Articles...
Oct 14 2008
“Good heavens,” I thought to myself, “I can barely remember where I was yesterday.”...
Oct 8 2008
I AM beginning to feel my life is being swamped by more lists than you find in a Nick Hornby novel – so many, in fact, that I’m soon going to have to write another list to remember them all....
Sep 24 2008
I KNOW he died nearly 60 years before I was born, and that I have never been to Vienna, but I’m pretty sure that Gustav Klimt has painted my mouth....
Sep 17 2008
WITH the impending end of the world due to take place last Wednesday, I decided to draw up a list of everything I wanted to do....
Sep 16 2008
"YOUR laughter does not deafen me,” I said, in a peevish tone, as my latest joke seemed to lose its bearings in the humid air humming around my friend and colleague, who was sitting in the desk opposite mine, watching a skin form over the tea cooling in his stained mug. ...
Sep 15 2008
WITH time not dispelling the ever- growing worldwide interest in the sinking of the White Star Line’s RMS Titanic, it is reassuring to know that Liverpool is already planning to commemorate the centenary of the tragic loss of this superliner, which was owned and registered in the city....
Sep 10 2008
FILLING in an internet survey is the modern equivalent of rubbing Hammerite into your suit of armour and pointing a trusty steed in the direction of a faraway land....
Aug 20 2008
DAMN those interfering scientists. First they announce they’ve found the cure for bad hair days, meaning the loss of the universal excuse for looking like you’ve been forced to crawl buttocks-first though a hydrangea, when the real reason for your appearance is that you didn’t dare use your straighteners in case you accidentally left them on all day – again....
Aug 6 2008
A FRIEND of mine wants an Irish red setter, but as she has long, auburn hair and brown eyes she is worried about conforming to the old adage about people looking like their dogs....
Jul 30 2008
THERE’S an invisible piece of elastic that’s attached to all of us and no matter how far we stray it will pull us back to our origins....