by fwordsblog | Aug 22, 2011 | Humour
While driving through a village in Cornwall at the weekend, I saw the prime minister walking along the road. As you do. Kim, who was driving, was excited beyond belief; she was already on Cameron alert because she’d read in the papers that he was planning to visit...
by fwordsblog | Aug 15, 2011 | Humour
Conversation in the steam room tonight threatened for a while to be almost intelligent, with an interesting discussion about website development, but it descended into its usual levels of inanity when I mentioned I’d been to Climping at the weekend and someone asked...
by fwordsblog | Aug 4, 2011 | Humour
Much joy and self-congratulation as I completed the transfer of my old website to its new home at WordPress. This might not sound like a huge achievement – a 12-year-old could set up a WordPress site and many probably do – but there was an element of back-room...
by fwordsblog | Jul 27, 2011 | Humour
While the egg robbers and the bacon thief were about their dirty work (see previous post), another comical food-related incident was taking place, this time at a service station on the M4. Striding happily through the foyer while taking a break on his way to a...
by fwordsblog | Jul 25, 2011 | Humour
Thirteen people were arrested last week following a burglary at a farm in Surrey. The occupants of five cars broke into the farm and pinched several dozen trays of eggs. According to the police statement, they proceeded to throw eggs at the building before making...
by fwordsblog | Jul 18, 2011 | Humour
What started out as only an averagely tedious conversation about toast, prompted by Rory admitting he’d achieved nothing all day – apart from painting a bit of the ceiling and watching it dry – other than get up and eat breakfast, plumbed new depths of banality...