I have a lot of ideas for pieces, and in many cases they don’t turn into full articles, and get buried in digital dust. I came across this next paragraph of an idea the other day. I quite like it but never fleshed it out and the moment has gone to some extent perhaps. Scotland…
I know what you must be wondering. What sort of things do I ponder when I’m not thinking about the markets? Well, I’m glad you asked. Three things are playing on my mind. Why do magpies sound like someone shaking a box of matches? Why do pigeons’ wings sound like they need oiling, and how…
It amazes me that people here are so absorbed by foreign politics but scarcely seem to engage with domestic politics at all. The Trump campaign is a classic example. I see countless retarded posts by Brits on Facebook saying things like “we’ve GOT to stop Trump getting elected”. I say retarded because, given the person…
Following my article last month on Covered Call Writing we had a request from a reader to recommend some brokers that offer the services required. I wouldn’t claim to have an in depth knowledge of all the companies in the market place, but I can simply say which companies I use myself. Of course there…
I expected the Rio 2016 opening ceremony to be a bit more Benny Hill than it was. Brazil is a country where gender stereotypes are revered. Femininity is celebrated, not denied like it often is here in Northern Europe. There’s a football league in the north east of Brazil where each team chooses a beauty…
My local pub has a movie night on a Monday. I saw a zombie movie there and I don’t want to ruin it but everyone dies at the beginning. I wrote last June about the phenomenon that was making the pub business very lucrative for those that were getting it right in terms of marketing…
I remember a joke from the ‘80s that went along the lines of: “Why don’t pixies get pregnant? Because they only go to goblin parties.” I mention that now as there is going to be a goblin coffee shop in Paddington. The Fellatio Café will open in Praed St it seems, and will be using…
Whether or not you have kids yourself, you almost certainly were one once. Birthday parties were something I looked forward to. You’d have your besties over on yours and hopefully they’d invite you to theirs. I hear that nowadays the PC brigade bullies parents into having their kids invite the whole class to avoid making…
There are all kinds of products available to help us achieve things beyond our capabilities. From aeroplanes to recreational drugs. One I became aware of recently is a pair of fake breasts that a father can wear, filled with the mother’s breast milk, to feed the baby, thus creating a bond that fathers don’t normally…
As seen in the latest issue of Master Investor Magazine It’s 100,000 years since the North Pole was ice free. The ice cap grows or shrinks on a daily basis, depending on the season, and you can watch it unfold if you want to at http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/, where they have a daily updated image of the…
