ONLY in the household of a veterinarian is it normal to have a coffee table littered with magazines bearing pictures of unpleasant medical conditions in horses, cows, rabbits etc.Read
MY ARTICLE about World Book Night a few weeks ago netted quite a response from readers, who either offered me books or advice on which of the 25 titles to read.Read
AFTER I mentioned World Book Night last week, reader Christine Smith emailed to offer me a copy of ‘Stuart – a life lived backwards’ by Alexander Masters, which was given to her by a friend.Read
MY YOUNGER colleagues think it’s highly amusing that some of us at The Examiner are so old we can remember the days when journalists bashed out their stories on a typewriter and sent them off to be cast in hot metal.Read
THE Chinese consider the number four to be unlucky because their word for it, si (pronounced something like sir, but not quite), is similar to the word for death.Read
THERE has been an allotment-related disaster this week, largely related to the fact that I have never seen patience as a virtue and planted out a shed-load of seedlings three weekends ago.Read
