My designer friend Nick, who designed the book of this very blog (available in all good book shops, in Bell Street, Reigate – although they may have sold it by now), was out digging weeds this [...]
The recent couple of weeks of sunshine – what we in England call ‘summer’ – has left the water level down a bit in my garden pond. Apparently a pond evaporates by about one inch per [...]
It’s probably my age by there’s a been a lot of talk going on around me lately concerning bunions. I don’t know much about the bunion, other than that it rhymes with onion and [...]
Given the amount of greens they consume in their youth, you would think butterflies would be more muscular. How can a diet of brassicas produce both Arnie and these feather-light sylphs that flit [...]
So who do you complain to when the Ombudsman lets you down? Is there an ombudsman’s ombudsman? Is an ombudsman always a man? If so, why? And if not, why hasn’t it been changed to a [...]