So there we were, out for a power walk (okay stroll) on a lovely warm summer evening, when the conversation turned to bird crap and the likelihood of being hit by it.

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I watched quite a bit of the recent  Paralympics (or Paramedics as my mum inadvertently called it)  and it reminded me of a  surreal encounter I once had with a one legged naked  bloke in a hotel steam room.  Don’t worry, this isn’t going to descend into the sort of thing you might find in one of the grimier corners of the internet! Continue reading →

If you’re still wondering what the result would be if you let a group of excitable five year olds loose with curling tongs and some poster paint on a partially decomposed corpse, then you clearly missed the opening episode of the new series of Dragons Den this week. And Hilary Devey wasn’t the only one to have been given a bizarre makeover. With Peter Jones looking like an extra from a Edwardian period drama and Duncan Bannatyne having the demeanour of a man who had just arrived fresh from taking third place in a Ray Reardon look-a-like competition, it was all a bit odd. Only the contestants restored a sense of normality.

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In his book, ‘Think Fast, Think Slow’ , Nobel prize winning author Daniel Kahneman writes about a fascinating experiment carried out at New York University by psychologist, John Bargh. Continue reading →

Peter Kay is crap. He isn’t in the least bit funny. He’s rubbish. He’s never said anything that anyone would laugh at. He’s over-rated and one of the laziest people in show business. Continue reading →