There was a young launderette from Hackbridge…

The limerick form can be traced back several hundred years is normally satirical or downright rude. According to Wiki, Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick, as a folk form, is always obscene. (more…)

Whilst in our local last Friday, we got to talking about pub games and the more we talked, the more games we realised we knew. There are so many pub games across this diminutive island of ours, all different shapes and sizes and often with dedicated league players and supporters. For example, Steph’s from Bedfordshire where there’s a big Hood-Skittles movement. (more…)

This week is all about the best compliments, so please excuse the back handed compliment above. Cymbal please, bud dum tschhhhh.
Jo told me over lunch that Men’s Health has done a survey to find out the top 10 compliments that their readers love to hear.  According to science (yes science can be sociological) 90% of men would like to be complimented more by their partner.

Here they are:

“Your arms are definitely looking bigger.” (more…)

We are a creative bunch; must be all the rainy days, but hobbies are a curious pursuit. I don’t mean things like yoga or book-club, but fiddly pernickety things like model-making, building ships in bottles and creating tens of metres of track for teeny-weeny trains. (more…)