Despite my bad back, I did a fingertip search for the pill I dropped on the floor. I eventually found and swallowed it – having first blown off the dust. After all, medicine is money here. One friend looked forward excitedly to...
Read MoreI nearly missed seeing the Statue of Liberty from the deck of the QE2 while cruising into New York harbour years ago. I’d risen before 5am to see her and was excitedly waiting when cries of “Liberté ici!, Liberté ici!” from a...
Read MoreWhen Starbucks announced it would sell wine and craft beers during the evening at some US branches, you would have thought it was opening brothels, not bottles. One critic said the company was ‘normalising the drinking of...
Read MoreMy friend Edgar saw a UFO while sipping wine and enjoying the cool night air on his porch in Bellflower, California, in 1968. He waved. Recently, over a glass of malty Negra Modelo beer, he told me how the square craft had...
Read MoreWhere there’s muck there’s money. A film shoot was going on in our street and the crew paid us to let them squeeze the lavatory trailer onto our drive. We were also recompensed for allowing them to film a scene on our front...
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