Seeing as Christmas is just around the corner and pretty unavoidable, here is an assortment of our Christmas crackers and crappers… Christmas Crackers 1. Mince pies and sock replenishment 2. Wearing ridiculously giant fur hats and going traipsing out into the cold 3. Mulled cider and all its warming goodness 4. Xmas jumpers 5. AnimalsContinue Reading

A few things getting our brain neurons all fired up… 1. Superfluous amounts of plaid shirts… 2. Waiting for the new Tron film. Still. 3. £4.70 a pint in the local – never heard of the recession? 4. Stuart threatening Owen’s sovereign desk space with empty packets of crisps and assorted junk 5. People whoContinue Reading

The month when biting insects are most abundant, is the month we call July. Not big, not clever, not liked. Nor are these… 1. Cycle Couriers moving at high speeds through red lights 2. The stupid entrances to Oxford Street Tube being closed at home time (read: ALL THE TIME) 3. Carrying bags in hotContinue Reading

And here are a few that clouded our joy… Like volcanic ash or something… 1. People wearing sunglasses on the Tube. There’s no sun in there folks. Or joy. Or smiling 2. Rain. It’s May now. May = summer. You’ve had your lot now, so jog on and bring on the sunshiiiiine 3. Glee. ThereContinue Reading

According to an Iranian chap called Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, exposed bodies/flesh are at the forefront of What to Blame for Earthquakes. We thought that it was Nature – our unpredictable and occasionally vengeful mistress – who brought about the shudders, but according to Sedighi “Many women who do not dress modestly…lead young men astray, corruptContinue Reading