Another PC World complaint

Another PC World complaint

I decided to buy a flatscreen TV with my £100 vouchers from PC World after Lord Kalms took up my complaint following the poor service of their Tech Guys. I have just discovered that the one I bought, and was told by their staff would be perfectly suitable, an...
On the road to manhood

On the road to manhood

I love surprising people, and yesterday I surprised my 17-year-old son David by collecting him from the railway station after school with L plates on my car. He was to drive home. David couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel. We zig-zagged around the car park a...
Plastic bags don’t grow on trees

Plastic bags don’t grow on trees

Banning plastic bags is one of my pet subjects, a topic close to my heart after researching and writing an academic paper on this subject. So I’m delighted to read that China, a great provider of plastic goods, is in fact banning free plastic bags, those horrid,...
Losing my cleaning lady

Losing my cleaning lady

I hope I don’t get any unexpected visitors over the next day or two. My cleaning lady has given up the mop for a new job and it has left me in a bit of a dither. Pat helped me out for four years and became a friend, and before that Nicky took care of my domestic...