It’s quite uncanny how many of the ideas for 5-4-Fridays come to me when I am sat on the couch late at night, guzzling wine and watching an old episode of The West Wing, Mad Men or The Sopranos. Actually, given how much time I spend sitting on the couch late at night,...
The 2013 version of the world’s greatest golf championship has started at Muirfield in Edinburgh. It is one of my favourite television weeks of the sporting year. However, the chances of me watching The Open from the minute the first drive is struck on Thursday...
There are many who believe that the only good thing ever to come out of Australia is Qantas flight QF1 to London. Personally, I wouldn’t quite go that far, but as a Brit, there’s certainly nothing much better than getting one over the Aussies and being able to rip...
I’ve just started to watch the American TV show Mad Men on Sky’s On Demand service. I’ve seen up to episode four of the first series, so far. I’m sure that doesn’t interest you one tiny bit. It doesn’t particularly excite me either to be honest, because Mad Men, per...
Regular readers of my drivel may already be well aware that, musically, I am more or less stuck in the eighties. In fact I’m not even stuck in all of the eighties; it’s generally just those bits that involved Paul Weller, The Jam (er, Paul Weller) and the Style...
