a banana skin at a black Arsenal player?”
I don’t know the answer to that but if he did, he deserves all that comes his way. However, there is also a chance he had just eaten ...
If I am honest, eccentrics and pub bullshitters never used to bother me. Every pub in the county I live (Hampshire) has always had one, red faced, full of shit and putting the world to rights with preposterous tales about bringing back hanging, the French being cowards and how black people are lazy.
Hampshire is a bit of an odd backwater in many places and these people who talk a load of old nonsense are generally either ignored, joked ...
I read an article the other day about a study undertaken by three professors, John Naughton, David Runciman and Richard Evans.
It was about conspiracy theories and whether they have an affect on how people make big decisions, rather than just laughing them off as a good fun read and a bit of light entertainment. As someone in the article said, surely"conspiracy theories are good because they keep nutters in pyjamas and off the streets"....
