For the last few years, I have been fortunate to have been involved, at least loosely, with the refurbishment of some of the most extravagant homes in London.
When I say involved, I mean right near the bottom of the food chain as the supplier of electrical labour to one of my clients who had either the good sense, or good fortune, to move into this market when every other sector of the economy was spectacularly collapsing into oblivion.
If ...
There is an old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity and if this is the case, the folk of my former home town should be grateful for the efforts of fraudster, Conservative MP, Maria Miller, for getting the town of Basingstoke on the national news.
Miller: Crook
To many people, the news of an MP stealing tax payers money is not nearly as important as Bruce Forsyth retiring from Strictly, but all the same, it is big news ...
I was having an email conversation with a friend the other day where I said that a school reunion had little meaning to me as I was completely indifferent to five years of my life in an education system that for one reason or another, I didn't respond to.
His argument was that our schooling was what shaped us to being what we are now and that we all seem to be doing okay now, so it couldn't have been that bad. My argument is that I learnt to ...
I nearly had to laugh yesterday when I read about the case of Colin Farmer, a partially sighted man, recovering from a stroke who was taking a stroll to the pub for a pint.
You see, it turns out that Mr Farmer, 63, was carrying out the offence of using a white stick that somehow (please don’t ask me how) looked like a samurai sword.
So what did Mr Farmer get for this dangerous act? Why he got the taste of a policeman’s taser of ...
When I go out to bat when I am playing cricket, something strange happens to me.
I can hear my own footsteps and literally feel the adrenalin going through my veins as my inner demons begin attacking my confidence from all directions.
As I take my position at the crease, it is as though the world has stopped to watch me fail; even the birds seem to stop singing.
As the bowler runs in, I am almost shaking with fear, not a fear of getting ...
