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It’s the Real Thing…   Who can forget the finale to the epic series Mad Men. Was it just a nod to perhaps the the most famous advertising campaign of all time, that of Coca-Cola teaching the [...]

Druidic lore Almost as soon as the sun sets on the June summer solstice, some joker pipes up that the nights are drawing in and it’s only 160 shopping to Christmas and all that jazz. To make [...]

There’s a hole in my bucket As any decent gardener and Just Stop Oil protester will tell you: it’s all about the environment. There are two environments (and there is a link…eventually) that we [...]

Latin is one, as is the brain power required to complete a Sudoku puzzle. So too is the ability to play the Ukulele. Another might be a conjurer’s trick like my friend’s Magic Circle-member [...]

There have been a few worth noting, Flashman in Tom Brown’s School Days springs to mind. Draco Malfoy of Harry Potter fame is another. Bullies, of course, there’s a few about. We all love to see [...]

Cast your mind back to little you, aged about six, playing the card game Snap! with a favourite aunt or annoying older sibling. The utter delight of shouting the word first to win the hand. Do [...]

A long, long time ago… Well…over 20 years ago, there was an American company that wanted more than its fair share of the pie. It was stopped then by bold regulators, it’s quite possible its [...]

There have been some good impressionists, not of the painting genre, over the decades. Worth name-checking a few right here, right now. Who could forget Mike Yarwood, probably where modern [...]

Pandora didn’t have a box; she had a jar. Whatever, she got curious, it just sitting there and all, so she opened it allowing sickness, death, and a whole smorgasbord of other evils into the [...]

Outside the criminal law fraternity, it’s not widely known that handling stolen goods attracts double the maximum prison sentence over plain theft:14 years to theft’s 7. Not so much [...]