It’s official – I’m the best. Number one. Top of the pile. It must be true, because the Channel 4 programme ‘Best and Worst’ says so, as according to their TV programme that was on last night which highlighted the ten best places and the ten worst places to live in the UK, my hometown [...]

Penguin Chocolate Bars! Thought for the day: What’s the point of having different coloured wrappers when they’re all the same milk chocolate biscuit bar inside?

I’ve just spent the entire morning wearing my supposedly fashionable t-shirt inside out. The trouble is with poncey expensive tops is that they often then don’t have an obvious sticky-out sort of label to help you out with which way round you should be wearing it, and so I went the entire morning wearing it [...]

Ok, hands up who else likes the Daniel Powter song ‘Bad Day‘ then? It’s rising up my iTunes rankings at a rapid pace, closely followed behind by the rather nifty new Gorillaz release ‘Dare‘. All good stuff. Right, linkety-link-heaven for you today as I do one of those catch-ups on all the things which people [...]

Ok – so did anybody watch or record the new Danny Wallace programme last night “How to start your own country”? I completely forgot to watch it – or indeed record it on my Tivo, this – despite having seen him on BBC Breakfast in the morning plugging it, and then about five minutes later [...]

Back down to earth then. Back to normality, and I would like to ask – am I alone in the world from suffering from what I’d call “Post-excitement blues”? i.e. you have a massive high about something that you’ve done, or somewhere where you’ve been and when it’s all over – and you realise it’s [...]