As Crufts 2007 reaches its climax, the national and local press have been giving plenty of column space to doggy-related stories this week. It seems that the canine world can be pretty ruff sometimes. Oho! (more…)[…]

Watching the Brit Awards on Wednesday brought to mind the theory of (yes, you guessed right) Reverse Evolution…
 
It can ony be a matter of time before we are ALL lemurs…[…]

My further extensive research on celebrity Cockney Rhyming Slang reveals that Judith is not alone: Clement Freud is a slightly more straightforward curse when your piles are playing up. (more…)[…]

What’s that glow emanating from the box? A pair of Clarks Magic Steps, of course. Slight lack of Timotei waterfall in this particular ad but you get the idea. I love how the only way the wicked witch can get her grubby paws on the magic key is […]

Some international heritage dudes have decided to make a new list of the 7 Wonders Of The World. We the punters get to vote for our favourite out of a shortlist of 21 famous monuments (the winner announced on the 7th July, 7/7/07 DYS). Luckily the o[…]

It’s a nice theme for a children’s novel – introducing youngsters to the native wildlife of Britain that they will probably never encounter in person save for a fox rooting through their bins or a messy splat on the motorway hard sh[…]

January 2nd may be too soon for some folks to start their year’s pubbing. Not so for a small band of hardy troopers last night – albeit each one having a soft drink infront of them. The conversation took its natural course, and we fell to[…]

My brilliant memory of all events occurring prior to my discovery of the world of alcohol aged 15 is doubted by some and mocked by others. One such memory was of watching an episode of Sooty & Co after school, a programme clearly aimed at a sligh[…]

Due to time constraints my Nansen-eulogising on Tuesday’s radio show was cruelly cut short, so I thought I would expand upon the story here. The BBC4 documentary Voyages of Discovery I saw last week centred largely on Nansen’s adventures in the […]

Last night we bade a fond farewell to Rufus Hound and the Grime Scene Investigation crew. The GSI swansong featured three mucky girls who liked a spot of rugby. Little did they know what grubby horrors the GSI team would find! Rufus (as always) takes[…]