Every year in February hundreds of men wander around shops with a slightly jarred haunted look in their eyes. They know that if they don’t perform well, if they don’t pull it out of the bag as it were, then they are in trouble, deep trouble – the kind of immense, complicated trouble that you [...]
Seeing as it’s officially the most depressing day of the year I thought I’d try and cheer myself up by looking ahead to the future and the glorious possibility that I might actually go on holiday this year; in a further effort to ward of the January malaise I have taken it upon myself to [...]
It’s amazing how quickly the whole European continent can shut down simply by mixing water with very, very cold temperatures. Unless you’ve been hibernating for the last two months, you may have noticed the snowpocalypse occurring across our green and pleasant lands. Up and down the country snow has been falling at an alarming rate, [...]
The Arab Emirate of Dubai seems to enjoy the limelight, when they’re not causing international consternation and causing financial ripples across the world, they’re often building things – giant mahoosive, unrivalled and unprecedented things. As incredibly rich Emirates go, Dubai is not exactly the richest oil-blessed nation in the Arabian Peninsula; so instead of relying [...]
I’ve been out of the country for the week or so and as a result there hasn’t really been much posting going on, but as well roll on into 2010 that will all change. The noughties are over and long live the teenies I guess. If you’ve had a bad year perhaps the girls can [...]