“Hey Dad, which TV advert is this song from?” asked Alex, as we hurtled down the M53 towards Chester last Saturday. I struggled to answer the question on two separate counts. Firstly, we were listening to Capital FM which, to the best of my knowledge, rarely plays any...
At the height of the recent tedious blanket news coverage that accompanied the recent birth of the new Prince of Cambridge, Alex asked me what name I thought they should give the free-loading leech/tourism revenue generator – delete as appropriate, according to...
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,...
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...
