There is a certain British way of dealing with standard late summer weather. During the first week, people have a kind of c'est la vie 'we needed the rain anyway' attitude, in the second week it is 'will it ever stop?' and by the end of the third week, frustration is boiling over as the masses sit, wipers at full tilt, in a traffic queue for a soulless indoor shopping center.
It is a bit shit really, particularly shit if you play cricket in ...
As a bit of a follow up to my recent blog about the pay scandal at the BBC, one of my greatest fans, *Cottage Colin Norton, wrote to me about the biggest female earner at the BBC, Claudia Winkleman.
Now, I have no right to comment on the talent scale of Ms Winkleman because, such is my apathy to mainstream TV, I don't really know what she does, some dancing or something of the like, I think.
What I do know now, thanks to Colin, is that she ...
Such is our race to nuclear oblivion, news comes and goes at a rate that is so fast these days it is hard to keep up. Is it just me or does the alleged BBC pay scandal already seem like it was about 10 years ago?
The so called scandal centred around women at the BBC getting paid less than men, with the Beeb taking a good pasting in the press. As you would expect, the stick they received came from media organisations seeking to destroy what ...
I bumped into a chap out on his push bike when I was walking the dog today. He was one of those cyclists who looked like he meant business, slender in build and equipped with lightweight rucksacks and waterproofed ordnance survey maps that you have to remortgage your house to purchase.
Anyway, he had ridden from Shawford near Winchester and was heading out towards Micheldever when I bumped into him, rather conveniently, outside the ...
It was nice to see Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott reach number one in the album charts this week, even though it is possibly becauses us older folk are more likely to pay for music, whilst our offspring simply nick it.
I have been a fan of Heaton's for years (over 30 years actually) partly because of his ability to stick to his roots whilst others have succumbed to money but mainly because of his witty lyrics often featuring sinister tales ...
