“Please be positive!”: no three words—apart from “I’m leaving you!”, of course, and the one involving the word beginning with the letter before M which will not be mentioned here—have such an emotive, punishing, smack-you-about-the-head effect. Be positive, you think to yourself, cursing this big-headed individual whose absurdity knows no bounds, what kind of stupid [...]

I had to smile when I read this Enigin Stories about how people always go over the top with their Christmas decorations on the outside of their humble abodes. There is nothing humble about the lengths that some people go to in order to make Blackpool Illuminations look like a forty watt bulb. The [...]

This article comes with a disclaimer: this is just how it happens with me; it’s not necessarily what will happen with you.
I found this out some years ago—it’s a very odd idea, but with me it works every time. It’s something that seems ridiculous, but has proven itself with me a thousand times or more. [...]

I filled my car up the other day – £55 for 50 litres of your basic unleaded, I never have understood why anyone would buy the “premium” and indeed have never seen anyone do it! It got me to thinking where all that money goes, which lead me on to a little mental arithmetic while [...]