Memoirs Of A Fire Hazard

Yes, I know that Center is an incorrect spelling, but that's what it's called so that is how you spell it. Regardless of correct sp...

Religion............  Shit it! I've stolen those words, I confess.  They were Stephen Fry's response when asked about religion in ...

I've always considered myself the sort of person who would never worry about his name. I'm the son of a man called Donald after all,...

Along with peanut butter and jelly, buttermilk pancakes and driving on the wrong side of the road, baseball is just something that you have ...

You'd expect we'd be parked out by the time we rocked up at Universal Studios, some five days into our holiday. You'd be wrong. ...

Hollywood Studios One thing you can't avoid in Orlando is theme parks, and so we were unsurprised to find ourselves at Hollywood Studios...

From one Kingdom to another, and Disney's optimistically named Magic Kingdom. Every effort is made at the Magic Kingdom to make visitors...

What else are you going to do the day after you have been to see a collection of sea creatures but go and see more animals? Disney's Ani...

Sorry to interrupt the Orlando story but I feel the need to write this while it is fresh in the memory. For those of you strange enough to b...

Sea World If I thought clambering into the car was acrobatic, I hadn't seen anything yet. The first morning of our stay we decided, for...

Right, now that title has conned at least 30 beautiful women (and you) into reading my work I can begin the real business of describing my r...

Pharmacy Farce There is a line in the Coen Brothers' excellent 'Burn After Reading' which came to mind today after a quite tortu...

I'm ill. Now I realise that is not the most upbeat start to a column (see, I'm not even entertaining that other word now) but my ram...

Yes that title is a double entendre. Well spotted. So anyway today is a bit of a special day as it the day when the great, good and Russel B...

Just a quickie today if I may Madam........... You know how last week I was talking about how staggering acts of stupidity are magnified by ...

Past My Best As is natural for any writer I sometimes wonder about the impact of this blog. No, column. I'm going to call it a column ...

I'm not here to laugh at suicide, but when having a spot of lunch (get me, they don't have lunch in Thatto Heath) with a couple of f...

'A working class hero is something to be'. So sang John Lennon in December 1970. Apparently the legendary ex-Beatle was trying to te...

I don't normally write about anything that happens at work. It's a bit of a taboo. There's far too much scope for offending the ...

I was going to write a review of this, the 2010 version of a classic tale of Greek mythology, with it's preposterously large serpentine ...