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Man, 38, has overblown sense of suavity cruelly punctured, then alarmingly restored.
On my way home from work yesterday I decided to take a small detour to Marble Hill Park, and spend a pleasant quarter of an hour in the sun, watching the village cricket and enjoying one of those small cans of ready-mixed Gordons G&T. On the way I passed St Stephen's Church, where I noticed three or four unhappy looking people sitting outside, ( Read more... ) -
Ill-informed man presents roundup of urban music scene.
Since starting my new job a couple of months ago I've had the pleasure of listening on a daily basis to Choice FM, which bills itself as "your favourite urban station". Obviously this isn't true in my case; my favourite urban station is Euston. In fact I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but I once saw Melvyn Hayes from It Ain't Half Hot, Mum ( Read more... ) -
Twickenham man in bizarre attack on blameless New Wave band.
The other day catbo posted a Livejournal entry in which she linked to the video of Making Plans for Nigel by XTC. If you're not familiar with the lyrics to Making Plans for Nigel, it begins like this: We're only making plans for Nigel / We only want what's best for him / We're only making plans for Nigel / Nigel just needs this helping hand. What lovely ( Read more... ) -
SAVAGE or SAVANT?
I was reading Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth recently. It's all not that good, to be honest - there's 185 pages and the first monster doesn't turn up until page 133. Up until then it's all plot and characterisation. Who's interested in that? Monsters, that's what you want. Well anyway, on page 155 there was a scene where the ( Read more... ) -
Man becomes embroiled in supermarket delivery service tug-of-love.
I've had a reply to my strongly-worded letter to Sir Terry Leahy, the Chief Executive of Tesco Plc, which I'll place behind this ( cut ) -
A strongly-worded letter to Sir Terry Leahy, Chief Executive, Tesco Plc.
I was out in Richmond out last Thursday - Richmond, Surrey I mean, not Richmond, North Yorkshire, parliamentary seat of bald former Conservative leader William Hague - meeting some friends for a drink. Well I say meeting some friends; what actually happened was I got the date wrong and they'd all gone out on the Wednesday. Apparently they'd had to ( Read more... ) -
Some quite fascinating information about former Coronation Street actress Sarah Lancashire.
If you're an avid reader of the Daily Mail, a keen fan of the former Coronation Street actress Sarah Lancashire, and in possession of an unusually good memory - it's a long shot, I grant you - then you'll probably remember this article by Kathryn Knight from April 2003. Ah, April 2003, when "Make Luv" by Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham topped the ( Read more... ) -
Man inadvertently influences Buckinghamshire under 13's cricket league. Or does he?
I received a text message a few weeks ago from a number I didn't recognise. It read: "Unfortunately tomorrows u13 cricket has been cancelled as they are unable to raise a team. Cheers charlie". Naturally my first reaction was dismay at Charlie's sloppy grasp of punctuation and laziness in failing to capitalise proper nouns. We Wards are ( Read more... ) -
Fatuous man discusses forthcoming elections in typically inane fashion.
I don't know about you, but I'm so excited about this week's European elections I'm even considering voting in them. Imagine that! Of course, participating in an election is a serious business, and one should never do so without making a careful assessment of the various candidates and their policies. Personally I was planning to vote for the ( Read more... ) -
Man writes 820 words mostly about cereal, remains unrepentant.
Outside Waterloo station in the mornings you often get people handing out free samples of some new product or other. I never take one, because I'm worried about looking like a cheapskate. If they charged money for the sample - ideally it would be too much money, like a fiver or something - then I might be interested, but it always seems a bit ( Read more... )