Because I am at that age I need to visit the dentist a lot.  I think it’s a bit of a con as I had all my teeth removed and full set of false teeth put in their place as a 21st birthday present.  My mother had shares in a company which

I have been to many gyms lately.  Several in the various hotels on my holiday where I managed to beat two US army officers at Jeopardy which was on the communal gym TV whilst we were all running.  I was particularly impressed with myself wh

In 1962, on a TV programme in America, on the cable station, W.A.N.K., weathergirl, Carole King, predicted the following: “It might as well rain until September” – well, she was bloody well right (as Supertramp predicted, on the sam

The old town looked the sameAs I stepped down off the trainAnd there to greet me was15 pints of bleedin' milk  

Baseball is big here.The US too, like England, is very much has a shirt-wearing culture.  Over here Lee, Ramirez and Rodriquez are the US baseball equivalents of Terry, Gerrard and Young Frank.  Or, if you’re reading this in Bavaria,

I don’t like the gaps in American public toilets.  Or “restrooms” as they are euphemistically referred to.  Although, having been in a few, I would not be tempted to rest a while in many of them.  They are also called

I always go on a city bus tour when visiting somewhere new.  Although saying that, I did go to Huddersfield earlier in the year and waited the best part of a week at a random bus stops for a tour bus which never materialised.  Having bought

Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde or Genghis Khan once said, “English is good language divided and spoilt.” Or something like that.It became very apparent that, although English is the international business language and still the major language in

Confident that having been a sixer in black six of the 3rd/14th Balham & Tooting Cubs did not constitute being associated with Nazi Germany, I can safely tick all the boxes marked “NO” on my “Welcome to the United States”