It seems that a home brewing is a rite of passage/mid-life crisis most men will experience at least once, and if they’re lucky, the only time they’ll ever have to encounter yeast. Yes, I even repulsed myself. Most have heard tales of a brewing disaster: exploding bottles in the middle of the night that sound like [...]

I’m one of those folk whose sleep is hindered perpetually by the full moon. I mightn’t be part werewolf (although my leg hair suggests the contrary), however, the minute that big shiny disk hovers in the sky I can be certain that I won’t be sleeping. Thank goodness for red wine. Why, just the other night after a [...]

The way the youth of today are taught, it’s surprising they have ever attended an educational institution at all. The definitions of ‘you’re’, ‘your’ and ‘yore’ are always bothersome; and as for ‘two’, ‘to’ and ‘too’, well it’s almost a lost cause. No wonder we have school shootings. From first-time author, Ross Horsley, his blog-turned-book My [...]

What was the last lie you told? Was it when you told your housemate you had no idea who ate his home-grown butternut pumpkin (the one he’d lovingly cultivated for three months)? Was it when you told your partner they were and/or are the sole human occupant of your sexual fantasies? Or was it when [...]