At the London Ski Show back in October I bumped into fellow Yorkshire natives James and Gemma Greenway who invited me to visit them this winter at their business Green Mountain Chalets in St. Martin de Belleville, and earlier this week I finally got the chance to ski over from La Tania with my girlfriend [...]

My mornings are being ruined lately by the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2. The carrot topped one can be irritating at the best of times, but his manic promotion of the execrable Christmas single by the Military Wives is doing my head in – and that of my girlfriend Claire. So much so [...]

I guess that these days we all have our dress codes – indeed, come to think of it society has always been thus. Here in Pembrokeshire, for example, you’ll see everything from surf-style attire on the local beaches to the cheap trainers, baggy trackie bottoms, logo-ed sweatshirt and tats of the obese chavs of Milford [...]

My good colleague and fellow curmudgeonly northerner Mr. M. Axelby Esq recently informed me of the following notice he had observed whilst suffering the unfortunate experience, to use a fine phrase from that splendid movie ‘Withnail and I’, of finding himself ‘on holiday by mistake’ in Boscombe.

Said notice informs one and all that ‘Boscombe [...]

Many who read this blog – ok, the few who read this blog – will like me be keen winter sports enthusiasts who probably have various old, unused bits of kit lying around the loft, the shed or under the bed.

Old ski boots, old skis, gloves or hats you don’t use any more – [...]

Just take a moment, if you will, to read the paragraph at the end of this blog, which is the current long term weather forecast from the Met Office. I think even Dr Liam Fox MP would be hard pressed to come up with something more ambiguous.

What is the point of a weather forecast [...]

Today’s conundrum, my friends, is:

Who is the most despicable c++t? Dr. Liam Fox MP or Wayne Rooney, pug faced Premiership footballer?
It’s a difficult one, but to mix the languages of football and politics, at the end of the day let me make myself quite clear that the winner is…

Dr. Liam Fox [...]

Having lived in Wales for over twenty years I can with all honesty say I rather like the place – the scenery and the people are first rate, I’ve never experienced the age old English complaint of “and as soon as we all walked in the pub they all started talking in Welsh” (how do [...]

I recently got my hands – or rather my wrist – on a Trion:z wrist band – and you may well be wondering what the hell that means…

Well, a Trion:z (www.trionz.co.uk) is one of those magnetic therapy wrist bands that these days you’ll see being worn by everyone from lard arses like me to [...]

Is surfing the most creative and visually spectacular sport on the planet? Who knows, but rather than waste your time reading this drivel, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFRHgk6niIc to see a magical surf film/music collaboration between legendary surf film maker Jack McCoy and some muso bloke called Paul McCartney…

Meanwhile I’m off to the dentist…