Category: Misc

What fun it is to try to visit people using only public transport and wishing to travel on a Sunday. I wanted to pop down to Kent today to see my brother and his family. My dad and sister were also there. Yesterday I went on the National Rail website to try to use their…

It’s the same old story – Cliff Richard fans are out camping in a car park to buy tickets to a celebrity tennis tournament which go on sale on Monday. The reason for this excitement is supposedly because it’s the last time Cliff will be playing tennis. He’s 64. Cliff Richard fans, as we all…

Yesterday a Virgin Atlantic plane to New York was forced to divert to Canada when it mistakenly sent out a hijack warning signal. Fighter jets were scrambled and it was forced to land in Halifax where RCMP SWAT teams borded the plane. All very exciting, but what are the chances that I knew TWO separate…

For ages it’s always seemed ridiculous to me that service providers are more interested in new customers than their existing ones. You get a better deal by switching away than being loyal. Recently BT and Nationwide have run TV ads explaining that they treat their existing customers as well as their new ones. Now Orange…

In recent years there has been a spate of reports about price fixing replica football shirts. But now you can buy football shirts relatively cheaply if you shop around – with supermarkets and discount sportswear outlets in retail parks (As a sidenote, I was looking for a bar-bell weight at the weekend for reasons I…

I’ve just come back from a sales conference at work in Prague. A good time was had by all, and the people were very friendly. What I didn’t realise was that I was arriving in Prague as the country was going through the closing stages of the Ice Hockey World Cup that was being held…

Still loads of other things to write about, but first something terrible that happened at lunchtime, in which I was an unwitting accessory. I was in a McDonalds near work eating my lunch (yes I know all about Super Size Me), and I was reading my paper in peace having sat down in an unoccupied…

I’ve got loads to write about, and at some point very soon, I’ll write it down. But in the meantime, is everyone else enjoying the Sudoku wars as much as I am? I came across these little puzzles a while ago. Now things are getting out of hand. Earlier this week, The Guardian became the…

It’s stories like this that make me such a terrible hoarder.

In London, as you may or may not know, they’ve been phasing out the old Routemasters and introducing bendy-busses. You know – the things that take up twice as much space as the old ones, and that don’t let you jump on and off whenever you like. Anyway, I still don’t quite understand ticketing on…

Su Doku or should that be Sudoku? Whichever, it’s the craze that’s sweeping the broadsheet-reading nation. And I was completely unaware of it until last Sunday. That was when I was looking in a bookshop and happened to notice a Su Doku puzzle book that seemed to be in the bestsellers section. A quick flick…

The Trocadero must, incredibly, lose more money than anything else in the capital. Let’s see what it has going for it. 1) It’s just off Picadilley Circus and is close to Leicester Square in the heart of London’s West End. 2) It has loads of space within it. 3) It can be adapted to either…

Picture yourself. You’re two thirds of the way through a journey in deepest, darkest north Norfolk. You’re tired. The train leaving London was packed solid due to the fact that it’s the first train out of London that allows Saver tickets. So when you arrive at Norwich station and see a chip vending machine, you…