Throughout my long and illustrious career at the bar, (a free packet of pork scratchings with a bottle of Stella...), I have triumphed on many an occasion by using the reasonable man defence in cases of negligence. I refer of course to Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Co (1856) 11 Exch 781 To refresh the memory of my fellow Rumpolds: Facts: The defendant had installed water mains in the street with...
January 2015
...or indeed my Camembert is past its sell by date... I am reversing back down by the wall that I was driven up...by an article in The Mail on Sunday, January 11 2015. Never did I think that I would be sharing emotions with the Guardianista fraternity/sorority (so as not to elicit the harpy-like wrath of Ms Toynbee), but Toby Walne (TW) has, I admit, irritated me greatly. The article focused on the...
A mixed bag of curiosities to pique the interest of @Twitter '#andanotheronegone', otherwise known as Cheshire & Co. I was intrigued to learn that some people are calling for 'gaming' to be considered an Olympic sport. In my opinion (and I am level pegging with Solomon on most things, although I might just edge him on Tottenham Hotspur, the back catalogue of Cliff Richard, the exact script of The...
In keeping with my Scottish and Northern friends, (trust me, I was up there during the festive season and it is b^&*dy freezing), I introduced the first-footing tradition (or a variant of) to many households in balmier climes i.e. Cwmbran. Gaelic tradition has it that the first footer should be male (that's me), tall (that's also me) and dark-haired (that was sort of me in the last century). The...
