I’m a sucker for a good zombie book, and while my zombie based reading is mostly in comic form (The Walking Dead), one book in particular stood out for me this year, being a completely different take on the standard zombie tale. This is a love story, told from the point of view of a [...]
2011 has been a strong year for both British and American TV, with some outstanding comedy, and some other, much darker stuff as well. I’ve written a bit about my particular highlights here. For me though, one show stood out above the rest for sheer enjoyment, and it was Trollied, on Sky1. The first sitcom [...]
Being as 2011 is drawing to a close, I figured I’d follow convention for once and start rounding up all my favourite things from the year. To start with, I thought I’d go with television, and give you a brief description of some of the things that I liked most on the tellybox this last [...]
So, this year is drawing to a close, and I thought I’d inflict on you some of the highlights of my year. Then I realised the general highlight was winning £12.80 on the Euromillions, and I’ve managed to impart that knowledge in the space of one sentence. So instead, I’ve decided to write a bit [...]
Top 10 – Movie Deaths (Part 2)
Following on from part one of my Top 10 Movie Deaths, here’s the rest of the countdown, from 5 to 1. 5. Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future- This is a movie death that serves as a bit of a shock. Why kill off one of the main characters right at the beginning [...]
I’m a sucker for a good zombie book, and while my zombie based reading is mostly in comic form (The Walking Dead), one book in particular stood out for me this year, being a completely different take on the standard zombie tale. This is a love story, told from the point of view of a [...]
This week. For me, this week has been a very strange one. In all honesty, I’m not sure I’ve been living in the same world I did seven days ago. In some slightly odd circumstances, I made my way the few miles up the road from my house, to Nantwich, a Cheshire border town, where [...]
Have you noticed in recent years, just how difficult it is to be a man in these enlightened modern times? I have. I sometimes feel like I spend my time literally lurching from one potentially embarrassing situation to the next, often without pause for breath in the middle. Like the other night, when I inadvertently [...]
