How one person destroyed my life — So I left a comment on someone’s piece a few weeks ago. I can’t remember exactly what I said because it was deleted. But it went something like this. “The best thing that could happen to the Baby Boomers is die!” The piece in question criticized another writer (not me)…

When Zombies walked the Earth — I needed some new sneakers. The soles of my old ones were so worn through it felt like running in slippers. I arrived at the shopping mall on Saturday afternoon and witnessed a human farmyard. Animals scurrying from one shop to the next laden with bags hanging off their swollen…

Because I’m not! — There are only two people I know who have Wikipedia entries. They are:

And if so, what are they doing there? — You must have seen this? A dog without its owner hurrying along a road like it’s on its way to a meeting. If you haven’t, look at the photo above. Now imagine a human (maybe the dog’s owner) charging along a street to that all important meeting. Terrified they’ll get…

Are humans turning into cats? — — Who’s put on weight recently? — Who’s sleeping 22 hours a day? — Who’s ratty and irritable? — Who hates everything? I’m talking about my cat. But I could be speaking about myself. I don't know where you live, but I’m glad you don’t live near me. If you…

— And do they still work? — It’s a damp Sunday evening in November, and I’m standing in line outside a phone box. In front of me are three or four other people wrapped up in jumpers and jackets waiting to use the phone. In 1991, as a student in Nottingham (UK), trying to make a call…

Another death by a French hunter sparks national anger — again! — Julien Féral was out hunting when he mistook a man for a wild boar and fired. The bullet passed through Morgan Keane’s heart and lungs, and he died fifteen minutes later. He was chopping wood in his garden. A court in South West France last week found Julien Féral guilty…

How about slower speeds, not faster ones! — Remember the old days of the internet when you used to run a telephone cord from your bedroom to your parent’s internet dial-up connection? Ten minutes later your dad would knock at your door complaining you were chewing up all the bandwidth! (A new word back then.) ‘I’m researching a…

And why crime fiction was never the same again — Raymond Chandler has been described as one of the 20th century’s greatest stylists. And with good reason. Pick up any of his seven novels, and without reading the cover, you know it’s a Chandler. “The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls Royce…