I went to a funeral yesterday and as funerals go, it was a jolly nice one, where being overtly sombre was not really on the agenda. For a lot of blokes of my generation and indeed the generations above, we have it in our DNA to try to keep emotions in check at these events, wrongly seeing that blubbing is a sign of a weakness in our characters. Fortunately, yesterday, apart from having to fake an early season hay-fever attack half-way through ...
Someone asked me the other day if, as a single parent, I could relate to the McDonalds advert where a man is trying to ingratiate himself to a difficult teenage lad who is struggling to come to terms with him moving in to his house? The simple answer is no on several counts. First of all, I have no interest in McDonald's food and secondly, I wouldn't start plying it to a child who I may be potentially living with for the next ten years. I ...
My life with domestic pets has, at best, been a chequered one. I have owned lots of pets but generally ones that have the brain span of the Chelsea FC "Benitez baiters" who are soiling the name of this great sporting nation with their witless, Neanderthal like protests against the "interim manager" of their football club.
My first animal was a Guinea pig, the obligatory maiden domestic pet of a small child, it is an animal that seems to live ...
I listened to a phone in on Radio 5 live yesterday that was based around obesity and a price hike or tax on fizzy drinks to deter people from buying them. I am guessing they mean things like Coke and Fanta that are often well stashed with sugar content, but in my mind the suggested 20% increase is like pissing directly into a force 9 westerly. Every year a new crisis blows up about obesity blows up, but every year the (obesity) numbers seem to ...
Aaaah…Valentine’s Day, an occasion for secretive cards to someone you admire, or perhaps a single, humble red rose, as token of undying love…or as Amazon would like it, a Kindle Fire at just £160.00 for that special someone in your life!
The marketing superpowers have really fucked Valentine’s day up and not content with avoiding tax, Amazon are now trying to pressurise individuals via email so they stripe them for £160.00 just ...