I happened to be on the island when Princess Diana died – I was on a trip around Wales and wondered why on earth all these people were queueing outside Carnarfon Castle to lay flowers and sign a book of…

There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to talk about cricket in general right now, and another part that doesn’t ever really want to be the kind of person that just drops things like, “I had the pleasure of…

“You have 2 new messages.” Outlook interrupts me, just, just at the moment I’m about to finally start on that translation I’ve been putting off for days. The first message is, of course, some nonsense resulting from a job interview,…

You rent it out to someone who’s booked and paid for an Audi…. Okay, okay. Skoda’s are apparently nowhere near as bad as they used to be. I remember as a youngster being terrified that my father might, as one…

Sigh. Although the advertising campaign is still running as if nothing has happened. Now, although falling over and twisting your knee when you’re not being pushed by someone is pretty idiotic, the kind of thing I would do in fact,…

Sometime later on today it’s going to be safe for football fans to turn on the television. Admittedly not, as advertised, at 3 o’clock when there’ll presumably be lots of schoolchildren running around the pitch, releasing doves and sundry worthies…