Cup Of Coffee

British visitors will already be well aware of this but for everyone else let me tell you just how warm it is. I took this snap a few nights ago whilst popping to the shops when it was particularly hot. The air-conditioning still wasn’t on because I’m a tight git and my 1-a-litre fuel isn’t [...]

It’s sale time again, which is pretty good news if you can afford to buy anything. We can’t, we’re skint. If you’ve just got married and recently come back from Honeymoon then you’ll probably know how it feels. Getting married is very expensive and the “multi-centre” holiday afterwards is by no means cheap either. So [...]

The British people are a weird bunch. If it snows then we’ll all say, “Oohh, it’s too cold”. If it’s a bit warm – like now – people will say, “Oooo, it’s too hot” ! You just can’t win. We’re not alone though because in Los Angeles there’s a heatwave too. It’s got so bad [...]

When I was a little’un I distinctly remember spending Saturday afternoons watching the wrestling on ITV. Yes, it’s showing my age a bit but some of you may remember the likes of Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy slapping each other around in an almost panto-like way. It was nothing at all like todays’ WWE crap [...]

A few years back I first had my Nokia 5 (it was like a brick with a rubber aerial) on Orange. One of my primary reasons for choosing them was because they had free itemised billing. How things change. Suddenly, and for no real reason that I can see, there’s a charge of 1.50 per [...]

Meet Emma Cox, 28, and Luke Pittard, 23. These guys live in South Wales with their respective parents and they both work in the Pontprennau branch of McDonalds. In fact Emma has worked there for 10 years and has worked up to area manager for 16,000 a year. Luke meanwhile is a staff trainer on [...]

The Middle East has been plunged once again into an escalating crisis. More attacks, bloodshed and air-raids and no end in sight as Israel and Lebanon trade blows. The Hezbollah raid into Israel, in which eight Israeli soldiers were killed and two were captured, was a provocative attack which caused Israel to immediately retaliate. The [...]

It’s great to see Top Gear back on Sundays again. I laughed pretty much all the way through. If you missed it then it’ll be repeated on Tuesday or you can watch the whole programme right now here (you must be a UK resident) thanks the the BBC website. It was great to see Jeremy [...]

It’s Saturday and today I’ve actually got up early and I’m on a very quick Virgin train down to London for the MoDaCo event. It’s already been a hectic morning. I had everything planned with almost military precision. I’d get up, be out the house for about 8.45 and that’d give me more than enough [...]

Good old Sir Clive Sinclair has obviously recovered from the whole Sinclair C5 problems in 1985 and is coming out with some pretty decent ideas. His Sea Doo device seems to be doing quite plus he’s got some other interesting stuff including some strange power-drive thing for a regular wheelchairs. The original C5 above was [...]