Dreams and Liars

Jonathon is amongst the dreaming spires this week, as he considers Oxfordian slang... I was in Oxford yesterday. Waiting for my train home I noticed that the marketing boys and girls have been in and that the old place is now labelled the city of ‘learning and culture’ which is I ... Read More...

Fancy lunch?

Solo Twister, fried chicken and good old heterosexual tactility in Susan's diary this week... ‘Rebecca – 3 miles away’ keeps popping up on my computer screen, looking for a date - I’m just trying to work out why. I understand that men have occasionally been known to feel attracted to women. ... Read More...

Rocket Mail

These days with our lightening fast internet connections it's easy to forget how people were always thinking of ways to shift their envelopes around the place that little bit faster, and what could be faster than blasting it into orbit in an enormous rocket? Rocket mail has been attempted by various ... Read More...

It’s Raining

February and it's still raining. It’s raining, it’s pouring, The old man is snoring, He went to bed and bumped his head And couldn’t get up in the morning. As someone said, my favourite rhyme about a lonely old person dying in their bed in a storm. Like much else in the nursery repertoire, a ... Read More...

Crazy Horses

Frank reveals the true story behind the origins of the Osmonds' (horse)meatiest song... Those of us old enough to recall the days when the Osmonds were titans of pop have probably blocked from our memories most of the mawkish drivel with which they assaulted the charts. One song, however, remains indelibly ... Read More...