Losing control
Outside the USA, it’s an almost universally held notion that Americans are rude. It’s probably a belief prompted by people’s experiences of relatively elderly US tourists who plod their way around cities and landmarks weighed down by impossibly large cameras and an equally sizeable belief that the world would shudder to a halt without Americans [...]
The winning number
When I was a mere young pup (well, about 12 at least), an official looking envelope arrived for me through the postmail one morning. Given that the only things that ever arrived with my name on them were birthday cards containing book tokens, I opened the letter with equal measures of excitement and fear. Had [...]
Happy New Year
Watching the countdown to midnight shows as we played games and chatted last night, I was struck once again by the difference in scale between the UK and the US. In Britain, the New Year’s Eve shows generally feature Angus Deayton or that woman from Hear’Say. Maybe you’ll get a performance from Daniel O’Donnell or [...]
