It’s the night of witches and ghouls and all things scary.
And pumpkins.
To celebrate tonight, a poll was recently conducted to find what people think is the scariest movie. Top of the list was The Exorcist.
Never seen it. Never want to. I’ve also never watched The Omen; any of the Nightmare on Elm Streets; Chucky (the [...]

Well, I’m back. As you can see.
Kos was nice… in a Greeky way. Being close to the end of season, the weather was a bit cooler than the wife had been hoping for - “It’s bloody freezing!” - but 23 degrees suited me just fine.
And I still returned with a bit of a tan.
So, what [...]

On the drive in to work yesterday morning, I was crawling round the M25 when I spotted blue flashing lights in my rear-view mirror. They were a fair way back but seemed to be nearing quite fast as they pushed their way through the traffic.
When they caught up with me, I pulled over to allow [...]

“I’ve just had the most awful dream,” said Mrs Masher, blearily descending the stairs.
“Oh dear,” I said, “What was it about?”
“It was about you. You left me. You went off with some woman called Suzy.”
“Was she a looker?”
“Fuck off! It was a horrible dream. It really upset me.”
About an hour later, she was getting ready [...]

The morning journey to work is generally commuting nightmare, as I mentioned here recently.
One of the things that is supposed to help alleviate the problems, is the traffic news given out on the local radio. By forewarning you of potential holdups, you are able to choose a different route and therefore not add to the [...]

Back in the Eighties, football duties were not the most enjoyable thing to do.
Football hooliganism was at it’s height and visiting supporters had to be escorted en masse from the train station for the 20 minute walk to the stadium. And back.
To be fair, most of them were OK and would chat happily with you [...]

“Are you on Facebook?”
“No, I’m not,” I replied, for the upteenth time,” I’m forty-six.”
It seems that almost everyone I know is on bloody Facebook or MySpace or Bebo or some other ’social networking’ site.
And not one of them has been able to give me a valid reason for signing up to it. “What’s it all [...]

As a scientist, people have often asked me for my thoughts on the health implications of mobile phones.
I usually tell them that there are others that are better placed to answer that question and they haven’t been able to come up with a definitive answer one way or the other. But, as mobile phones operate [...]

When I used to travel into London by train, just earlier this year, it used to amaze me just how poor our rail network was.
Trains were invariably late, often cancelled and always overcrowded. But I didn’t mind too much as it was still the easiest way for me to get to work.
But now, as there [...]

It’s a little known fact that I invented the Sony Walkman.
Obviously, that’s not actually true.
But, folklore has it that the highly popular little tape playing device came about when one of the Sony factory workforce was spotted wearing a Sony cassette deck that he’d stripped down to its bare minimum and had clipped to his [...]

Doing the washing up last night, I noticed that we had changed from our regular brand and now had a new flavour of washing-up liquid: Pink Grapefruit and Garden Mint.
What’s that all about?, I wondered. Who the hell wants their pots and pans to smell like pink grapefruit and garden mint, FFS?
Me, I’m quite happy [...]