There's a sign in Vauxhall tube station where they have excavated the escalator "Warning: large void lies behind this facade".

I might put it on my business cards.

I've had it with this. If you want proper alienated outsider drivel read Taylor Parkes blog. It's like this without the whimsy. And its better written.

How long have coca-cola (R)been using "bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" ie the up beat ending to Morcombe and Wise's "Bring Me Sunshine" to advertise their vile product? ( ITS STAMPED ON THE CANS!)

Variety Sunshine Coaches I can see, BUT COKE..?

Out clothes shopping with a girlfriend the other day. I try on a jacket. "How do I look?" I enquire innocently.

"That's really good!" she enthuses "You should definately buy that. If I didnt know you I'd think you were sexy!" she adds distractedly.

Oh COME ON!

Was much taken by the following (it was published in 1785 ( Read more... )

Not round my way they havent mate ( Read more... )

But I dont think I dream anymore...

Ive been reading The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. He's great. Apocalyptic AND English! Its a great combo. He describes his birthday on page one thusly " A few satisfactory calls, lobster and Chablis at Wheeler's, Ustinov's latest extravaganza(!), a little supper, and so back to the hotel where Janet enjoyed the bathroom with that fascination ( Read more... )

The headline on the newsboard outside my local newsagent reads " Suicides will Soar " this morning.

Not very uplifting...

This fascinating insight into the mind of a writer was unearthed when a cache of Gogol’s notebooks was recently published ( Read more... )