IT’S a sad confession, but my schoolteachers will remember that I was never any good at maths.
Arithmetic was always agony, geometry was grim, algebra always left me anxious – and trigonometry was simply terrible!
The sum total of my mathematical misery is something

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 .

JUST checking, but did I ever tell you the story of the B Hag?
No? Well, make yourself comfortable and grab a cup of tea because here goes . . .
What’s a B Hag? Well, don’t go down the road of imagining a

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

LET me be totally frank: I’m appalled, irritated, exasperated, wounded, infuriated, slightly tearful and a more than a little angry.
In short, I’m upset.
The lightning bolt news that Louis Rees-Zammit is quitting Rugby Union to try his hand at playing American Football came

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