Posts in category People & Places

The last 24 hours have been utterly shit. I got stood up, I discovered I have to work an extra 30 hours a week for …

I sat down to write my New Year’s Resolutions today, and I had every intention of producing a list of my future goals. Of the …

Red post boxes. Red telephone boxes. Red double decker buses. Fish and chips. Big Ben. The Upper Classes. The Working Classes. Crap tea. The list …

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… …at the ancient times when all the family gathered around the table with additional unwanted guests. It’s …

Simple enough French. I’m always in search of the next adventure, right? Wrong. Apparently, this little phrase, which I’ve had on my dating profile for …

Well I was bored of being boring. And boring, yesterday was not. In the name of my new project of taking on challenges, the guy …

Who works in call centres? Gnomes? Aliens? Small Indian men who call themselves John but are really called Raj? What really goes on, what is …

The joy, the methods, the frustration, the tools. Everything about tackling this Viking tongue is different to how I have absorbed languages in the past. …

The entire street was draped with creepers. I followed his instructions through the gate on the right, down the passage on the left, and round …

In need of getting out of London, but don’t want to travel too far? Look no further than the prettiest city in the Cotswolds – …