Category Archives: Funny & Humour

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Changing with the tide – how newspapers reported Napoleon’s march on Paris

Posted on September 4, 2019 by

I was doing a bit of research on some French related history and the following made me smile so I thought I would share it. I don’t often write on French history (except for WW1 or my trips to Paris) … Continue reading →

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American perceptions on Britain from tourists.

Posted on August 14, 2019 by

Working with tourists every day, I often find out that they have some interesting observations or preconceptions about what it is like both in London and the rest of the U.K.  Here are a collection of very common comments that … Continue reading →

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When two (spaces) are better than one

Posted on June 5, 2019 by

I don’t know about you but there are countless things that annoy me about modern life and one of them is the slow decline into the use of a single space after a full stop or period. Until the early … Continue reading →

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National Sickie Day – Good and stupid reasons to take a day off work.

Posted on February 6, 2019 by

According to national statistics the first Monday in February is the day when people are most likely to pull a sickie. One of the factors attributed to this is the first payday since Christmas, meaning people have been out celebrating … Continue reading →

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For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry

Posted on January 7, 2019 by

The internet is always full of cat videos and cat memes and I thought I would try to raise the bar a little by bringing up the marvellous poem by Christopher Smart, a poet and mystic who led an eventful … Continue reading →

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Looking back at 2018 in cartoons

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

It’s tradition at the end of a year to look back at the events that we’ve lived through and I thought this year that I would do so with the use of political cartoons. It’s amongst the finest of British … Continue reading →

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A holiday from hell for two Russian murderers!

Posted on September 17, 2018 by

I’ve been on my fair share of nightmare holidays.  Sank on the Nile, cars blown up, marooned in a live mine-field… that sort of thing but even I haven’t had quite as rough a time as Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, … Continue reading →

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