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I got a great email after the last diary. It said something like; tell whoever writes the diary to be less ‘verbose’. What a wonderful...

Ever since Athelred the Angry picked up a rock and bashed his enemy’s head in with it rather than break a fingernail mankind has been...

“I’m a project manager,” said the man confidently. “Your job seems to be taking a long time, perhaps I can give you a few tips.” Now then...

I once spent a morning with a high-falutin’ barrister from some stupidly expensive London chambers. I was due in crown court as an expert...

Yet another diary! I hear you say… Yes, and the last of 2012. We’ve had a good year in our little workshop with a great deal achieved....

Did you see Felix leap out of his space capsule and fall like a brick? I felt sick when he opened the door and my kids fell silent, their...

Yes, yes, yes… I know it’s been ages but it’s been a peculiar year. I’ve been driving a desk of late, something I promised not to do ever...

The car park was full of cops when I arrived. I threw my backpack over my shoulder, grabbed my laptop and slammed the boot. The hotel...

I asked a taxi driver the other night why the ball chasing fraternity wait for dark nights and crap weather to indulge their passion....

I’ve just spent two weeks herding two, cat-like children from shady spot to beer-bar beneath the scorching Mediterranean sun but it made...

At a kiddie’s party recently the missus asked if I’d like a drink and in a moment of nostalgia I asked for a can of Lilt, remembering the...

“Look at our shed…” My mate’s kids gasped in awe at what was, so far as I could tell, ordinary B&Q output complete with patchy woodstain...

Back in the day, American Indians were recruited to work the high-rise steelwork of a burgeoning Manhattan because they had no innate...

Well, here we are a year older as a nasty Arctic blast cuts through our workshop reminding us that the ball chasers have missed all the...

Whatever has happened to our milk? Remember when you were a kid and the milkman left bottles on the doorstep and on cold mornings you...

Have you noticed how difficult it’s becoming to buy proper light bulbs these days? All you’re allowed, it seems, is those eco-do-good...

Doesn’t it drive you absolutely bonkers when people say or do things without engaging their brain first? When they just blindly accept...

his coming October it’ll be ten years since I cautiously crawled down 140ft of rope provided by the navy in 1967 (we found it reaching...