Childhood memories are usually dominated by cloudless summer days, scraped knees from falling of your bike and burning ants alive using a magnifying glass and the sun. Mine are also dominated by the mornings when I’d come downstairs to find my school report had arrived. Throughout the term I’d assured...

It’s been a tough day and as I write to you at 5:30 pm I feel very tired. My exhaustion has nothing to do with work but with the fact that the work has been done in temperatures of 80 degrees plus inside an iron box with no bloody air conditioning. This is normal procedure for a [...]

Whenever an actor is asked to slip into a toga he sees it as an excuse to go all swivel-eyed and bonkers. When it comes to the Romans, no speech defect is too preposterous, no gait too far fetched. We’ve had Derek Jacobi with his clubfoot and his stutter, and Malcolm McDowell helping himself to every...

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When you buy a washing machine, does it ever cross your mind that the water could be injected into the drum a little more quickly, or that the spin cycle could be turbocharged in some way? No? Well what about your lawn mower? Ever thought of chrome plating the blades or supercharging the engine and ...

Yesterday, while I was visiting the shipyard I did something which looked ridiculous……….I tried to drive………………a Smart Car. Now I don’t know if you have seen these things in North America yet but here in Europe they are the must have accessory...

While I find it relatively easy to sit here and blog each day to all of my mates out there, sending photos and video to Stephanie to post …….well that’s another matter. The theory of a digital camera is really impressive. You take a photo and then download it into your computer. And once...

The hardest part of a diet is starting ……but I have and I admit I have found it as difficult as Paris Hilton would taking part in a 7th grade spelling test. However, as I ignored the gorgeous looking Italian bread and instead ate a bowl of muesli I knew that I was not alone as [...]

I just went through one of those life-threatening moments of laughter……..the sort where your brain starts to run out of oxygen and you think your head will explode………I will tell you why in a moment. Originally Heidi and I had planned to take a train from Naples to Genoa...

So here we are flying at 35,00 feet. Our Easy Jet Captain just told us that he was expecting bad weather over Germany but I don’t believe him. I generally find that weather forecasts are written by J.K. Rowling and if you want to know what the weather is, look out the window. However, Captain Easy...