Looking at my phone calendar, I missed one. A Fete Worse than Death was, well, you can probably guess from the title. A play set at a village fete where the TV detective who is to open proceedings is called on to […]

Restricting myself as usual to things which required leaving the house, there were 3 events at Colchester Arts Centre, or 4 if you include the splendid Classic Horror Night films showings – knowledgable […]

Strawberries, cherries, asparagus and (getting more exotic) alphonso, kesar and honey mangoes. It’s a wonderful time of the year for food.

Rule 34 — “If it exists, there is porn of it.” Get those wrinkled stockings into this bath tub, Norah. I was browsing a mixed box of junk in a flea market in Barcelona once when I was startled to uncov […]

It does. It sounds less like a skin condition than pi… I can’t even type it before I’ve had my breakfast

God yes! I had never seen this revolting phrase until about 3 years ago and then it was everywhere. I still haven’t heard it said but there is a constant fear of catching an advert which uses it and having to […]

I mis-typed, but thankfully never sent, ‘Best Rehards’ so often at the of work emails that I added it to my autocorrect.

It’s our local so our default. Now the security queues have sped up I don’t mind it. The snaking shopping section between security and the main area is a pain, but once you know where the semi-secret extra sea […]

The correct response to that would end with, ‘… and the horse you rode in on.’

‘Can I get … ?’ is a perfectly reasonable way to request something and I struggle to believe that anyone is really bothered by it, though many seem to be. People are odd. I’ll throw in a few public transport […]

My favourite was when I was flying back to Stansted with Ryanair. The priority boarding passengers had queued twice as you describe, while the rest of us sat at the gate. We then saw then loaded into one of those […]

‘Pan fried’. So that’s the secret. I wondered why I keep getting those terrible blisters when I used my hands.

I usually watch the second half of Bargain Hunt on my lunch break. During the bit before the auction, when that day’s presenter visits a local museum or some place of historical interest and talks to a curator o […]

The full list is here, along with the opportunity to play the programme should you so wish https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mf3s

The inspiration for the lyric already exists, seeing as he has indeed only got one ball.

I’d never heard that. I thought it was accepted that it was lifted from Barry Humphries phrase ‘pointing Percy at the porcelain’.

Given the rumoured origin of the nickname Percy I was expecting this to take an altogether different direction.

It’s my contention that the conventional way of using a knife and fork is left handed. I’m very dominantly right handed so use the fork in that hand. Transporting food from the plate to the mouth requires more con […]

This week we’ve seen our first kitchen-ants since moving here in 2024. It’s been blazing sun and around 30c for the last couple of days. Some Nippon should arrive today, the stuff you drip on a coin and gets […]