Reasons To Be Cheerful

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This pic is taken on our travels to a wondrous part of the world. The only clue you get as to where is that predictive text called it ...

I've recently been reading the internet, in case you've missed it there's been some good stuff on it. One of my favourite part...

So an old British expression said to kids around bedtime is "going bobos" for going to sleep, now various sources around the inter...

Step right this way for another bit of Cockney rhyming slang. If you've ever seen your actual bona fide East End market stall (not the...

A recent point of interest on BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce Show has been about Cockney rhyming slang for shoes being "tea drinkers...

Beatles' producer George Martin had been producing comedy albums for EMI prior to working with The Beatles. He had worked with Peter Sel...

Being on one's tod is to be alone, this derives from Cockney rhyming slang. James Forman Sloan was known by the name Tod, born in 1874...

My knowledge of The Wombles is limited to the TV series of the 1970s and the songs of Mike Batt, I may have read the original novels written...

So Christmas is a busy time of the year for cardboard cut out policemen. Hopefully I'm not giving any security issues away. Given that...