Just had the misfortune to catch a few minutes of that ghastly Essex Marbella programme. What will it do for Marbs as a holiday destination? Marbs has always been a bit tacky. Cash but no panache....
Britain's national bird ... the Robin? No Gulls in the Top 10? I think a recount is needed. National bird? How often do you ever see a Robin? And I'm sorry, the "Mute Swan" (is that a real bird) comes...
Oh, hey, I just heard (years late!) about this guy called Anatoli Bugorski. So he's doing some work on a Russian particle accelerator, when ... A particle (a proton or something) travelling at close...
Are there any other users of Victoria Station? I only do because it's where you end up if you get on the train here. But it's really a dump. All the London stations have been done up. Kings Cross has...
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally...
Is this for real? http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/yoko-ono-i-had-an-affair-with-hillary-clinton-in-the-70s/ We all know that Yoko is as mad as a box of frogs, but ... Obviously this will make the...
Just supposing ... You live in a town where there is a Chilli Festival in September. You would like to demonstrate your chilli eating credentials, by picking up the odd chilli and chomping away on it,...
And the prize for ... Best Anti Conservative Protest ... goes to the voter in the Monmouthshire constituency who expressed (his or her) opinion of Conservative candidate Glyn Davies by drawing ......
Is it because classical performers are becoming better known? Or is the classical market simply relying on the "boy band factor"* ... that you are more likely to buy a CD if it has someone sexy on the...
You meet your commuter pals off the train for a quick early evening livener. Before you know it, the evening is gone. Not even time to watch this week's Game Of Thrones. Is it good? No no, you can't...
Post a really cool picture. I'm setting a high bar here ... This is Hélène Grimaud, in a pair of Mont Blanc sunnies, on the side of ... anyone?? ... The Duomo di Milano(!), looking out over the...
I've just hot footed it (ie driven carefully and legally) back from The Barbican, where we saw Hélène Grimaud playing a stunning recital of piano works based around the theme of water, along with a...