Howling winds wailed (or is it whaled? Sometimes, I actually understand the need for sub-editors) outside our four-berth, two-balconies-for-the-price-of-one apartment. “Oh shit,” I remember thinking, also thinking we might be too far from Tavernas and…
Jack Black joined us on the flight from Manchester to Kos, where an as yet unknown, revealed on arrival apartment awaited. The total AC/DCness of School of Rock made a smoooooooth four-hour flight flyyyyy even…
Sunning myself on a Greek island later today…. I was served at the bank today by somebody called Janet Jackson. Janet, down on her uppers since the Timberlake revelation, now works reception at Nat West…
There is no perverted penguin rustler working the streets of North Yorkshire. The penguin made a break for it all by itself. Maybe the relationship it had with its life partner had hit a rocky…
Temperature in Kos: 24c Temperature in Hull: 17c. This is the first time I’ve checked out the weather to see what’s in store but, ooh, it’s lookin’ good and skimpy shorts will be de rigeur.…
Yesterday’s shoe fiasco has come back to haunt me. Today I wear the appropriately restrictive office clothing that my boss likes me tethered inside but was looking forward to slipping into somethin’ a whole lot…
Show me the shoes and I’ll give you the man. The importance of shoes, those that match the rest of your attire, just can’t be overstated. Shoes, shoes, shoes are so very, very important. Today,…
This time next week I’ll be in Kos, chilled and necking bottles of Mythos. This time this week I’m in York, chilled and necking Austrian lager in The Ebor, as children run free in the…
This evening’s lessons were that plays about cellists starring ex-Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?’ actors don’t really work and that the Museums Gardens in York are a really nice place to stroll with a…
How is it that Humberside Police can lose a whole array of life-saving files on Ian Huntley but can never misplace a parking fine? Where’s ineptness and stupidity when you need it? There goes another…