Eating alone has had some bad PR. For decades, centuries, it has been regarded as a symbol of failure. People have sniggered and sneered, mocked and maligned. Popular culture is littered with characters whose desperation, loneliness or unpopularity has been portrayed through scenes of them eating alone. The idea that
Read → November 19, 2020
Tuesday has no mercy; it is tiring and demanding. It is one of mankind's great unsolved mysteries - how to deal with Tuesday. Until now.
Read → August 20, 2020
I had an argument with a woman I didn't know about pizza vouchers she didn't buy me.
Read → January 14, 2020
It’s Tuesday morning and I have woken up to a puzzling email.
Read → November 29, 2019
Bill Bailey joined me on the BBC recently to talk about his new tour, gigging, mental health and Freddie Star...
Read → June 11, 2019
It is Thursday and the world is crumbling around me Up to now, the day had passed with relative ease. I had taken the tram to a meeting. I had read about the impending destruction of the human race in a free newspaper I found on the seat beside me.
Read → May 08, 2019
I am cooking dinner and there has been a potato disaster.
Read → March 05, 2019