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Modern Art Is Great After All

Is it just me or does no one else understand modern art either? I once walked into a contemporary art gallery and spent about an hour trying to work out why anyone would want to spend an hour in such a place. I was also always astonished at those stories in the UK press about artists being paid tens of thousands of pounds to kick a can down a street or to pour yoghurt onto.

Look! No Hands

Have you read some of the stuff about driverless cars lately? It seems that the good people at Google want to change the laws in California so that they can recklessly mow people down with their crazed invention without any legal problems (I think that’s the gist of it although I could be slightly mistaken). Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond (don’t you just hate that expression?) the chaps at Oxford University want.

Creative in the Kitchen

Do you hate cooking? I can’t say that it is something which I hate but I have to confess that my cooking skills are less then earth shattering. Maybe instead of giving up I should try and get more creative instead. Could I arrange for some premium lobster dining at home? I am not sure that a plate of boiled crustacean is really my bag of fun but I guess I could give it a.

Living the Carnaval

It is carnaval time here in South America. Woo hoo. It’s all great fun except for, well, the fact that it isn’t. Not to me at least. The idea of throwing water filled balloons at other grown adults and dancing in the rain while horrible music plays just isn’t a lot of fun to me. I don’t want to seem like a spoilsport though, so here are some ideas for Carnaval 2014. For a start.

Get a New Sport

I once had the smart idea of combining football and golf to come up with a whole new game. The problems started when I smacked a friend in the leg with my 6 iron. I guess I should have looked at a different way of combining the two sports in one. Anyway, what other sports could we revitalise by combining them with something else? What about mixing basketball and copper gutters? Actually, I hate basketball..