Category Archives: Funny & Humour

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Spitting Image is back!

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

It was announced last week that one of my favourite television programmes when growing up is to make a return. To people of a certain age, Spitting Image was an unmissable programme with up to 15 million people tuning in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool Britannia, Culture, Funny & Humour, Politics, television | Tagged Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, ITV, Politics, Puppets, Satire, Spitting Image, television | 2 Comments

Coronavirus Diary 2 – Goodbyes but no good grub

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

Yesterday I went out to see a friend. My new house is a total dump. An absolute pig-sty as we say in the U.K. No cleaning/bathing facilities, no toilet, damp in the floors electric wires everywhere and a near 200 … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny & Humour, Life | Tagged Coronavirus, Coronavirus Diary, CoronavirusUK, food, Friends, Hoarding, Panic Buying, Self Quarantine, Social Isolation, supermarkets | 4 Comments

A piss-poor history of urine

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

I’m going to try not to use the P word too much in this post, as tempting as it is as that would be taking the Pee but urine has actually had a long history of practical uses especially in … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny & Humour, history, Life, WW1 | Tagged Idioms, Medicine, Piss Poor, Straight from the Horse's Mouth, The Plague, Urine | 8 Comments

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

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

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 →

Posted in Funny & Humour, history, Life | Tagged Elba, France, Napoleon, Newspapers, Paris | 3 Comments

American perceptions on Britain from tourists.

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

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 →

Posted in Cool Britannia, Funny & Humour, Life, London, Travel | Tagged American thoughts on Britain, Differences on America and Britain, Funny, List | 12 Comments

When two (spaces) are better than one

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

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 →