What is a Carillion anyway? Does it even exist? Well, no, I guess it doesn’t any more. Now, a carillon – that rings a bell. Not to be confused with a clarion, a carillon is a contraption [...]
If you enjoy pain, and are tired of listening to Florence and the Machine, try putting a staple into your finger by mistake. On the Richter Scale of agony, it ranks a couple of places above [...]
I love cows, as I was recently reminded when I made my annual visit to a steak restaurant in Portugal called Wolf. I hardly ever go to steak restaurants – you could call it a rare occurrence – [...]
This week’s word is late in coming to you for one very good reason: I’ve been distracted. You know when you get a hair stuck in the back of your throat and you can’t shift it? [...]
Here’s a question for you. Who holds the record for the world’s most pointless world record? There must be hundreds of candidates. I remember someone doing laps of TV Centre carrying [...]
