I received a lovely message from my friend Paul this week, asking if I could expand on the theories I expounded in last week’s essay on Milk. He phrased it more succinctly than that. He [...]
Apparently it’s quite common for people in middle age to go through a breakfast crisis. Folk who have spent their lives beginning the day on a bowl of cereal with milk suddenly feel a [...]
Among the many scraps that have broken out on these shores, one that never seems to get the air time it deserves is a historic tussle that took place over a period of three decades of the [...]
Do you ever ask yourself what’s the plural of January? I did today and it’s been bugging me ever since. You might wonder why anyone would want to pluralise January. Isn’t one [...]
If I happened to be given an old lamp for Christmas and I happened to rub it and a genie happened to pop out and grant me one wish of a purely selfish nature, I have always told myself I would [...]
