Rants

Streets For People
Much as I admired the calm common sense of the WPC who took no nonsense from some ‘offended Moslems’ in the East End: Offended

Lent Mubarak!
This year, Ramadan and Lent are going head to head, with the start of Ramadan falling on Shrove Tuesday – the day right before Lent

From the Man Cave XXVII
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

From the Man Cave XXVI
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

Harmony at Last
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

From the Man Cave XXV
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

From the Man Cave XXIII
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

From the Man Cave XXII
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

From the Man Cave XXI
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