Mar25th
Getting a toothache is no fun at all. And so it was when I got a rather sizeable one a couple of weeks ago. Needless to say, there was no other option than to visit the local dental surgeon to discover if he had any miracle cure up his sleeve. (more…)
Mar18th
Purity Soft Drinks, the UK family-owned soft drink manufacturer, recently hit the headlines when it was fined GBP9,000 and ordered to pay GBP2,376 in costs at West Bromwich Magistrates’ Court after failing to join a recycling scheme between 2004 and 2006. (more…)
Mar11th
Designer Oliver Blackwell apologised for being late when we met three years ago at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London. He was running late, he explained, due to the enormous amount of interest that certain other members of the press had expressed in his new invention - a machine called the WashIronDry. (more…)
Mar5th
When the tyres on the front of my car started to look as if they had seen better days, I took a little trip into the local tyre warehouse to have a new pair fitted. (more…)