I am not really a coat person. I don’t like being muffled and winter coats I have tried on in the past have always felt like I was being suffocated with blankets. My staple has always been lightweight stuff, most recently a Paramo windproof, waterproof fleece. So, when the Lands’ End Wool Pea Coat arrived [...]

“UN nuclear monitors have advised Japan to consider expanding the evacuation zone around the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. An exclusion zone with a radius of 20km (12 miles) is currently in place but the UN says safe radiation limits have been exceeded 40km away. … … The US and UK earlier advised [...]

Have a great day today, celebrating the feast day of England’s patron saint, St Edmund The Martyr  

There it is, on the table, it is a chocolate cake, a good chocolate cake. There is only one piece left. You want it. I reckon there are four types of people. Selfish You want that last piece. The challenge is to persuade everyone else to let you have it. If the room is empty [...]

It is rare to find an item which is thoroughly awful in concept, tacky in execution and utterly ugly. But then, there is always The Range. This year, they are offering a 170cm Cascading Snow Tree – Black, a snip at £99.99. This ghastly piece of festive tat awaits you at your local store, or [...]