The clocks changing is always a confusing time of year. Even if I can remember the Americanised mnemonic of ‘spring forward, fall back’, I’m not too proud to admit that I have to look up what that exactly means every ti...
An estimated six billion packets of crisps are eaten annually in the UK, which sounds like a lot, but that’s only 86 packets each a year, or one packet every four days..! If you, like me, are consuming far more than you...
“If I were a rich man…” There’s no argument: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is one of the greatest musicals of all time. “….Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum.” The iconic 1964 musical, which spawned a beloved 1971 f...
Edinburgh Airport has become the first airport to end the long-standing 100ml liquids rule. Introduced in 2006, after a foiled attempt to smuggle liquid explosives on transatlantic flights, it meant that only liquids, p...
I’m of an age where I can just about remember a world where the internet didn’t occupy every part of society—from my friendships to my fridge. Growing up alongside the World Wide Web (which felt more like an online Wild...
You’ll never see a hurricane tear through Britain. Hardly ever experience a blizzard. Or rarely endure a severe drought. What you’ll get is some of the world’s most unpredictable mild weather imaginable. Sunshine and ra...
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! A seventh series of ‘Peaky Blinders’ is, according to The S*n at least, due to start filming this summer. The BBC want new…...
I can’t be the only one who’s had to endure countless bus trips listening to some kid’s terrible taste in music played out through their terrible mobile phone speakers. Do I ever say anything? No, because even in my 30s...
Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. We all know who they are. They’re Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. And I couldn’t imagine anyone else as them, could you? But, hate it or love it, HBO is pu...
It never rains in Southern California, but that’s usually all it ever does here in Edinburgh. Living in a country that receives the fifth[/trackLink] “least annual sunshine hours” in the world, you get pretty used to se...
