I was shocked to hear, 32 minutes after I published my article, Stephen Fry claim that, each Christmas, we use enough wrapping paper to gift-wrap Guernsey! Well, the BBC has a requirement, as a public service broadcaster, to inform and educate us. No wonder people claim GCSE and A Level standards are dropping when we […]
Manchester City Council reports that each Christmas in the UK we use 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper. They also add that this is enough to gift-wrap Guernsey. I happen to know that Guernsey has an area of roughly 78 square kilometres. So, if we are provided with these 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper […]
On the 13th of December I was visited by a delivery man bearing a large box. I ripped it open and discovered it was a fruit tree, a pear by the looks of it. The delivery guy looked up from his clipboard and informed me that originally my package was also accompanied by a partridge, […]
Just a note: I was amazed that “leg terminator” was given as a definition for “foot”.
I received a telegram only moments ago from my good friend Lord Maurits Cerbishly.
Dear Robert,
A good start, I felt.
Do you have any idea if penguins tap-dance? And, if so, do they also while away the hours singing 1970s pop songs […]
I was contacted by telephone a few days ago by a person identifying themselves as Ms R Goss, who told me “A certain high street store will be sending it’s delivery lorries over 6.8 million miles delivering presents this Christmas.” I was not particularly interested with this statistic until “That’s the equivalent of 14 trips […]