It is very important to take stock of the year just passed. And so I do. I have come up with a list of ELEVEN things I have done this year. Not ten, ELEVEN. 1. Met some people off Twitter. 2. Ate a square burger in a pub under a motorway flyover n…

A PLUSH HOTEL SUITE, SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND… CHIEF EXEC: Well, Mr Di Matteo, Mr Keretsky, the owner, thinks you???re the man to take us into the Champions??? League. The job???s yours. DI MATTEO: Grazie, grazie! I won???t let you down. Call me Roberto. CH…

THE “minor bit” is incontestable, the “good luck” dependent on whether you are I or not. Essentially, I signed a contract with a TV production company to develop a sitcom pilot I have written. It’s very, very early days, and about a million things…

This was a blog post on my old Graham Bandage account. I have reposted it here because there is no law against it. — Who invented the names of fruit? I have often wondered. I imagine there was a Fruit Naming Board. And here I am, imagining it……

WHEN I was a young boy, I lived in a lovely Victorian end-terrace house. There was a park at the end of the road, which I frequently visited, and which I mentioned in my previous blog entry. This was, of course, in the days before paedophiles were…

WHEN I was six years old, I made a new friend called Matthew Small. It was an appropriate name at the time, but I expect it rankled when he was older.I was not one of those children one hears about these days with a garden. We had a yard with an o…

I HAD to go to the toilet in a motorway service station. I cannot say I enjoyed the experience.Probably this is intentional. These places are designed to process a lot of people. The proprietors don’t want chaps hanging around thinking, “Well, I h…