the other day, the postie greeted me bleary-eyed on the doorstep with a package which turned out to be the new  itrip i’d ordered a couple of days earlier, to accompany my ipod.  although i’d read good reviews about the itrip, i was expecting it to be  at best a ‘not bad’ piece of [...]

i must say, the pope’s looking a hell of a lot healthier since his death!
it really seems to have done him the power of good.  gone is the shaking and the incontinent drooling.  in place of that stavros-like squawk, he’s now adopting a dignified silence.  it really is an incredible transformation.  now, if only [...]

looks like the pope is finally going to snuff it tonight [unless it's all an april fool's trick and he's really cartwheeeling round the vatican as i write].

apparently most of the catholic world is praying for the pontiff in these, his final hours. so, in the spirit of  ecumenical harmony - and bearing in mind [...]