Last week I went to visit a prospective client. As in all such fact-finding meetings, I began by asking the team about the functionality…

I wasn’t born in 1964, the year Hollywood made the movie Seven Days in May, but curiosity compelled me to blow three quid to rent it on…

Back in 2107, Lloyd’s banned alcohol between 9:00 and 5:00. But the gnomes of Lime Street were only following a precedent set by…

I dipped in and out of an old Encyclopaedia Britannica to learn English when I was young. To my mind those oversized, mould-smelling books…

“That’s sick, papa,” my son said to me the other day. I thought I’d been reprimanded. When I asked what was nauseating about…

I imagine the whale had a happy but loud and scary kind of voice: “Come right, here little fish.I’m peckish. You’re small, but you’ll do…

Imagine arriving in 2025 from 1825, and encountering a golf cart. You would no doubt consider this four-wheeled marvel the most incredible…

When I was little, every year I told Père Noël what I wanted for Christmas. I made list, attested vehemently to my goodness over the year…

I downloaded a truly useful app the other day, one of the few that actually makes my life easier. I was about halfway through the weekly …