Before you buy a house, you will hear old wives’ tales and made up statistics about how it’s the most stressful thing you can do in life.
Pah, you may say. I buy stuff all the time. Hell, I even bought a car/three-seat sofa/plasma TV/holiday and that cost multiple thousands of pounds. No way can buying [...]
When e-readers first became a thing, they were pretty easy to write off as a needless technological gimmick that people would grow to regret buying, like 3D TVs. But, in the manner of a particularly robust terrier, they’ve refused to relinquish their grip on the old sock that is popular culture.
2010 was (arguably) the year [...]
Knitting is brilliant, and – as I discovered – there’s no better teacher than the internet. If you don’t already know how, you should let the worldly wise web teach you. Here’s how I did it:
Like a lot of people, I first learned to knit at my mother’s knee. I was probably about seven the [...]
…to a blog post of a picture and nothing more. I am a walking contradiction.
Sure, it’s all basically advertising but my feet yearn for these cuddly knitted Nikes, they look so comfy.
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“TLDNR” is a sign of everything that’s wrong with the internet; it marries poor grammar with downright rudeness and implies that any piece of writing over a screen’s length is not worth the effort of reading. An acronym coined by the kind of moron that hangs about online with nary a good word to say about anyone, TLDNR stands for ‘too long did not read’.
It has come to my attention today that everyone hates Stephen Dorff.
What is up with that?
He has many fine films to his name, including Blade (actually, I didn’t like Blade all that much) and, er, that Britney Spears video (hey, it was emotional! She tried to kill herself in the bath! Guys!). Ok, actually he [...]
Here’s what international silver-fox Keith Murray from We Are Scientists has to say about iPads and mobile phones and whatnot:
As a band we reject the iPad. We’ve picked them up at the Apple store and then immediately put them down again. It’s just an oversized iPhone that you can’t make phonecalls on. And [...]
I inherited this copy of Romeo and Juliet from my gran who died earlier this year. On the first page she dated it January 1942, when she would have been 20 years old. And here I am, 68 years later, reading through it and feeling a connection with Gran through nothing more than paper, ink [...]
Vampires in the bedroom and why Buffy, Bella and co are surely kidding themselves. Also any excuse for an R-Patz photo.
At the risk of going all ‘I feel blue! Look at me! Look at me!’, this clip from Amelie adequately illustrates how I’ve been feeling lately. Wish it would stop.