Lay My Hat

Sorry to hear your news Tazman. Best of luck in the future.

Thanks Big Sis. a good article, I used to enjoy family holidays in Cornwall but they were never cheap. The ambition of most Cornish people seems to be to own a car park. Also the point, for me, about holidays in the UK is that one could take the family dog. No longer possible on most of Cornwall's b...

The Blairs might like it.

My wife tells the story about one of her friends - a great freedom of information campaigner. When she visited her dentist she demanded to see the computer records they had of her. The dentist took her through what was on screen. Finally she pointed at a C written against her name "Why don't yo...

I got fired this month. I am not that unhappy about it as eighteen months ago the company had made me part-time and just wanted me to do new biz. I didn't like this role as it is hard to get-up in the morning and say 'woopeee, I have got to do some part time new biz'. I have spent the rest of my car...

I fail maths tests any time of the day.

Holiday Ray - it used to be said that then a daughter was born to a French farmer, that he would plant a stand of trees. The idea being that they would provide her with a dowery when she was old enough to be married.

We were booked on Sunday's 3.30 pm Eurotunnel, we prefer this way of going as it is easy on our dog/cat/ferret (as he hates being called). Tried repeatedly to phone the Eurotunnel helpline and ask what was happening, no reply, but hey this was at le weekend in France. When we got to the Eurotunnel t...

Point about the rant is that it is an all-purpose cut 'n' paste rant. Rocco and I have heard several versions of it... Anyway another quote... “In England shops are normally open, and in France they are normally shut. When they are open the lights may be out and you bang on the door to get in. Marke...

It’s not usual to hear my wife laugh out loud whilst reading (normally she reads the Booker Prize short list type books for fun). However she was trying my ‘Narrow Dog to Carcassonne’ by Terry Darlington when I heard the unusual sound. Monica, Terry’s wife, was having a go at Terry and Jim the whipp...

There is an end of the splendid beach at La Palmyre (near the zoo) reserved for those folk without clothes. When I was at school I would have thought that this would have been an interesting place. In those days my image of nudists was Bardot plus a beach ball minus anything else. However judging by...

Our lurcher is not really interested in food, he has been known to go three days without bothering - but he is a serious pudding hound. Particularly if the pudding has cream or custard on it even milk or joghurt. He circles the table like a shark at pudding time or else retreats to be near a kitchen...

You could try Circus, 1 Upper James Street W1F 9DF (020 7534 4000), off Golden Square. It ihas nothing circusy about it in that it is chic moden rather than having English charm like the Savoy. If you want 'old English faded Edwardian charm' try Rules, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, WC2E (0207 836 5314...

I saw a cartoon recently of a fairytale princess gazing at a shoe...

caption: "Forget the prince" thought Cinders, "I am in it for the slippers".