Colonel Irrelevant

or Windpocken as they say in German. What fun it is to see your youngest get randomly ill then watch as spots appear. The best part is knowing that the kid has been infectious for 2 – 3 weeks before any symptoms appeared meaning that almost everyone he has been in contact with could be [...]

It just may be that the IPL is the game to make cricket a world-wide game. Twenty/20 is fantastic entertainment. Every ball counts, every run, every stop, every wicket. It’s all energy and excitement and great TV or live entertainment. Bringing the best International players together makes for great entertainment. Include massive crowds and its [...]

Dusseldorf and Birmingham are both having renovation work done. Very impressive if not entirely needed. I suppose we’ll have greater retail opportunities which is hardly welcome … And then there is Heathrow. Terminal 5 looks magnificent but Heathrow only really functions properly at bout 80% capacity and can’t consistently manage the 95% that it normally [...]

Oh what fun it was on Friday night. Late night radio is always a little random. More so when it’s 5 Live or Kerrang. 5 Live opens the airways to all kinds of strange people and lets them say things that the Beeb would normally avoid whereas Kerrang seems to like trying to shock but [...]

Here’s a question: Does 300 quid sound like a lot of money for a hospitality buffet, beer, wine and skittles at Wembley for the Chargers v New Orleans game? 3 hours before, 1 hour after plus 3 hours of play starts to make it look reasonable – especially if I get thirsty! Maybe I could [...]

Arrive in Budapest after a fraught trip (short connection and no bus ready at the arrival stand). I am met by a man standing way over me, and big. I mean, BIG. Offering me a taxi ride – he’s an independent with a badge so maybe. At his shoulder is a shorter, nastier, bald brute [...]

I like Dave Gorman – he makes me laugh. Which is a good thing, really. His new book, abut an attempt to travel across the USA avoiding giving money to The Man is a great read. Buy it, you’ll like it!

Ice cream shops in Germany Unusual flavours including Woodruff Turds in gardens Condom machines outside public toilets Volvo estate with pants tied to aerial Same car driven by back patched biker-type Same car containing a war hammer, mace and fancy axe thing

I flew to Munich this morning and had the dubious privilege of reading the Daily Mail. I was quite upbeat (given that the alarm didn’t go off) but reading the paper makes you fel dirty and depressed! They had a good dig at the Olympic Torch trogging through London yesterday. The situation in Tibet is [...]

It looks great, and warmer weather plus snow is a bonus but seriously, it’s April. We had snow at Easter and now we’ve had it on the foirst weekend in April. Good for photgraphs, not so good for gardening!