apropos of nothing - save the fact i’ll be stayin’ over at a  mates house in a few days - a question which has long puzzled me:
“why do the english never have locks on their toilet doors?”
i’m just going though a mental list of friends, acquaintances, in-laws and other ‘persons known to me’ - as [...]

back in the good old days, it was mostly life’s misfits; the rockers, the bikers, the punks and old teddy boys and ex-servicemen who sported a proliferation of tattoos.  nowadays however, it seems you’d be making more of a  statement and cocking more of a snook at the world if you chose not to ‘get [...]

i had to renew the car insurance the other day and, in spite of not having made any claims [for the ninth year in a row] i noticed my insurers had put the premium up by £17 on last year’s.
my previous insurers used to do this as well: every year they’d send me [...]