by P.G. Davies | Feb 20, 2023 | blog
Last night struggling to find anything to watch on TV, my wife and I plumped for ‘Cunk on Earth,’ a mockumentary or spook documentary series on the history of earth. Think of a history series like Simon Schama’s ‘A History of Britain’ with facts a minor consideration...
by P.G. Davies | Jan 21, 2023 | featured
There has been much angst in the Davies household. I inadvertently went to Ikea and made the serious man-mistake of taking the initiative. I had been told to buy paper napkins and bought white ones. I could not have been more wrong. After over 30 years of marriage my...
by P.G. Davies | Dec 29, 2022 | blog
A few days ago someone said ‘as smooth as a bag full of wet mice.’ A choice epithet and one so appropriate to the recent Harry & Meghan series: ultra-smooth and most probably one-sided. The never-ending royal saga, which is hyper-ventilating the world’s media,...
by P.G. Davies | Dec 14, 2022 | blog
Christmas Festivities We are at that time of year again, the festive season of goodwill, cheer, more parties and frothing mouths. The first cab off the rank for this merry season was lunch with my mother-in-law, her nearly nonagenarian friends and my wife. Just seven...
by P.G. Davies | Nov 21, 2022 | featured
Recently dining with a friend from Paris, we were through the main course and were starting cheese when she mentioned ball-sacks. There was of course a perfectly logical explanation as she needed to buy underpants for her eldest son, but then following her line of...