“Life is a roller-coaster”. So sang that Ronan Keating fella back in 2000. He should be paying every Wigan Athletic fan copyright fees or royalties or something, because we’ve been singing along to that tune for nigh on forty years, every since we arrived in the...
Long gone are the days when all you had in your car by way of potential audio entertainment was a manually tuned MW/LW radio and a cassette player that chewed your C90 to bits every coupe of miles. My current car – which is nothing special, not by any means – has a FM...
It’s amazing the little things that can cause a row at home. There are things that you do that you think is perfectly acceptable behaviour that really winds up your partner and can cause the most horrific, pointless rows. And vice versa, of course; there are little,...
As a soccer-mad dad, it has been mildly disappointing that my son has, so far, shown little interest in football. He is ten years old and, thus far, his live football-watching career is limited to two (turgid) pre-season friendlies. At the time of writing, however, he...
Most countries have something which they probably feel defines them as a nation or a people. Something that the rest of the world recognises as being home to that particular country. Many nationalities can lay claim to something that they are particularly renowned...
