They say that bad luck comes in threes. When I say ‘they’, I couldn’t actually pinpoint who ‘they’ are, but whoever ‘they’ might happen to be, there seem [...]
Much as I scorn the News, every so often an item pops up that spurs my interest, though probably not for the reasons intended. For example, this week, as I was assimilating facts about the wine [...]
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 – [...]
I was in the middle of a game of cribbage with three friends of mine when the conversation turned to the subject of Bitcoin. Though I was feeling a little drowsy, I listened carefully for a while [...]
