People get awfully touchy about death, don’t you think? You’re not really allowed to laugh or make jokes about it and, let’s face it, it’s no laughing matter. My granny used to say “there’s folk dying who’ve never died before” and that was as close to being...
Anyone who took part in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Prediction competition will recall that we offered a huge £400+ in prize money whilst raising £100+ for charity at the same time. We will be running another competition this summer for the Euro 2016 football tournament...
I went to the fridge at work to liberate some ham for my lunch the other day. I was really looking forward to it but when I got there it had gone. Apparently, as it was approaching its “use by” date, a colleague had thoughtfully taken it to the local food...
As I write this, the day before they play Coventry City at home, Wigan Athletic have just six games to go until the end of the season. And what a season it’s been, too. Off the field it has been a fantastically enjoyable one. We’ve had some monumental away trips, the...
I don’t know why, but I’ve never really considered Easter to be a holiday time like Christmas. Maybe it’s because it always falls on different dates but it is pretty clear that it is considered to be very much like Christmas these days, albeit Christmas’s little...
