Tag: Funny

  • The Perfect Ride: Cycling Plus Feature

    Imagine the scene: the sun is shining and the birds are singing. You’re on your bike, riding at that perfect pace: not too slow so you’re burning carbs, not too fast so you take in the vista around you. Your freshly-shaved legs are looking good in perfectly fitting shorts and your tan lines are maturing…

  • Bump, Baby & You

    Bump, Baby & You

    Nobody, and I really mean NOBODY is interested in other people’s holiday snaps. They are the photographic equivalent of watching Songs Of Praise at your nan’s house or uncomfortable chats with taxi drivers – something to be endured and got over with, as quickly as is humanly possible.

  • Bored Games – Country Child Magazine

    Bored Games – Country Child Magazine

    For hour after hour, I’d play on ‘The Triangles’, where tufts of grass became forests in which The A-Team could take cover and broken kerb stones transformed into a ramps that allowed my Knight Rider car to heroically leap any number of death-defying obstacles. I lost teeth, scuffed knees, argued, won (and lost) friends, not…

  • When did we ditch niceness?

    When did we ditch niceness?

    Now, I’m sure there’s a fair number of you queuing up to label me an overly sensitive snowflake. Fair enough, but I’m serious here. We, as a society, seem to have lost something. We’ve allowed ‘niceness’ to become a negative trait; something to be purged from our systems in case it shows up as weakness.…

  • Mirror.co.uk: Father’s Day Guide

    Mirror.co.uk: Father’s Day Guide

    In the course of human history, more arguments have started over who’s in charge of the TV Remote Control than any other subject. You know it’s true. So give your dad the ultimate gift: 24 hours of the TV he wants to watch – without criticism.

  • The Scotsman: MAMIL piece…

    The Scotsman: MAMIL piece…

    It’s that time again. Up and down the country you’ll hear the shrieks as men (old enough to know better) hop around bathrooms trying to staunch the flow of blood after doing their legs a major mischief while trying to shave them smooth. Soon, once 1,000 tiny cuts dry, the same men are dousing themselves…

  • Waxing lyrical…

    Did you ever see the piece I did for The Western Morning News about having my legs waxed? It’s well worth a read…