1) “I found a fifty dollar bill just lying in the street” “Oh you jammy git!” “Jammy what?” “You jammy git!” “What?”.
[pause]
“I mean, you terribly lucky person you for being so fortuitous with finding such an item” “Oh.”
2) “But I just can’t get it to work .. it’s never going to work” [...]

For some reason, a bizarre childhood memory that sticks in my mind is being given a copy of ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4′ for my eleventh birthday back in 1983.
The humerous way in which it was written completely went over the head of this eleven year old, an my initial impression [...]

Ok, so now that I have nine games of Scrabulous on the go through Face book (You know - Facebook, the social networking site that I refuse to join), my word-forgery has increased immensely of late.
So when I stumbled across these ten today, in a ‘word’ frame of mind I enjoyed it immensely, and thought [...]

A red pillar box. A union jack painted scooter and sofa-bench. Ben Sherman and Ted Baker shops. A snack in Pret-a-Manger. That’s right, I can only be shopping in one place … London? No! New York.

A flying visit to the PDN Photoplus Expo meant that I got to go the [...]

Apologies if you’ve seen this recently - I gather it’s being doing the rounds, but since I got sent this yesterday it’s been totally fascinating me.
Look at the silhouette dancing image on the right here, and tell me this: Is she spinning clockwise, or anti-clockwise?
Supposedly, this is a ‘Right Brain vs Left Brain’ test, and [...]

Geoff’s medical quest of America continues, this week: The Opticians. Or as some people obviously simplify it: ‘The Eye Doctor’.
Actually, the difference that I found out about optometrists here is that in the UK, they can only serve for you for vision correctional procedures (i.e. glasses and lenses), but if you have a disease of [...]