I love cows, as I was recently reminded when I made my annual visit to a steak restaurant in Portugal called Wolf. I hardly ever go to steak restaurants – you could call it a rare occurrence – [...]
This week’s word is late in coming to you for one very good reason: I’ve been distracted. You know when you get a hair stuck in the back of your throat and you can’t shift it? [...]
To steal from the wit of John Cooper Clarke, “I don’t normally do requests unless I’m specifically asked for them.” Well, someone did. We were just drinking up after [...]
There are certain subjects you should avoid if you want to maintain harmony in the room. Politics and religion are the classic examples. In my office, we’ve come to a collective [...]
Around about this time last week, a fly flew into the office. Not a remarkable occurrence for an August morning, you might think, but like the beating of a butterfly’s wings, it triggered a [...]