Those who follow me personally on Facebook will know I’ve just come back from a holiday in Orlando. It was my third trip to the Sunshine state, but the first for almost twelve years. I know that people have their own favourite holiday destinations like Magaluf,...
One of the roller-coasters at the Alton Towers theme park crashed earlier in the week, injuring a number of thrill-seekers, as the tabloids would call them. How galling, to queue for a couple of hours for the ride, only to have your carriage crash into an empty,...
I had a spot of man flu last weekend. You know the beast, a bit of a cough, a snotty nose, aches and pains and generally feeling under the weather. It’s not enough to make you miss your weekend boozing but you do sneeze now and again and cough a couple of times and...
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...
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...