It makes me smile when some people say, “Don’t forget to flush the chain.” You don’t flush the chain, of course. You can pull the chain or flush the toilet. Pulling the chain was how it used to be done before low-level, quiet-flush, push-button cisterns replaced the high-level, noisy-flush, yank-on-the-handle…

World Cups are everywhere right now. Never seen so many at one time, particularly over the last few days And from an English perspective we aren’t doing too good overall. It’s those pesky people from the southern hemisphere. Rugby League is the sport closest to my heart. England had a…

It was the stuff of nightmares. Boris Johnson back in London. touting for support that would get him back in the race to be next Prime Minister. Surely not. He couldn’t, could he? The man the Speaker of the House of Commons claimed was the worst Prime Minister ever, back…

I’ve just had my Autumn Covid Booster. — Covid Booster time again. That’s four armfuls of the stuff I’ve had altogether. I still don’t know what’s in it, but sometimes you just have to trust the experts, even if you aren’t confident they know exactly what they are doing. I have a trip to Spain on the horizon…

There are 2.4 dollar millionaires in the Uk right now, give or take a few. Why we calculate in dollars rather than pounds, I don’t know, but it’s a good enough figure for now. There’s quite a few around. Some are on the way up, and some are on the…

I don’t like October 1st. For me it officially ends the shorts and tee-shirt months and heralds the start of the pullovers and gloves months. Not a nice thought. The sun is shining today, but I am not fooled. I am reminded of visits to the dentist. The pleasant greeting…

We mourn the death of our Queen. For so long a silent mainstay in our lives. When Princess Elizabeth took the job on of Queen, she was already happily married with her 3-year-old son, the future King, out of nappies and toddling about. She undertook the responsibilities of Queen with…

So why are you reading this post. Is it because it is that nice fellow Chris, who always writes interesting stuff? Or was it the picture? No, I expect the number one reason was the title. You want to know why titles are super important, and what I have to…

I was going through some old photos the other day, and came across this one from 2018. It was the house in Liverpool where Ken Dodd lived. He had passed away in a Liverpool hospital the day before aged 90. I am not a morbid person. I don’t do funerals…