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Beauty always wins
11:35am Friday 2nd January 2009
Forget the New Year resolution nonsense. No-one buys it anyway. But if I could truly change something about myself this year, it’d be that I was attractive.
Comments (0)On yer bike
2:56pm Monday 29th December 2008
refuse to go to private dentists: my taxes include payment for oral care. So when my NHS dental surgery (aren’t they like gold dust?) moved from Cowley Road to the far side of Kidlington, I moved too.
Season to love city’s cyclists
2:50pm Monday 22nd December 2008
My five-year-old today managed to draw up a strategy for peace in the Australasian archipelago of New Guinea.
Man about Town
2:00pm Friday 19th December 2008
Me? I’m a fairweather Christian. Which means, of course, when everything’s rosy, I don’t need God. But when work’s awful, or my plane hits turbulence, or the doctor writes me a letter, then miraculously, I believe.
Cabbages and Kings
2:48pm Thursday 18th December 2008
She looked like a damsel in distress. Only a cad would have rejected her plea for help.
On yer bike
4:05pm Monday 15th December 2008
“AH, look at all the solo drivers …” I’m on Cowley Road. It’s paralysed, as ever, by a hundred bad decisions to take the car.
Man about town
6:52pm Friday 12th December 2008
So you've got a cold but want to act like a real man? Clearly, you can tell that this week’s column is aimed solely at men, as women, of course, never make a fuss when ill. Hell no, because as any woman worth her salt will tell you, men are just babies when it comes to dealing with sickness.
Cabbages and Kings
6:25pm Thursday 11th December 2008
I admit it. When leaving Samata School in Kathmandu earlier this week, I cried like a baby.
A bike is not just for Christmas
5:17pm Monday 8th December 2008
Well, with Christmas looming you’re probably not thinking a whole lot about cycling.
We need bigger sofas
8:25pm Friday 5th December 2008
Question: So you want to know the secret to a long and contented life? The answer is: buy a bigger sofa. And why should this item of home furnishing make any difference when foreign holidays, sex and hard liquor clearly haven’t?
Cabbages and Kings
6:08pm Thursday 4th December 2008
We have had a nail-biting time this week, what with murders in the Kathmandu Valley averaging one a day, strikes, and anxiety over atrocities in Mumbai and Karachi which seem a little too close for comfort.
Man About Town
4:59pm Friday 28th November 2008
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... And how do I know? Because this week, two office workers bumped into me as they struggled along Cornmarket, santa hats on, pin-balling their way between Pret A Manger, Thorntons, and then on to Boots and Gap. Beaming...
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