Animals

Are you a sponge or a stone? Do you like to experience all facets of life? Or do you shut yourself off from new experience? Fans of Withnail and I will immediately recognise these lines as Uncle [...]

What part of your body disappears when you stand up? (Stop tittering at the back.) The answer I’m looking for is, of course, the lap.

I recently had the melancholy experience of stumbling across an obituary for someone I know. Or knew. Stuart Christie, a daring anarchist who conspired to blow up General Franco and was nearly [...]

Ever felt like you’ve been caught in a trap? If I recall correctly, I think Elvis did, but I don’t think he meant it literally. For many of us, quarantine and isolation may be the closest we’ll [...]

Do you ever get accused of being negative? It’s an impossible one to come back from, isn’t it? What can you say? “No I’m not.”