Would you do it today? I suspect you probably wouldn’t.
Around 25 years ago I left a small, sleepy village in mid-Norfolk, UK, just after midnight, with 45 young teenagers and two other colleagues, and headed for Gatwick airport. We tried to sleep on the journey, and failed miserably. At some point in [...]
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Posted in Humor, Humour on Sep 6th, 2007
These are the important lessons I learned on a recent holiday trip abroad:
1. However much time you allow yourself to get to the airport in good time, it will never be enough to account for the civil servants who chose your departure day and time to dig up the main road into the airport causing [...]
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Posted in Humor, Humour, Language, Society on Aug 9th, 2007
On the worst day I had four telephone sales calls in one morning. No madam, I do not believe you when you tell me that I have been selected to win an amazing free holiday (that just requires me to pay a small fee and sit through a time-share presentation in another city). No sir, I do [...]
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