Dark cherry 

We know how to eradicate lines and wrinkles using high-tech techniques. We know how to send a probe to another planet and crash it in to the surface (not that it does much good, of course, but you can’t say it isn’t an achievement). We also know how to build a machine that could potentially tell us the secrets of the galaxy, a machine that hurls particle beams in to one another so hard that some people are worried it Read the rest of this entry »

I’m warning you right now: if you possess ovaries, hair-less legs and an ability to multi-task while simultaneously using a phone, this might rub you up the wrong way. But still, it needs to be said: Leave Men alone will you? Not all men are a waste of space; some do know what an abdominoplasty is. But recently I’ve come across numerous articles stating just that. So I thought I better set the record straight, for all those men out Read the rest of this entry »

Advertising pop-ups are enough to make you hurl your lap-top (or whatever you happen to be holding at the time that anger strikes) through the window, aren’t they? You’ll be all excited one minute, booking the trip of a lifetime to see a safari and real live elephants and lions, and the next you’ll be hitting BOOK and a pop-up window will flash across the screen which dances about the place before, finally, five frustrating minutes later, threatening to shut Read the rest of this entry »

This article will cover some pretty serious ground, so I advise the reader to sit down and pay the strictest attention. You wouldn’t laugh at a funeral, would you? (Unless that was the dying person’s wish) So don’t laugh at this. What you are about to read is deadly serious. And as everyone knows, such a disclaimer as that can only be a precursor to an article concerning tea.

Tea respect is something which so many people overlook. There is Read the rest of this entry »

One of the first words I heard as a child was ‘meeting’, closely followed by the word ‘conference’. These words, although not holding much meaning at the age of four, stayed with me. At the age of six, upon suddenly learning what the words meant—while simultaneously discovering my appalling grasp of mathematics—fear shot through me as I discovered that usually meetings, numeracy and the dreaded C word are nine times out of ten horribly inter-linked. Ever since that day I Read the rest of this entry »