Archive for March, 2010
I, like many girls of a certain age (ahem, I may have had laser treatment once or twice and that’s al I’m saying about that…), remember the original theme-tunes to Home and Away and Neighbors. And how great they were! But then what’s this? The other day I turn Channel 5 on and what do I see and hear before me? Home and Away, of course–But somehow different–Not only different, but wrong: what I am speaking of, as Read the rest of this entry »
Like everything in life, there is a right way to do something, a few other ways to do it and get away with it, and one way to do it that is simply WRONG: I am talking, as you probably already know if you work with scientists or American psychologists (they are two of the worst) about men who can spell hr management software backwards in two seconds and who cross their legs in that way that makes you think Read the rest of this entry »
As a young child I watched Mum make tea—ten cups simultaneously no less, which is still no less impressive—and I thought ‘that looks easy, I’m sure I can master that in a few goes’. How wrong was I! I was so wrong. Not only was I wrong, but I had hugely misunderstood the complexities of how to make a fine cup of tea. I had assumed that the spoon was simply a piece of metal, and that by dropping it Read the rest of this entry »
I never liked Whales. It’s strange. I mean, I love fish, but anything bigger than a mackerel concerns me. And whales are somewhat bigger than a mackerel. They are ma-hussive in fact. But here’s the thing: the picture at this blog concerned me.
Much as I can personally take or leave whales—leave if I have anything to do with it—this is shocking. It just goes to show that it doesn’t matter how big you are or how tough your skin Read the rest of this entry »
There is a certain type of person who is so infuriating that no word other than the made up one REALLYMEGAINFURIATINGLYANNOYINGGIT will do for describing them. I am talking, of course, about those people who put water into washing-up liquid bottles in order to make the washing-up liquid stretch further. Newsflash people: this does not work! Not only does it not work but the liquid is too thin to be of any use. It’s crap. You may as well chuck Read the rest of this entry »
As the BBC announces that it is axing Radio 6, I’m heartened to see that many a celebrity has jumped onto this bandwagon in an attempt to save it. What is the BBC thinking of? A tiny amount of our licence fee goes towards radio, and frankly I would gladly pay all of it just to keep Jarvis Cocker and Guy Garvey in the DJing booth/their bedrooms or wherever they choose to broadcast from.
As a London dweller I’m also Read the rest of this entry »