This year, Ramadan and Lent are going head to head, with the start of Ramadan falling on Shrove Tuesday – the day right before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. So they’re off, heading down the back straight as it were, competing for attention. Obviously, our leaders at Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster heard the outcry […]
I left the man cave twice on Wednesday to walk round the corner to my parish church. It was Ash Wednesday, so I went to the morning Mass to receive the ashes and back at midday – as I’ll do every weekday when I am in the UK – to take part in the Stations of The
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The man cave has been uninhabited for a while as I have been working in Italy. It was cold and wet, but I would far rather be cold and wet in Italy than in Hull. The food is better and so is the wine. And so is the Prime Minister. I have expressed my crush on Italian Prime Minister, gorgeous Giorgia Meloni, in
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There are many ways to describe Finding Harmony, the King’s earnest cinematic meditation on the state of the planet. Perhaps the most accurate is endless eco-drivel. The film opens in the usual manner: soft light; hushed voiceovers; and the sense that something profoundly important is about to be said. We are told about the great
Global warming is really taking its toll up here in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It’s freezing cold again and makes the actual man cave bearable only for the shortest of visits with the Dyson heater at full blast and as high a temperature as it is capable of. One of these days Mrs Watson
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I am sitting in the man cave besieged by a legion of brass monkeys, wearing two face masks and praying that my GP will not have run out of flu jabs before I can get down there and roll my sleeves up. We are entering – indeed we may already be in the midst of
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Once again, the man cave is in Italy. I wanted to title this one in Italian, to show how cultured and cosmopolitan I am, but apparently, there is no direct equivalent of ‘man cave’ in Italian. The nearest I could get was Dall’uomo delle caverne, meaning ‘from the caveman’, which I take as a compliment.
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One is back in Blighty and freezing one’s nuts off in the man cave. The temperature has dropped, and an ‘Orange Weather Alert’ was issued last night to ensure that we all knew that it was going to be cold. Seems that the government and their perpetual mouthpiece the BBC, seem to think that nobody
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The older I get the less I see the point in changing the clocks twice a year. Peter Hitchens has been ahead of the curve on this one for years saying that the effect, especially of the clock going forward and losing that precious hour of sleep in Spring, is akin to jetlag and is
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One has been absent from the man cave for ten days and my reprinted column in these pages from the Daily Sceptic on 20 October provides some insight. Mrs Watson and I have been in the United States, first for a week in Missouri and then a weekend in Washington DC. This was my first
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