Things I’ve learned from my brother. Charles Nathan Arnison 1971 – 2009. The waah game. This is where you ask someone a question to which the answer is blindingly obvious. If they take your question seriously then you say “waaah”, and basically you win. If, however, you spot a question designed to trap you then […]
Soft play – nothing soft or playful here
Things I don’t give a hoot about but really should
Inner children come out to play in the snow only not in a good way
Other things I’ve learned. They say that snow brings out the inner child, well that was certainly true in our street today. Where we live there’s generally plenty of space for everyone. The street was built before developers realised that if you rationed parking spots then you could wedge another house in. So, normally, we […]
Relative age, telly pioneer and a bad smell
Other things I’ve learned. Lionel Jeffries was six years younger than Dick Van Dyke who played son Caractacus Potts to his Grandpa Potts. Lionel died this week. John Logie Baird made the first long-distance television broadcast in 1927 from the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. The floors of the hotel are, apparently, still marked by […]