In a summer that's been obsessed by the football World Cup I finally get my little oasis of pleasure with the best sporting spectac...

* A British Institution, often maligned and taken for granted, this week this pillar of our society turned 70. I thought I'd look how...

Nineteen years ago this very day Morticia, for reasons only known to her, agreed to marry me.

Proms are a relatively new phenomenon in the UK, a product of the American influence of TV and films. Prior to 2000 you might be lucky to...

You'd have to have been living in a cave to realise that there is a little football tournament going on known as the World Cup.

Most people who commute by bike have to carry some sort of luggage with them. Be it a change of clothes, a uniform, sandwiches or even to...

I left school 31 years ago. I remember it well. There was no fanfare, no prom (we didn't have such things back then) no gathering or ...

Time is a commodity I don't have loads of at the moment. When I do get a precious moment I am so tired I don't feel like doing an...

The first of the Grand Tours is the Giro d'Italia, basically the Tour of Italy. I love bike racing and especially love the spectacle ...

A few of years ago my position at work was put 'at risk'. Then came the dismantling of my department and the merging with another...