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Visiting my hometown after having lived away for so long brought back memories of a different time and person. It also left me wondering whether my hometown has got rougher – an overwhelmingly large percentage of the population seemed to … Read more →

‘At least I have people to talk to when I go to work,’ Kate smiled when we finally managed to catch up on Skype. Kate is living in Australia for love and missing her friends back home. ‘By the time … Read more →

‘I’ve already got a book,’ Hot Danish said when he unwrapped his birthday gift from a distant relative. ‘Oh good – it’s in English. I can read it,’ I said when I saw the cover: The Price of Inequality by … Read more →

Even in our mollycoddled northern European hemisphere, we encounter near-death experiences on a regular basis. My boss has plenty of near-fatal stories, ranging from a close encounter with a glass table recently, when he fell off a ladder and landed … Read more →

America seems to hog the limelight as far as road trips are concerned. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider and Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited are perhaps the most famous celebrations of the American ideal of … Read more →

During a recent WLL interview with award-winning chef, British food expert and owner of Kensal Green’s Parlour, Jesse Dunford Wood, he revealed he enjoys nothing more than eating at a greasy spoon on his day off. Another chef once admitted … Read more →

Claudia Winkleman recently admitted she takes daily naps. I used to too, when I worked from home. It wasn’t that I catnapped on the job; I would just move to the bed when most people were commuting. I’d set my … Read more →

‘Oh no – that doesn’t sound good,’ was how my mum reacted to news that she would be receiving a small windfall. It wasn’t that she was expecting more; she just hadn’t understood a word of the solicitor’s email that … Read more →

Just as the average person thinks s/he is of above average intelligence, the average person no longer wants to do average things, mix with average people and, well, be an average Joe.

It’s the reason @GS Elevator, despite the … Read more →

There’s a lot you can do with a pompous email. An email gives you time to consider your response or you can circulate it through social media.

For stand-up material, a comedian friend uses an email he received from an … Read more →