THE BANK TILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!
I was queuing in my bank, waiting to deposit my winnings from the one-armed bandit in my local pub.
For those of you who don’t know, he’s a Brazilian named Pedro Gonzales and (as he’s

UNCLE CLEDWYN – THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE I KNOW.
“The Book Of Heroic Failures” by Stephen Pile was published in 1979 and became a No1 Best Seller.
I only read the first few pages because the bloke thumbing through a copy in WH Smith’s got

FED UP WITH THE WEATHER? BLAME NAMING STORMS!
The year 2024 barely started when we were battered by storm after storm – and according to those highly paid and sometimes highly irritating weather forecasters, in-between the storms, we’ve had heavy rain and wind.
Err .

TV COPS ARE ON THE PHONE MORE THAN ON THE BEAT
I intended telling you about the Olympic trampolinist who, immediately after his long-term girlfriend left him, married on the rebound.
But I’ve parked it in the layby of undeveloped articles, because I’ve created a

LESS NEWS WOULD BE GOOD NEWS
Breaking news!
I’m joking!
I just wanted to grab your attention . . .  like rolling TV news presenters do when the male and female duo (was that format hammered out through an act of Parliament?) become as bored

A HULLABALOO OVER WHO PLAYED WHO IN ‘ZULU’
You know by now I’m not a TV addict who watches soaps or ‘reality’ shows.
While I usually avoid anything with ‘Celebrity’ in the title, I recently watched one that made me laugh out loud –